We woke up…well, you know the drill. Made breakfast, packed our stuff up, said bye to our host and got moving to Cancun. We’d decided to take a bus downtown Cancun and cab to our hotel a move that saved us $50 versus busing to the airport then cab to the hotel, a shorter distance.

Thankfully, unlike our last day Hawaii last year, this hotel was lovely. Check in was easy, we found our suite quickly and met a really nice lady in check in line up. A quick lunch at the hotel restaurant and we’re off to the pool! And the swim up bar.

I think we swam, read, drank, swam, goofed off for a good 3 hours before we went back to our overly air conditioned room. A shower, an attempt at a nap and we left again by shuttle to a circus show!

Actually, first, dinner at Hacienda Sisal restaurant. We ordered guacamole (predictable), empanadas and tosadas. The food was good, but the guac was brilliant. We finally found the guacamole of our dreams!

The show was Deseo, apparently a new show roughly last year. The production quality was low-to-moderate, but the skill of the performers was all very high. There was one act in particular where the guy starts on a balance board with a ball under it, and by the end he’s standing on… 6 rolling tubes stacked on top of each other. The tubes were all perpendicular to each other, such that he could have fallen off in any direction at all, but he stayed up there for a good 10 seconds before coming down. They had a live singer who was excellent, and a group of acrobalancers who did an amazing set. Great show, well worth the time and effort and money!

I’m going to roll into the next day, since I have an actual keyboard now (home!). Up at 7am again, a quick breakfast at the TradeWinds (hotel restaurant) and we gave our last pesos to the cabby to take us to the airport. The Cancun airport is laid out well, and has all the services you might want near the departure gates.

The plane ride was hectic. Very very bumpy and scary. But we made it. Vancouver is cold, but not as cold as I expected. Brisk. We had Memphis Blues for dinner, and now we’re trying to make it to 9pm. We can do it!

I’ve got a few more photos from Chichen Itza/Ek Balam and a couple underwater photos and photos from the hotel. Hopefully I don’t give up on them! 🙂