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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Vacation Dreaming link up!

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I meant to do this a few days ago, unfortunately, my favorite vacation was back in 2001 (aka the days before digital cameras) so I had to go digging for the pictures to take pictures with my phone to get them on here. Oh, how far technology has come!

My favorite vacation was when I was 17, in the summer of 2001. I went with my family (dad, stepmom, brother, sister, and stepbrother) to Cozumel and Playa del Carmen in Mexico! Hard to believe I was so close to not even going on this trip. I originally told my dad I was going to stay behind to work, in all actuality I think I didn't want to leave my boyfriend for a whole week. At the last minute I changed my mind. My dad had to call the airlines because they had already booked tickets. 

So, we took off mid-July of 2001. I believe that we flew to Chicago first, to connect, or we may have just flown out of Chicago ... that I can't remember. I believe the flight to Mexico was around 5 hours. We got to Mexico (we landed in Cozumel), and I remember the airport being TINY. There was some mix up with our rental van, and I just remember my sibs and I being SO crabby, sitting on the floor of the airport next to the rental desk. I literally think they didn't have chairs ... or at least enough chairs. And I found the picture to prove it! This picture always makes me laugh, we were SO crabby.


We finally got our van, and drove to Playa del Carmen, where we were staying. My dad and stepmom rented this gorgeous house right on the beach. The house was pretty big. There was a living room, a kitchen, a dining room, another small family room downstairs and 3 bedrooms upstairs. There were 2 bathrooms. This is a picture of the house.


There were a few places like next to each other so I guess they weren't houses, more like huge condos.


This was us eating lunch in the dining room, you can see the beach and the water behind us.


This is a picture of our house from a boat on the water (we went deep sea fishing).


View from the upstairs balcony.

We went to a lot of different places while we were in Mexico. The first day we went to Tulum, which is a site of Mayan ruins, and then afterward we went to a beach near there.







At the beach they had these little huts with a hammock and table and there was a restaurant behind us where you could get drinks and stuff.

We also went into Playa del Carmen one day and went out to a restaurant for lunch and then just walked around the city and looked at all the buildings and culture.





My sister and I apparently didn't like pictures haha.

We also went to Chichen Itza, another site of Mayan ruins. My dad, stepmom, and brothers climbed to the top of it but my sister and I didn't. I wish I would have now.



One day we went to this cave, and at the bottom of it was this huge freshwater pool. We all swam in it ... it was superrrr cold but it was so cool!


We also went deep sea fishing. My dad and brothers all caught barracudas, which was exciting, but we all ended up catching something! Another funny happening ... my dad had on this like straw hat with a brim that blew off of his head and into the water during our fishing trip. Luckily, he was able to get it back.


On the last night, we ate at a restaurant close to where we were staying, called The Pelicans, but I think it was the Spanish translation. We had eaten there for lunch once before and we loved it. You could sit outside and look at the water.




My dad is wearing the hat that fell off his head there ;) 

Another thing we did frequently while we were there was play Pitch. Pitch is a card game, and we actually still play it today when we get together for Christmas and other holidays. Here we are, sitting on the floor in the airport again, waiting to board our flight home.


It was such a fun vacation! I was too young at the time to fully appreciate the ruins, architecture, and culture, but I had a wonderful time anyway and I now look back on it as one of my favorite vacations ever. I remember just our rental house alone was so much fun. We'd watch Meet the Parents (it had just come out) every night on our TV in the family room (I'm sure we drove my parents nuts with that), and we could lounge in the house and then just walk out the patio and onto the beach when we wanted. 

I really want to go back to Mexico again someday, for many different reasons. My husband is from there, so I'd like to go visit where he is from. I'd also like to do kind of a trip like we did, historical and sight seeing again, and then I really really want to go somewhere touristy and do an all inclusive trip at a resort! Hope you enjoyed reading about my favorite vacation!

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