Lucas woke up today at 6:30. He played with his ninja turtles in bed for a while. I made some coffee, and we watched the sun rise over the trees from our balcony. Lucas said, “look mama it’s so beautiful”.

Then we met my parents at the breakfast buffet. It was a better experience than last night.

After breakfast I wanted to figure out tours. I ended up getting a tour to Xcaret and a snorkeling tour. It took about 1.5 hours between booking and listening to how they could make it cheaper for us if we listen to their sales pitch. I’m going to listen to it on Thursday. The guy there made me a deal that we can do the Xcaret tour on Wednesday and attend the talk on Thursday. He also said only 2 of us must stay for the talk. If we don’t show up, we will be charged the full price. I probably shouldn’t have done this but whatever, live and learn.

Lucas was already enjoying the pool. It was fun to all get in. My mom bought Lucas a football, so we had fun throwing that around. He met a friend named Arthur from Canada who was also 5. Lucas liked to play on the handrail on the stairs in the water. He was flipping all around it and climbing. He said “hey mama, do you see my cool tricks on the pole?!”

There was a bubble/foam party in the pool. They threw a bunch of balloons in water and everyone was dancing around. It was a fun experience.

We checked out the beach. It was very warm. We didn’t get in much because we wanted to get dry for lunch. We went to the other buffet (Dolores) which was more like a food court. The food here was better. They had good ceviche and wings. Lucas really liked it. At one point the waiter took away our spoons that he wasn’t done with, and he said “well that’s unfortunate”.

On our walk back we looked at the pools at the other resort. There was a cool looking infinity pool. Then we came back and went to the beach more. Lucas looked at fish in the little holes where the tide had went out. Then he decided he wanted to try to snorkel, so we got all geared up but then he got nervous. Don went out by himself. Lucas threw a huge fit about how Dia needed to play football right now with him. It took me awhile to calm him down, he was exhausted.

Then we decided to go back to the room to get cleaned up. Lucas wanted to try to find crocodiles and take pictures with his camera.

We went for a walk over to the marina. He took a ton of pictures, it was funny. We saw where people swim with dolphins and we sat and watched them come out of the water every so often. It was peaceful because it was late, and the dolphins were off duty.

Then we went to the buffet for dinner again because we had no reservations again. It wasn’t as long of line. It was busy though and very loud. The breakfast buffet is a much better experience.

After dinner my parents came to look at our room. Then it was another pretty early night in bed.