Cancún – 2/13/07

An interesting fact about teaching at the Linda Vista School in Blue Creek – they would be hard pressed to get through one month without a three day weekend. If there is not a national holiday in any given month, the school has a local “Blue Creek” holiday to give people the chance to get out of town and do some shopping. This month, we had some help planning our destination.

Melissa’s sister and her new husband, Jeffy Weffy, spent their honeymoon North of us in Mexico – enjoying the beauty of Cancún before the spring breakers crowd the beaches. They were generous enough to leave behind their quality snorkel gear at the resort for us to pick up – giving us a good enough reason to take a bus trip up the Yucatán peninsula. We left town after school and spent the evening riding up the Mexican coastline while watching movies on our surprisingly comfortable bus.

Some highlights of the trip:

• The stunning view of the coast along this part of Mexico and the Caribbean colors along the beach outside our hotel. Nowhere else on Earth looks quite like this.
• Speeding a boat across the lagoon, through the mangroves, and to the reef to do some snorkeling. We saw a barracuda, a giant parrot fish, and little bizarre, clear lobsters digging in the sand at the reef.
• The sunrise Saturday morning. We slept with the balcony door open to listen to the ocean, and the sunrise came pouring in early that morning. If you’ve never seen the sun rise over the Caribbean, it looks something like this…
• Dinner at Bubba Gump’s with Maria and easy access to Starbucks. Not to mention walking along the beach.

Monday morning it rained, but hey, we’re locals. That didn’t bother us. What’s a little tropical rain during an outdoor breakfast? Wet toast, the wind blowing our napkins away, the table and all four chairs across the patio sliding across the wet tile toward us as the wind funneled through the dining area – just part of the tropical getaway! We realized after awhile that we were the only ones still attempting an outdoor breakfast; all the other tourists had long since ran inside and probably stared in disbelief at the crazy couple insisting on finishing their coffee before allowing a silly storm to chase them away.

It was a fun weekend. There’s a reason so many thousands of people flock to Cancún every year. I wouldn’t attempt to go during the madness of Spring Break again, but I’m glad I got to share this experience with my wife. We are so blessed!

Stay tuned for next month’s getaway! And don’t forget to email me! I want to hear from you, too!