Whew that was fun!!

Well back to reality. Arriving in Vegas yesterday at 9:00 was to say the least a necessary evil. Its back to the grind for another 4 months before another time away from this town. But enough of that you may be asking "How was Cancun you gloating bastard"?

Let me first start off by saying that Mexico is well Mexico and you either love it or hate it. We begin our arduous journey Friday night at 10:45 in the PM. Which is always a joy. But wait we are supposed to leave at 10:45 but due to FAA regulations the crew must take a mandatory 45 minute rest period. Yea for them. Finally off the ground and land in Philly. Now starts the panic of finding out if the delay in Vegas will cause us to miss our flight connection in philly since we didnt have much of a layover. Must find gate. After finding the screens for the departures we realize that HEH we are leaving out of the same gate and on the same plane as we entered. Jackasses didnt even give us the courtesy of telling us that we will have to deplane but to stick around since this is our plane. Oh well. Take off and reach Cancun safely.

Now the Fun begins. OK for those of you who havent ventured to Mexico let me preface this all by saying they run things a little bit differently there. Ok with that out of the way heres a pic of an Airport Cancun style. Hundreds of semi-english speaking mexicans everywhere trying to get you to where they are at for a million different reasons. Some want you to go on a trip through their agency some want you to take their taxi to where you are going and some hey they just want to take your bag and want you to pay them for doing it for no apparant reason. Oh yea i forgot to mention ONE EXIT so you are being funneled through this onslaught of yelling of "hey come here" and "hey american come buy my crap" so that is always fun (especially after 10 hours in the air ((redeye to boot)).

OK so we get to the Hotel and we are way early (the prize for taking the "cheaper" redeye flight) so we get to wonder around the hotel dripping with sweat because you cant change out of your travelling clothes (temp in vegas when we left approx 40 degrees). All the while your bags are outside waiting to be taken up to your room. Closely gaurded by Jose "2 dollars an hour" Rodriguez. The comfort zone in this country is sometimes at reeeeeeeealy low levels. But even with our bodies producing gallons of sweat the beach and ocean look damn good.

So we get in our rooms and shred basically every article of clothing we were saturating and we are greeted with two twin beds. Hey thats cool if this was the fifties. So instead of waiting for Juan Pablo to find us another room we just scoot the beds together and voila we have a super california king. (see pics for more).

As for the Hotel everything is as good as can be expected for something that got hit by a category 5 hurricane 2 months ago. Who knew but them mexicans can work damn hard and damn fast. And its all inclusive so drink and eat to your hearts content but be forewarned everything in Mexico has a "Wang" its hard to explain but you drink a Pepsi and your like hhmmmm that tastes close to Pepsi buuuuut hmmmm. Oh and if it says tortilla chip they mean tortilla chip not our tostitos rendition.

So besides a few days here and there of sitting on the pseudo beach (again see pics) and doing nothing all day we did visit a couple of places. First was Chitchen Itza which is a really fascinating Mayan experience and well worth the money. On friday we took a five minute ride down the street to their version of sea world (again a little of the "Cancun style"). We were able to swim with some baby dolphins (but they are pretty big for babies) that were currently being trained (another "mexican" tweak to things). Oh and I almost lost a finger by a dolphin that supposedly doesnt bite. Those trainers dont fool me these are wild ass creatures if they bite I aint gonna sit back and say they went nuts, they just went dolphin (insert favorite Chris Rock Seigfred and Roy joke here).

All in all a good trip. Smoked a Cuban cigar. Watched a mariachi band. Looked at hundreds and hundreds of "almost free" knick knacks. Saw some bare breasts on the beach (sorry no pics of that). Climbed their rock wall (not that hard). Did some ...... well you can use your imagination on that. And came back with a bigger appreciation for the FDA, Better Business Bureau, and any other organization that regulates the quality of what ends up in the consumers hands (or stomachs).

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