Travel Log the Fourth

On our last day of SPRING BREAK 2010 WHOOO! I woke up bright and early at 6am. I quietly changed into my bathing suit and headed down to the beach. I walked in the surf until about 7am. All along the Hotel Zone there are a ton of Giant Conch Shells just sitting on the beach. And you are more than welcome to take them. And I totally would have if I was planning on checking my luggage but all I had was a carryon and I didn’t think I could get it past customs.

Melissa came down to the beach at 7am and we walked along the shore looking for a stretch of beach that didn’t have the dreaded red flags. (Signifying dangerous undertows, meaning you weren’t allowed to swim) We finally found other vacationers willing to brave drowning and we all swam happily in the surf until a life guard came running out and blew his whistle at us menacingly. We slowly sulked back into shore like errant children. But, I got my beach time in so I was happy.

We then swam in the pool at our hotel. This pool had a pretty dolphin design on the bottom, that when viewed from above appeared to be a drowning man. My first trip to the pool, nearly had me diving in to save the poor creature.

We then went to the airport. We were all flying stand by and when we arrived they told us there were 4 seats available. And at the time only 4 people wanted those seats so it was looking good. There was Shannon, an employee so she had a high priority. A nice lady we met, who was an employees mom who had slightly higher priority than Melissa and me. So as long as no employees showed up, or someone else bumped from another flight. So I sat in horror for about an hour for fear of other travelers showing up. A little bit before the plane left they explained to us that there were 5 passengers from a Mexico City Flight who would bump us if there flight made it to Cancun in time. Luckily it didn’t and we made it home safely.