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ORIGINAL: barata

Hil-larious! That's all I'm gonna say till Seagoat tells the stories.

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ORIGINAL: 1runjuan

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ORIGINAL: barata

Hil-larious! That's all I'm gonna say till Seagoat tells the stories.

yes we are , waiting.

The night before the trip there was an omen.  I left my purse at the nail salon and they were closed by the time I figured it out. 

Good thing I still had my wallet, passport and pesos with me.  Alas, no carefully packed items such as my ipod, etc until I return.

The trip down was airport hell.  Arrived at Cun at 5:30 pm to crowds of travelers lined up at Immigration.  The entire floor was a sea of people and they were piling up the stairs and escalators as more planes arrived.  We were able to jump the line as we were travelling with children.  Didn’t make much diff anyways , as we ended up at our bus waiting for all of the others to make it through the three-hour lineup.  

In order to maintain sanity, we purchased some beer at the vendors right outside the airport doors.  Used to be a good deal when I first travelled to Mexico, but at $40 US for a six-pack, it’s now a gouge and nothing more.  We sipped and waited for several hours and finally our bus departed and headed south to ABR.  No beer for sale on bus and no music either.:(   Things just aren’t the same anymore.  We ended up doing the milk run down and finally arrived at ABR at 11:30 at night.  A very long day to say the least.  I didn't sleep well at all despite being exhausted.  Memories of past trips kept me awake. 

Stayed in building four and immediately realized that our toilet was haunted.  It literally made screaming banshee noises at random.  It sounded like a cross between a baby crying and kitten being tortured.  We learned to laugh at it in the end, although it didn't let up the entire two weeks we were there.

My first snorkel out I spotted a baby tortuga right off the bat.  I then ventured out into the middle of the bay where something caught my eye.  It was a camera, sitting at the bottom in some coral.  I was gonna get it.  Not very good at diving with my snorkel, but now was my chance to practice.  I tried three times…kicking up my fins and trying to get to the bottom.  After several tries, I managed to get down and nabbed it....hooray!   Swam to shore and realized that my snorkel vest was inflated, which explains why I had a hard time diving. LOL!.  Opened up the camera and it appeared to be dry inside, but batteries were dead.

Headed to the town for some batteries, beer and jewelry shopping.  I stopped in at the big silver shop across from the chomak.  I was looking for some red coral to match a necklace that I had taken down with me.  The gentleman showed me some quite pricey pieces which were too big for my taste.  I told him I thought a couple of the pieces were tacky and he seemed quite intrigued by the word.  He got out his pen and asked me to repeat….I said “tacky” and in true Mexican style, he wrote it out as “taquie”.  I laughed and wrote out the correct spelling and explained the meaning.  He seemed very grateful about his new English word of the day.

I purchased a couple of things and had a 500 peso bill left when I made it to the Chomak.  I grabbed a six pack of Tecate beer and proceeded to dig out my cash.  The salesgirl took my bill and then gave me a confused look and said “what is this?”  I looked closer at the bill and realized that it was 500 Greek drachmas.  Oh Dear!  GBG would have loved this.  It was a bill that had been sitting in my dresser drawer since my trip to the Greek Isles eighteen years ago and had somehow gotten mixed in with my Mexican pesos.  I sheepishly took the bill back (very ungoatlike ) and she peered at me suspiciously.  I hauled out the four American dollars that I had and ended up leaving in shame with only two Tecate! 

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ORIGINAL: Gato

Nice... how to leave us all hanging!
Dont make me come bang on your door and force tequila down your throat so you give me the skinny

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the handsome young security guard, with my brightly coloured purse draped over his shoulder.  I almost kissed him!   He found it on the pathway from the room to the beach...duh!

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ORIGINAL: TwirleyB

I promised to get on with my report very soon but now I wanna hear more from seagoat!
BTW, 404 was also my room.  Wear shoes when turning on or off the lamps!  And we also heard the wild screaming noise in the bathroom as well as something climbing inside the walls and up in the ceiling.  The first time I heard the screaming I decided it was a cat outside. (That upper window only has a screen)  It seemed to happen at night when I opened the door to go in.  Badger suggested that it could be a gecko.  He said they scream when they are startled.  Bernie thought it was the plumbing but we never could figure it out.
Not sure what was crawling around in the walls and ceiling, cats or iguanas.  Sherry heard them above 401 and SNF heard them in 403.  Sherry made Tom get out of bed and inspect the room twice.

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ORIGINAL: Tanda50

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the handsome young security guard, with my brightly coloured purse draped over his shoulder.  I almost kissed him!   He found it on the pathway from the room to the beach...duh!

Actually, I saw a guest give it to him. She said she had found it. He was kind of scared to take it. I didn't realize that you were missing one, or that it was yours or I'd have done something to reunite the lovely Seagoat and her colorful camera packing purse.

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ORIGINAL: barata

What a short, strange trip it's been.....

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ORIGINAL: TwirleyB

I And we also heard the wild screaming noise in the bathroom as well as something climbing inside the walls and up in the ceiling.  The first time I heard the screaming I decided it was a cat outside. (That upper window only has a screen)  It seemed to happen at night when I opened the door to go in.  Badger suggested that it could be a gecko.  He said they scream when they are startled.  Bernie thought it was the plumbing but we never could figure it out.
Not sure what was crawling around in the walls and ceiling, cats or iguanas.  Sherry heard them above 401 and SNF heard them in 403.  Sherry made Tom get out of bed and inspect the room twice.