Honeymoon Trip Part I

We headed to Cancun, Mexico early Sunday morning, the day after our wedding. It was a direct flight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Cancun, Mexico and it was my first trip out of the country. When we arrived, we took a shuttle bus to Akumal, which is an hour south of Cancun, which is where the resort was that we booked. When we arrived at the gate of the resort we ran into a problem. Apparently the resort has been shut down for the past 2 weeks "due to the incidents" aka swine flu. Why wasn't this information given to us or the shuttle service? We had confirmed our flight and hotel information the week before and the shuttle service had even told us the name of the supposed conseirge that was to greet us at the resort in Akumal. It was very frustrating for us tired and hungry travelers, but they arranged for us to stay at the same resort in Cancun.

We ended up staying at the Grand Oasis Cancun which is an all inclusive resort. There was a fountain in the middle of the building and it looked like a little jungle that surrounded it. There were vines hanging from the edges of all the 6 floors. It looked really cool. We did get an ocean view room, but we were on the 1st floor, so we couldn't quite see the ocean from our room, but the shared balcony had an amazing view. The color of the ocean in the Carribean is such a beautiful blue, I loved it.




Somehow we were talked into doing a timeshare-like presentation on Monday morning. We ended up going through 5 different sales people who kept telling us we were ridiculous for passing up this opportunity to invest with them. We just kept telling them we didn't want to commit to anything that day and we would think about it. It wasn't fun getting harassed by all of them, but we did end up with a voucher for 3day/2night stay at the same resort for sitting through all that.

Monday night we became pirates. We sailed on the Caribbean Sea on a pirate ship from 7 to 1030. It was so cool to watch the sunset while we were on the ship. We took a pirate oath to obey the captain and thus became pirates. We ate a yummy lobster dinner and drank pina coladas. An enemy pirate ship sailed up along side us and there was a battle. There were guns and sword fights. The pirates even danced for us. There was a Mexican midget pirate and the captain had a hook. We had so much fun.

























To be continued.....