We then had to rush home because our flight left in a few hours and we still hadn't packed anything. So we hurried home and got our things together. Luckily, we didn't really plan on needing much more than a swimsuit and maybe one or two nice outfits for going out. I had promised both my father and father-in-law that I was going to make sure to stay in the resort and not venure outside. But hey, I was in Cabo.
This was my first time out of the country so I was pretty excited. But also pretty nervous about traveling there. Our flight left on Sunday night and we had a layover in Denver. Our flight out of Denver left at 6am on Monday morning so my mother-in-law was nice enough to hook us up with a hotel near the airport in Denver. We got to our room around midnight, ate the picnic we had packed in the Eddie Bauer bag that Erin's parents had gotten us and got a few hours of rest. We had to get up at 4:30 to catch the shuttle back to the airport.
We got on our flight and headed to Pheonix for another layover, then finally landed in Cabo. John booked our trip through a travel agency and they had warned us that, when we get off the plane, go STRAIGHT outside, don't stop and talk to anybody because there would be people that would say they were with the company we booked with but were actually travel agencies. They weren't kidding. There were TONS of people. They were saying anything they could to try and get us to stop, even claiming that they needed to see our passports. We made it outside and borded our shuttle. Our driver didn't speak much english but one of the passengers asked him if he liked 'cervesa' (beer). I guess the driver was confused because he stopped at a convenience store and picked up beer for everyone to sip on while we drove to the hotel. Thankfully, he didn't have one.
We got to the resort and it was GORGEOUS. It was a palace. We walked in and they automatically hand you a marghareta. Our room wasn't quite ready so John and I walked around a bit, and hung out the on the balcony, and took the first tequilla shot of the trip.
When our room was ready, John immediately walked over to the thermostat and turned it down to 60. We were very thankful for this later in the week when the temperature was over 100 for most of the day. We suited up and headed to the pool. That ended up being where we spent a great deal of our time during the trip. It was also the place that I got a wicked sunburn on the second day. It was just so gorgeous, the water was heated just enough from the sun and there was a swim-up bar and awesome people.
I think that was one of my favorite parts of the trip was how many people we met. We met couples from all over the united States, all there on their honeymoons.
The resort had a few theme restaurants that we went to the first few nights, but decided to go into Cabo for some food toward the end of the week. The food we had was amazing in the city. We went to Mi Casa and to El Squid Roe. Squid Roe was kind of a tacky theme restaurant that I would compare to TGI Fridays only with MUCH better food.
One of the last nights we were there, we watched some performances at the resort with one of the couples that we had met and then hit up the 'bibliotecha' (dance club). It was actually really neat.
While we were there, we decided to go adventuring a little bit so we signed up for an excursion called 'beach hoppers'. We met at a marina and boarded these crazy little speed boats with seats that you actually had to mount. They took us on a tour around the bay and showed us some of the tourist attractions. We went scuba diving in two different spots and it was amazing. It was weird though, I really didn't think I would be scared of scuba diving. But when I put my face into that water and saw how many fish there were, I panicked a little and startled flayling around widly for a few minutes. I think I was a site. We had some lunch at a local bar and headed back.
The whole trip was amazing. It was great to wake up when I wanted, stay in the pool as long as I wanted, eat whatever and whenever I wanted...it was so relaxing. The last day we were there, we went into the city again so I could buy some gifts and so we could get some lunch.
We headed home on Saturday night so that we could have Sunday to rest. Amazingly we actually went out that night, only so we could give Jim the Bears Poncho that we bought from a street vendor in the city.
