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Snorkeling

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This morning, even though Lucas wasn’t here, we still woke up around 7. I walked over and got Lucas from my parents and then we all went to breakfast at the Italian place. When we walked in my dad wasn’t there yet, he was going to meet us at the restaurant. We saw him talking to the hostess. He wasn’t far from us so we called his name, but he didn’t hear us. Lucas said “it’s like he’s blind with hearing” 😂😂

We had booked a snorkeling tour for 10 am but it was unsure if Lucas would come or stay with my parents. My dad walked over to the marina with us in case he wouldn’t go. While we were waiting Lucas had fun looking at all the iguanas.

He did end up going on the snorkeling tour with us. At first when we jumped in Lucas was very scared. Luckily one of the guides came and helped us. He brought over a floatie with a rope and he basically guided Lucas and Don. We saw a lot of fish and at least 3 rays. It was cool. By the end of it Lucas was saying “do we have another destination?” He loved his first real snorkeling experience, and we were so happy he came with us.

Then we came back to the pool and swam all afternoon. We checked out the infinity pool and the hot tub. We had to leave around 4 to get ready for our dinner at the Italian place. Dinner was good. We had a few servings of calamari. Lucas had spaghetti and he ate all of it! I had margarita pizza. Don and my mom had pasta, and my dad had swordfish. Lucas was trying everything, even the swordfish!

After dinner we walked around. I showed Lucas and my parents the jungle theme at Ventas Ha. Then we came back and packed.

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Pool Day

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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.

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Traveling to Mexico!

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My parents spent the night last night so it would be easy for us to all go to O’Hare together. We woke up around 4 am. Getting to the airport was nice–uneventful.

Once at the airport we checked in easily. Then we stopped at the food court for breakfast. Lucas had a McDonald’s sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit with a hash brown. He later talked me into getting him a donut from Dunkin. The rest of us had burrito beach. It was a nice relaxing time.

Lucas and I got upgraded to business class because we booked separately from Don. We tried to get our seats back, but we could not. So Lucas and I are enjoying our time in business. I kind of miss the coziness of economy in our whole row, because here there is a seat divider.

Once on the flight the flight attendant came right away to get drinks. I got a mimosa. Lucas got apple juice. Then they took our order for breakfast. We got a smoked salmon plate with fruit. They brought us a hot wet cloth and Lucas was very confused by it. He said “when we get to the airport can you tell Dia everything that happened here”.

He ate all my hard-boiled egg and some of my salmon. I had to take away his butter because he was just eating it plain. The flight was good. Lucas watched ninja turtles. I read and tried to sleep but couldn’t. Lucas took maybe an hour nap.

Lucas and I got off the plane quickly and we got in line to go thru security. The line we were in did not move at all from the time we got in it until we saw Don and my parents. It had to be at least 10 minutes.

They got in the line next to us and Lucas and I attempted to go there but we were told no kids so we had to go back. Don and my parents were done quickly. It took Lucas and I at least 30 minutes. Once we got done there, we looked for our driver from USA transfers. That was pretty easy. It was a good transfer.

Upon arrival we were greeted by a man who took our bags. Then we went inside and checked in. The check-in process was long. It also did not feel like the man wanted to tell us anything. After about 20-30 minutes my parents had a room but ours was not ready. So we went to the buffet.
 
The food was ok. Once we were done eating Lucas, my mom, and I went up to their room and Don and my dad went to check on our room. Mom and dad’s room was nice, but it was a king with a Murphy bed which is what the guy said we had. So we were confused. Also, their luggage wasn’t there yet despite the man telling us it would be there in 5 minutes.
 
Don got our room, and it was also a king with another bed so I guess that’s cool. After getting our rooms Lucas wanted to check out the pool. The pool was nice but there were no towels available. The swim up bar was cool. I am not used to all inclusive, it feels weird just getting a drink with no payment haha. We finally got towels and then we got out to dry off and walk around.

We looked at the beach. Then we decided to check on getting dinner reservations. You need a reservation for pretty much all restaurants for dinner and the website says you can’t book them until you’re here. You have to talk to a person at the desk. Long story short, there’s basically no reservations. We have one reservation for Thursday night at 9 pm and one at 5pm on Friday at the Italian restaurant. The buffet line was so long, but we eventually got in. The food was ok, nothing great. Then we went back to the room for bed.