Mexico Sans Kids - a Zillion Pictures

Dae and I got back yesterday from 5 refreshing and relaxing days in Cabo sans kids. It is so sad when sleeping is the most exciting thing on our agenda. No clubbing, no nightlife...sleeping. We had a really good time and got roped into attending not one but two timeshare presentations with the promise of vouchers to restaurants and activities as incentive. Of course I am all over freebies so there wasn't exactly a lot of arm twisting going on. Dae and I both came to the conclusion that if he were there on his own he would have been the proud owner of at least 2 timeshares when this trip was over! To put it mildly, he's an easy sell. Good thing he has the voice of reason (me) with him at all times.

It's amazing how much you can get done when it's just the two of us. Our last day there we went a little over board and went stand-up paddleboarding (I have wanted to do this for soooo long!), took a 3 hour snorkel cruise complete with all-you-can-drink, and from there went straight to the boat which took us parasailing. By the end of our activity-athon we were completely parched, burned and exhausted from physical activity. Oh, Dae also joined in on a pick-up game of volleyball while we were waiting for our shuttle which resulted in us barely making the shuttle and boarding the shuttle drenched in sweat. (The driver even handed him a towel before boarding). Dae claims his jeans are much looser post-trip from all the activity - I told him to launder and dry them before making that claim! haha! The hotel was perched on a steep mountainside with golf carts to pick you up and drop you off but I am proud to say I forced Dae to walk up and down the entire trip...saved us a couple of dollars in tips per journey!

On the beach of our hotel. 

So I am terrified of spiders and have never seen the Dae equivalent of terror until we jumped off our snorkel boat into the waters of the bay. He was absolutely terrified. I mean I knew he had had a hard time passing the Cornell mandatory swim test and had told me he was basically floating on his back the last of 3 laps but I didn't actually realize he had a fear of deep water and drowning. Poor Dae.  The crew had walked around offering lifejackets and Dae, trying to put on a brave macho face, had declined, but the second he jumped into the water he was furiously paddling back to the boat to fetch one of those jackets. And all for nothing! - the snorkeling basically was terrible. The water was murky and not calm so we couldn't see anything. We basically just swam to shore, laid out on the beach, made sand angels and waited for the whistle to blow signaling lunch. I hope we fare better in Hawaii with snorkeling this summer!

Many of these snorkeling photos were taken by the photographer on board and then we got the CD from him for $20. (A deal considering the swimming with dolphins place wanted $139 for their CD! Rip-off!)

Dae's pensive gaze

My morning run on the beach outside our hotel

Double fisting in the pool

We got this underwater camera and of course had to try it out with a hundred different poses.

Don't let my calm smile fool you - I fell in twice!

"Face of terror" 

Alive...barely 

(Dae's going to hate me for posting these!) Dae wanted help with his posture - this is the "Before"

"After" posture correction

View from above - parasailing

Tandem parasailing