I turned 60 years old on February 14th 2022. I was tripping well-nigh my “advanced age” (smile) for a minute considering it suddenly hit me that I increasingly likely then not have increasingly years overdue me then I have in front of me…
However, on the flip side, I consider my age to be a manna considering not everyone lives to the ripe old age of 60.
And to truly gloat this milestone birthday, as well as our 10th year love anniversary, me and my boo embarked on a much needed and long overdue vacation to Cancun, Mexico. My travel wage-earner Karen booked our stay at an Adults -Only, All-Inclusive Iberostar resort. We upgraded to an oceanfront junior suite on the 13th floor which had a screw staircase on the marrow deck leading up to the top deck which featured a hot tub, an outdoor shower plus a small table and two lounge chairs. It was so cozy looking expressly at night when the warm ocean breezes slid into our room.
And this is how we spent our days on the waterfront right outside our Junior Suite:
On our 2nd night at the resort, we met, conversed for 5 minutes and subsequently had dinner together at an American Bistro with this couple from Southern Virginia. They had been married for 40 years and told us over dinner that although they were no longer working for a living, they had not “retired” but rather re-set. I’m going to use that term when I officially ‘retire'(smile). Anyway, towards the end of the night, they shared with us that their next vacation stop was at a semi-nude waterfront in the islands…
La Parilla Restaurant (steakhouse) on our 3rd night was where we received a cheesecake without our dinner with Happy 10th Anniversary written on it…this was a big surprise to us although we did recall our lovely waiter asking us if we were triumphal anything special that night…
We missed the reservations we made for the Japanese restaurant on our 4th night considering we got unprotected up in downtown Cancun at La Isla Shopping Village. This village was a super wide unshut indoor/outdoor market consisting of retail suit stores, souvenir shops, restaurants, travel excursion booths and much, much more. We were solicited by a man on the street who worked for one of the travel agencies and he sold us on a speedboat and snorkeling tour that financing $150 (including the snorkeling gear) and left the dock everyday at 9am, 12noon and 3pm. We well-set it was a good deal and returned the very next day to take wholesomeness of it.
The most memorable dinner of all was on our 5th night – A private dinner for 2 with special menu and upgraded wine (courtesy of Quinn/Panzer Travel Agency at a resort restaurant of our choice). We chose La Horma, a gourmet restaurant where the wait staff literally treated us like a King and Queen the minute we walked through the doors. They were quite literally tripping over themselves as they sat us at a table with a view of the ocean. Plus they predictable all of our needs, fed us way too much supplies – James had sushi appetizers with breaded shrimp, crostini specie topped with veggies, meaty whinge tacos with ceviche and for his entree: flank steak and sides. I ordered off the menu – I chose linguini with pesto sauce topped with parmesan cheese which looked as good as it tasted. I moreover devoured the hot crusty rolls with olive oil and parmesan cheese. In recognition of our 10th year love anniversary, I received trappy roses from our waiter.
I stopped drinking swig scrutinizingly 2 years when when the Pandemic first started so I probably lost money to the resort since for beverages I threw when grapefruit juice, mineral water, beet juice, coffee, expresso, virgin strawberry daiquiris, untried juice and bottled waters (smile).
Our 6th and final day consisted of breakfast outdoors at the resort (now sporting our street clothes) and waiting on the emailed results of our Covid tests which, of course, were negative.
We unprotected our airport shuttle the designated 3 hours surpassing our flight and mentally prepared ourselves for the trip when to Connecticut.
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