Today was a day of shopping and relaxing. We started off earlier than wanted thanks to a snorkelling tour we were supposed to have but.... It was cancelled due to rough weather (very windy and choppy) so we decided to go do the main thing, shopping, first. We started off by taking a taxi down to the end of the Quinte Avenida or Avenue 5 or 5th Avenue (you get the idea) to go into Zara and then Zara Home and some other shops before going into Haagen Dazs, it was hot ok don’t judge.
Next it was on to the 2 storey Nike building just around the corner for a new pair of socks for me and then it was off to get some Mexican wrestling masks. It took us about 10 seconds to find a shop that would sell them and with mum and dad tag teaming the needy salesperson they got it down from $1700 Mexican Pesos (or $170 NZD) all the way down to $500 Mexican Pesos (or $50 NZD.) I’m almost certain that if my parents wrote a book on bargaining it would be 1000 times better than The Art of The Deal.
From those shops our search began for the place mum had found for lunch and after ½ an hour of no luck we decided to catch a taxi back to the hotel for lunch where he had a very funny exchange in trying to order lunch with a man who spoke very little English (Pretty much us but with English not Spanish). After lunch, it was just relaxing in our beachy bungalow reading and lying in the hammock in the shade of the palm trees, paradise.
Later we headed down to the beach where the waves were still rocking and the wind was warm (very warm, nothing like the wind we have back in New Zealand, it felt so weird), I stayed in the Sea wandering up and down the marked off area for quite some time.
At the start both mum and dad were in there with me, mum kept chucking seaweed on top of me when it landed on her and she kept spitting on dad whenever the seawater got into her mouth, it was pretty funny (doubt dad felt the same way). After getting minorly crunched by the small waves I headed back onto the beach and then back into the house/room/bungalow for a read of a book and more relaxing.
Later we headed down to the beach where the waves were still rocking and the wind was warm (very warm, nothing like the wind we have back in New Zealand, it felt so weird), I stayed in the Sea wandering up and down the marked off area for quite some time.
At the start both mum and dad were in there with me, mum kept chucking seaweed on top of me when it landed on her and she kept spitting on dad whenever the seawater got into her mouth, it was pretty funny (doubt dad felt the same way). After getting minorly crunched by the small waves I headed back onto the beach and then back into the house/room/bungalow for a read of a book and more relaxing.
Even later in the evening I went out to the bar where dad was having a Caipirinha and talking to this couple from Maine in the States (according to them it’s the eastern most town in all of America), I had a virgin Pina Colada (maybe two or three who’s to say), and then we went back to get ready for dinner.
Dinner was a massive buffet of meat being cooked on the grill right then and there, there were meats like beef flank, fajita chicken, fish, pork ribs etc. there was a lot. During dinner, there was also a mariachi band playing and going around the tables taking requests, there were a lot of Guantanameras and La Bambas, it was a great soundtrack to the night which was helped by the fact they had good voices.
Dinner was a massive buffet of meat being cooked on the grill right then and there, there were meats like beef flank, fajita chicken, fish, pork ribs etc. there was a lot. During dinner, there was also a mariachi band playing and going around the tables taking requests, there were a lot of Guantanameras and La Bambas, it was a great soundtrack to the night which was helped by the fact they had good voices.
After dinner, it was back to the bungalow getting ready for tomorrow’s adventurous tour of zip-lining, cliff jumping and swimming in cenotes, should be good. Until then, goodbye.
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