blogging from cozumel
You´d be so proud of me: I actually left my powerbook at home! wahoo!! they have free internet in this hotel, but tonites the first I´ve checked it. it´s feeling soooo good to relax.they lost my luggage on the way here, but luckily I was smart enough to put a bikini in my carry on just in case. I´ve had my luggage lost 3 times in 1 year. what´s up with that!?
side note: this keyboard is making me work to find the right keys.
One thing that was in my luggage that I desperately needed was my PADI referral info... so unfortunately because I didn´t get my luggage till this afternoon (24 hours after arriving, and inconveniently approx 2 hours *after* the dive time) I can´t do my first dive until tomorrow. Bummer that it cut a day out of my diving. From now on I will be religious about packing a smart carry on! At least I had a bikini though... as I definitely took advantage of a beautiful day laying by the ocean, and the pool.
I was fretting big time about putting sunscreen everywhere. Getting it all over my back, and around my bikini - so afraid of that *one spot* getting burnt where I`d missed. I was slathering it on everywhere. Well, guess what got burnt? The tops of my feet!!! gah!! I was wondering why my shoes felt so uncomfortable tonite... and after dinner I looked down & they´re bright red. DARNIT! The good news is you really don´t have to wear shoes here at all. Except to breakfast, and if we go out to a nice restaurant, of course. The best news is 97% of the time is bikini time. I´m loving it!
I bought 2 new bikinis before I left, the 2nd of which just arrived in my suitcase today and I love it soo much. I think when I get back I´m going to buy a 2nd one of the same design, just so I have it for when this one wears out. :p
side note: I hate obnoxious middle age men that think their coined *wootwoot* they do is so funny over and over and over and over again. DUDE. STOP IT.
Our resort is BEAUTIFUL!! We´re staying at the Iberostar Cozumel. And I don´t know if it´s the fact that they´re on vacation, but everyone´s so friendly. I´ve been caught off guard having to say hello to strangers. Oh ya! People do that when you´re not hustling & bustling in a city! (Uhh, or cooped up in your house all day only to leave to hit a rock show. ha!)
I finished Time Traveler´s Wife & it was sooo good. And in the Dallas airport (on my 5 hour layover yesterday morning), I bought ¨The Big Moo` and finished that today, too. It looked interesting in the store, but after reading it, I realize I totally didn´t really need to read it. I suppose I gleaned a few insights but it´s more for people in a corporation or a start up or something, but whatever. Next up is ``Perks of a Wallflower^`. (getting lazy about fixing these weird keyboard strokes) I´m looking forward to it!
Other interesting vacation tidbits:
- My diving instructor (today through a refresher course in the pool) is a nice girl named Lisa from Oregon. But you´d never know it because she has a slight accent from the last 6 years of travelling around the globe, working at various dive shops. Pretty neat, but she said she thinks she´s finally tiring of it. I´m not sure why I´m reporting this, but I like her & so far she´s made my stay better somehow. She even joined us for lunch today.
- Sad: my Mom broke her wrist a week ago... so I´ve been helping her with everything. She´s pretty bummed, but her pink cast is cute & she´s going to try to dive anyway.
- There´s pink flamingos here on this resort!
- Today we watched 2 iguanas do it! Yes IT! XXX at Iberostar, who knew? ooh, let´s put in some of these: ¿¿¿¿¿¿
- I fell asleep in my lawn chair & woke up to my Mom whispering to wake me in order to look over and see the most beautiful sunset over the ocean.
- Today we saw a cute little crab in the water.
- There are kitties here. Stray skinny cats, but they´re very friendly. So far I´ve made friends with 3 of them. They love me. But I got scolded for letting one drink my water. I wasn´t going to encourage them with food, but I was amazed at how grateful gatito was for fresh water. poor babies!
- Tomorrow night we´ll go in & eat in the town at Carlos & Charlie´s - we ate at The Mission Restaurant instead, much more authentic. :)
- My spanish sucks, but they act mildly impressed that I try.
- This post has no smiley´s cuz I have to think about finding the keys to make the semicolons & parenthesis.
- My skin is super soft from the moist air.
- Tomorrow I dive at 1pm.
UPDATE: photos are posted
