So after a reasonable amount of time we headed off to bed for some kip. Had to say that the room service had been very good.
New day and Annette was complaining about how she had awoke in the night and threw up all over the bed cover. I was still tired but, determined to keep awake until my body adjusted to the six hours time difference. I told her to put the bed cover on the floor and leave some cash for the cleaner. She left $ 200. Not bad considering the puke was all over it and it stunk.
So after a clean up and a tooth cleaning job I was ready for some food. Not sure where to go we headed off towards the main reception area for the greeting from the representative. Not by any means a good move, but we went to see what was on offer. Annette had swam with dolphins last time out and had done enough swimming in the sea to last her a lifetime so that was a big no-no. There were also a couple of trips out to see some jewellery place and the main town, a twenty minute trip away.
It was quite clear that our rep did not speak great English and we decided to just book two things with him: Mayan ruins and a free shopping trip up towards Cancun (the name forgets me). I had suggested booking the lounge for the return airways journey but, that was put on hold towards how much we had left in cash. Somehow, we managed to miss the breakfast, so we headed back to the pool where we could feed on snacks. Not the greatest snacks by my account but, it seemed to appeal to the Yanks more than us so we jumped in the pool and ordered drinks. Not a bad start.
So getting more hungry by the minute we headed off to Mexico’s ‘surf n turf’ restaurant (closest to pool) and got us some afternoon food. Quite a good setup for all meals really, afternoon bars tended to work after breakfast and the evening tended to be marginally up market at 5 out of 6 restaurants. There was always the 7th seafood restaurant – lobster and crab main meals, that neither of us wanted so it was ruled out.
As we were still marginally on UK time we were pretty much on the last legs for the meals and while we had a more limited choice of available foods, we still managed to find enough to fill up the plates. There was usually chicken of some sort and chips left over so i didn’t starve. A quick point to the reference that Annette had always had strawberries for breakfast, I never saw any great amounts, just the odd one or two scattered around the main meals. Annette made the effort to bring me one or two over and they went down well.
As the temperature was pretty much 29-32 centigrade most of the days, it was straight back to the pool after for more relaxing and swimming. It was about this point that we noticed there were growing numbers of adults (mainly Yankees) that were wandering around the pool, pushing a floating bed used as a table for their drinks. Not in any way inconsiderate until they started walking in front of where I was swimming, where upon I gave them a friendly look and turned away from them. Even Annette was happy with the swimming as it was all high waist depth (no children aloud) and she could swim and walk as she desired.
So we had another lazy time of it until it was time for the evening meal and we were going to go for the Taiwanese restaurant (I had checked the menu to see if there was something I could eat) and off we went out after a shower and change into evening wear ready for the night. I never noticed Annette’s shoes as I had slipped on my cheapo lazy canvas shoes to meet requirements and it appeared we would be turned away by the manageress at the Taiwanese place. We were reminded that, we should have evening shoes on and that as we had to wait a hour we could go and get changed.
Annette was not amused and we found ourselves in a Mexican might where there was some sort of buffet and some tomato soup. Now we both went for the soup but, could not find any spoons so we resorted to asking a waiter to bring us a couple over. I suspect we should have drank the soup out of the bowl as the spoons we had were a little on the large size. Nevertheless, we scoffed the lot but, it was a bit on the scrawny end of an evening meal.
Back in the rooms I had found there was a large digital TV with three non stop porn channels. Now this meant that there was usually one of them that had some girl on girl lesbian flings going on and while Annette played on her iPad, I watched the show. occasionally I got a response from Annette and forgot about the TV. However, this was soon replaced by Annette falling asleep as she quickly got into the six hour time gap. My watch stayed on UK time throughout.