Activities

This is part three of vacation coverage. The resort had tons of activities everyday and a big activity at night. The daily organized things to do included beach volleyball, water aerobics, yoga, Spanish classes, pool volleyball, water polo, dance lessons, cooking classes, fruit carving classes, bungee trampoline jumping, soccer, scuba lessons in the pool, drink mixing classes. The had lots of stuff you could do on your own as well like ping pong, shuffle board, kayaking, wind surfing, big outdoor checkers and chess, snorkeling, tennis, blow up ocean trampoline, blow up ocean climbing wall. They pretty much had activities throughout the entire day that you could participate in if you wanted. At night they had a big special event. The first night we were there they had a big beach barbecue and then had a band playing and had a limbo competition. One night they had Mayan night: they had a conch blowing contest, local vendors selling handicrafts, and then a bunch of Mayan people dressed up in traditional Mayan stuff doing tribal dancing and stuff. It was really awesome. Another night they did Mexican night where they had outdoor Mexican buffet and had a Mexican band and dancers. They also had a big pinata for the kids to bust open. A couple nights they also had some bands playing at some of the outside bars and they had mechanical bull riding at some of the night events. They would also have movies on the beach at night where they showed movies on a big blow up screen and some nights they would show the NBA playoffs as well. Here are some pictures of some of the stuff.

This is during Mayan night, one of the guys blowing a conch while they were doing a ritual dance thing


Here is me with a couple of the Mayan guys


Here is a band that was playing one night at one of the outside bar/lounge areas. This was one of the most enjoyable things to me, lounging in the cool evening, sipping on by drink of choice, listening to a good band, and watching the ocean.


Here is Margo on the big blow up ocean trampoline


Here is me on the blow up ocean climbing wall


Here is what we did a lot of the time. Relax on the beach and sip drinks and we got some reading done as well. It was kind of hard for me at first to just lay around and do nothing and have everyone wait on us. I am used to always doing something and working on the farm and stuff.


Here we are in snorkel gear (big guy in a little coat)


This is while we were out kayaking in the ocean


We walked on the beach a lot in the evenings (when it was a little cooler).