Last week my parents took us girls (and hubbies) to Aventura Spa Palace in Cancun, Mexico to help them celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary (that's right folks...25 YEARS!). Frankly I don't know if we will ever be able to top this vacation. We had an absolute blast.
Funny Story: When you check in at this resort you receive a colored braclet that tells the hotel staff what
you are there for (vacation, business, honeymoon, anniversary, time share, etc.). When Brian and I checked in we were greeted by a very friendly gentleman named Carlos who immediately recognized that I was pregnant and excitedly asked the normal pregnancy questions and told us that he and his wife recently had their first baby as well and what an amazing thing parenthood is. He then asked us what we were there for. I looked over at my parents who were being checked in at the same time and said - "It's my parent's 25th wedding anniversary". He said..."OOOOHHHHHH...wellll"....and turned to the girl checking my parents in and spoke spanish to her very quickly. She smiled and cut off the yellow vacation bracelets that she had just put on them and replaced them with
pink HONEYMOON bracelets. I was excited because they got this special treatment because I had mentioned it and said toBrian ..."that's so cool!". Carlos smiled at me and said..."Oh you like the pink bracelet?"...like a retard I just stood there smiling. He then cut MY yellow bracelet off and gave ME a pink bracelet and gave one to Brian too! So here we are checking in to a resort as honeymooners whilst I fashioned my lovely baby bump.
We did get some extra nice treatment from the people at the resort, but the funniest part is that the servers would always look our bracelets...say "you on your honeymoon?...you have baby?"
It was kind of embarassing...but worth it in the end. Dad said it was fine because it just made Brian look like a "stand up guy finishing the job".
A typical day would start out with breakfast at one of the amazing beach-side breakfast buffets followed by fun in the sun around the pool (not to mention an occasional shot of tequila as shown by Brian above). Then we would go back to our rooms to catch an afternoon nap and get ready for dinner. Most of the time we would get dressed up and go out with the fam. It was such a relaxing trip. Brian did get to do some rock climbing and made it all the way to the top! I was impressed :)
We were sad to come home because it had been so amazing but we hope to go back someday.
I'm sure there will be more Mexico stories to come as I remember them but that's all I've got for now. Now I'll go back to freezing in stinkin Missouri.
