The Mexican Diaries: Wasting Away the Days

Our days in Manzanillo can probably be summed up into just a few words: hot sun, lounge chairs, pool, pina coladas, whiskey sours, pool bar. We are "wasting away in margaritaville" (although nobody seems to be drinking margaritas until dinner).

So Dave and I are our typical selves, sleeping in, getting to the breakfast buffet just in time to get breakfast, which we enjoy on the patio overlooking the pool. We meet up with the Albertans poolside. They've been up for hours and Cindy, Rhonda and Kyndra have already been somewhere, usually it seems into town to Wal Mart. Apparently this is pretty much all to see there. They would end up visiting Wal Mart three times over the course of the trip. Yep...travel all the way down to Manzanillo to your beautiful all inclusive vacation and hit Wal Mart THREE times. (Well where else do you buy a speedo I guess. And oh yes, we were so appreciative of those floaties. And okay, I did feel very special that you made the trip again to get me chocolate and a bra!)

I was lucky enough on our first day at the pool to aquire myself a "pool bitch". Mike unfortunately forgot his cigarettes. I was happy to lend him mine, on the condition that he would have to be my "pool bitch", allowing me to just have Mike get my drinks, light my cigarettes and any other such activities that I was just too lazy to do myself. Well, really, it only consisted of him ordered my drinks and me calling out "hey pool bitch...". I don't think he thought it was as fun as I did...he remembered his cigarettes the next day and I was on my own.

Anyways, the days are spent lounging, splashing in the water, drinking pina coladas, eating the best guacamole I've ever had (lunch is ordered and served to you poolside - like how tough is this life?!!) and having a lot of laughs with our new found friends. Dave is starting on is project "Whiskey Sour Conversion" and I think by the end of the first day he has one or two converts. I have declared pina coladas to be smoothies, and therefore, not really a "drink", making it perfectly acceptable to order them at any time and in any quanitiy. I believe there was complete consenus to this. Mike was genius enough to bring along his iPod system thingy so we had great music all day. Him and Jeff provided great entertainment by chair dancing for all. You probably had to be there, but it was quite funny.

I'm not really sure how to describe just how much fun we were having. No cares in the world, other than "my glass is empty" "should we order a drink here or swim to the pool bar?" "should we get some food?" "it's hot, i'm going in the pool"...you get the picture. We had so many laughs, but I don't think I can adequately describe it all in a way that anyone who wasn't there will actually find funny. So I will let some pictures do the the talking. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make them all line up nicely, so it's just a big line of pics. But hopefully you'll get the point!