After much debate and indecision to where we should kick back and enjoy each other when all the wedding fiasco was over, we finally had settled on an exciting and exotic honeymoon location on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico! Neither of us had been to Mexico, so it seemed fitting that we should get to experience a new place together for the first time, while still being able to enjoy the sun, water, and each other. We spent 3 nights in Cancun and 5 nights in Cozumel.
So here is a little day to day of what we did:
Day 1: Arrive in Cancun!! We arrived mid-day and grabbed a cab to our hotel, The Gran Melia, which was located in the middle of "the strip". Checked out our awesome hotel and went for a swim in the beautiful crystal blue warm water, layed on the beach and enjoyed some drinks. Mitch had his first "Tacante". Then we enjoyed a fabulous seafood dinner at a nice restaurant (we forgot the name)
Day 2: We slept in late and then explored "the Strip". After sleeping in and enjoying a fabulous breakfast at the hotel cafe, we took the bus down to the shopping area of the strip. We walked through tons of shops mostly window shopping but we did buy a few little things. Mitch got a really neat cross necklace made out of leather, wood and sand.
One thing that I really enjoyed about walking around in Cancun was that all the sales people in the shops asked us if we were on our honeymoon, they would call out to us, "Honeymooners? Yes?" and after we nodded, they would say to Mitch, "Ahh, you a lucky lucky man!" Haha! Mitch heard that over and over that day... It was great. :)
And that night we had dinner at the Cancun Hooters, I've always wanted to go to one so we did... it was a lot of fun, and to my surprise really there wasn't that much cleavage. :)
Day 3: Mitch's 25th Birthday! We toured the Mayan Ruins of Coba! It was an adventured filled day where we hiked, zip lined, repelled down into an old sacrificial water hole and explored the Mayan Ruins of Coba. Then later that night we explored the Cancun night clubs to celebrate Mitch's B-day. We had a blast!
Day 5: We called room service for breakfast, as we did almost every morning, taking advantage of the all-inclusiveness of the resort. We then walked around downtown Cozumel and did a little shopping. We also enjoyed a Starbucks! I was so excited. It was nice to have my tall, double, extra caramel, caramel macchiato! We then returned to our hotel to snorkel off the amazing coral reef and relax by the pool for the rest of the day. This afternoon by the pool is where we made some new friends. We Met 3 different couples, from all over the US, who were staying at the resort as well. We all had dinner together at the Mexican Restaurant at our Resort (included in the all-inclusive package) and enjoyed the company of our new friends. And after dinner Mitch gave a little musical performance for everyone in the hotel lobby after our new friend Bob kindly asked the Mexican Band playing if Mitch could borrow one of their guitars and the stage for a couple minutes to play some of his songs. They smiled and happily cheered Mitch on as he played about 5 of his songs. It was awesome!
Day 6: After breakfast we went to town and rented a moped. Then we headed to the Tequila Factory about 20 minutes away, where we sampled about 15 different kinds of delicious tequila. Our next stop was the Mayan Ruins on Cozumel. We spent a couple hours touring these ruins and saw probably 50 different wild iguanas out and about. It was really neat. We left the ruins and continued driving around the perimeter of the island, we cruised and cruised and stopped a couple times to take a stroll on a couple beautiful secluded beaches. Cozumel is such a beautiful place! We then returned to our hotel and met up with our Resort Friends to Celebrate Angie's 30th Birthday. We all went to dinner at the Japanese Restaurant in our hotel (included in the all-inclusive package) and had a great time.
Day 7: We found a beautiful Catholic Church in the outskirts of downtown Cozumel and went to mass, it wasn't fancy but was nice. There were tons of children there, and all the kids sat in the front section of the church without their families. The boys were all on one side while the girls sat on the other side. We had never seen that before. The mass was in Spanish, naturally, but we were able to follow along just fine, well, for the most part! It felt really good to go to church together on our Honeymoon.
Then we went spent the afternoon at Playa Bonita, a beautiful white sandy beach, where we were served food and drinks and swam in the beautiful blue water. After getting a little too much sun we headed back to our resort. We freshened up then enjoyed a nice dinner, just the two of us, at the Italian Restaurant in our resort. Then we went outside and hung out on the patio and Mitch, aka Tequila Boy, participated in "Karaoke Night" which was alot of fun to watch!
Day 8: We went Scuba Diving! It was a first for both of us and it was amazing! We had so much fun! We had a half hour individual training lesson on how to use our gear then we went out just the two of us with our guide for an hour of diving. The deepest we got was 35 feet, but that was good for our first time.
After scuba diving we met some of our new friends, Bob and Angie from Nashville, at a little restaurant on the other side of the island called "Coconuts" for lunch. It's an awesome little restaurant with amazing food that we highly recommend! Then we jumped in their little old purple convertible VW bug and drove to a beautiful light house on a quiet beach. Then we observed wild alligators from an observation deck.
Day 9: We woke up, had breakfast, packed up our stuff and went snorkeling one last time off our hotels reef. Then it was time to leave the little island of Cozumel. We headed for the Cancun airport and flew home.
We had an amazing honeymoon! It couldn't have been any better. And we hope to go back to Cozumel again some day soon! :)
