The Beach

The beach at the resort was beautiful, but there was a problem with erosion. The solution was the following picture. those are not rock or boulders in the water. They are giant sand bags. Most of the beach infront of the hotels along the area had these huge sand bags.
We did take a walk father along the beach where there were no resorts and found this area without the sand bags.
I spend the entire week resting on the beach in front of the resort, either sleeping in the hammock
or on the beach couches. Of course I also did a lot of reading. Finished 2 books during the week.
This is a view of where we spend our days. Quite a comfortable place to relax. We would go to the beach, reserve our chairs/couches, then go to the buffet for breakfast. After eating we returned to the beach to relax. There were waiters that spent their day bringing cool drinks so we didn't have to get up for anything. At lunch time we went to the buffet for lunch and immediately returned to the beach to relax until time to get ready for dinner. Not a bad life really.
Of course Mike's idea of relaxing was either walking up and down the beach, playing beach vollyball, or.....
checking his email at work on his Blackberry. He did manage to relax some and get a little reading done.

Every night we went to a different restaurant at the resort for dinner.

How to Destress

After the busy January and February that we had (selling the house, sorting our things, cleaning the house, packing the house, moving to an apartment, helping our daughter recover from having a baby) we took the first week of March and went to Playa del Carmen in Mexico for our annual vacation. It was a great trip. Very relaxing which is what I wanted most. Here are some pictures of our trip.

These three are our hotel room, the balcony to our room, and the view from the balcony. Very nice. Beautiful weather too.
These iguanas were all over the place. They came out during the morning to sun. They were absolutely everywhere, and there were lots of them.
This is an animal that only came out at night. It was very hard to get a picture, they were very skittish. Their fur almost looked like feathers sometimes. They had no tails. There were quite a few of them also. There was also a beautiful peacock but the only time we saw it I didn't have my camera of course.