Vacation was wonderful. I could lie and say it was boring or the weather was bad or the food was awful to make you feel better, but it was all good. So much of vacation is expectation. We dream and ponder what a certain place will be like, and we begin to imagine ourselves there-what we will see and do and experience. Hubby and I spent hours on Trip Advisor before and after we made our reservations trying to figure out what we would enjoy doing the most. It gave us great ideas, but in the end, you just have to go and roll with it. You have to be willing to let go of expectations that aren't jiving with the realities of the place you find yourself in and choose to make the best of it. The most fun things are often born out of the spontaneous--and out of the being open to whatever or whoever comes your way. Vacation is a lot like life that way.
The resort was gorgeous, with great food and beautiful pools.
One of the best days we had was the day we rented a car and explored outside of the resort. We had heard about cenotes, and went off to explore. Cenotes are sinkholes, where underground water sources have eaten away the limestone and then the surface rock has collapsed in. A not very appealing description of some of the most beautiful places we've seen. Imagine Mammoth Cave underwater--and you snorkeling over the top of it. As the rainwater seeps through the soil into a cenote, it filters it, and you end up with almost no "suspended particulate matter". Which is a fancy way to say it is very, very clear water. There are very few fish. Dale is actually several feet underwater in the second picture. This is Gran Cenote.
The real show is under the water, as you can see in this video taken by scuba divers in the cenote:
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