My trip went something like this:
- Get up ridiculously early to go to the airport after less than four hours of sleep.
- Arrive at the all-inclusive resort about 10 hours later.
- Acquire a massive sunburn within 24 hours after lounging at the pool.
- Spend the next six days eating a lot of really good buffet food, drinking many cocktails [and wine and bottled water and the occasional beer], and sweating. Lots and lots of sweating.
- Spend three of those six days on a tour bus
pretending to be a rockstarlooking at amazing Mayan ruins. Seriously, Chichen Itza was the most mind blowing thing I’ve ever seen. - Avoid anything and everything having to do with the American Idol event going on at the resort.
- Enjoy a fabulous 50 minute massage at the spa.
- Watch Andrew eat his weight in tacos.
- Eat the same amount in cactus and fresh fruit.
- Lose repeatedly at foosball.
- Make up for it in basketball.
- Eat this menu at a fancy dinner, complete with Mayans and pineapple chili sorbet in a beer mug made of ice.
- Sneak cheese and pretend it didn’t happen.
- Become a delicious meal for a mosquito or four after the rain settled in over the beach.
- Wear lots of dresses.
- Wear lots of sunscreen.
- Take many, many showers.
- Realize after four days that yes, the bathroom floor tiles are in fact heated.
- Sleep on the plane back to Portland, and not get home until almost midnight.
- Be back to the office by 8am the next day.