Blog # 42: CANCUN 10

Thursday was our last “full day” in Cancun and we all wanted to make the best of it. After our morning walk to the Starbucks downtown we headed back up to our resort room to jump into our swimsuits. It was only 9:30 when we headed for the beach and the last thing on our mind was protecting our skin from the sun by wearing sun screen. We had no idea what kind of disaster was headed our way.
Before we walked out to the beach, we stopped at the ice machine to fill our cooler so we could keep our bottled drinks cold. As we were drinking and enjoying the sun rays we took many pictures of us on the beach. I even decided to hand craft a massive sea turtle in the tan sand. It took me approximately 30 minutes to create this masterpiece. I started with the huge shell and then created his head, fins, legs, and tail. This turtle was adorable. By passers walking by even took pictures of the creature. I decided to name the turtle sandy.
We were out on the beach for approximately 6 hours straight. We were drinking nothing but alcoholic beverages which means we were dehydrating ourselves. I started to feel my shoulders and back begin to burn from the dangerous sun rays. My sister and dad showed signs of early sunburn. By this point, sun screen was going to do us no good but we all decided to cake the lotion on our body.
It was getting to be about 4:30 PM and we decided to go upstairs to our room to clean up for dinner. We had plans to go to an authentic Mexican Restaurant and Mexican show that night with Max. We were excited because Max told us that it was like a Mexican Luau.
After we all got ready and waited in the lobby, my sister, dad, and I begin to start shaking with chills. We soaked up so much sun that a normal room temperature was frigid to our body. We were to the point of being miserable. My sister and I were dressed in evening dresses and we both ran upstairs to grab a jacket. I was relieved to have something on my shoulders because I was freezing and uncomfortable.
We traveled on a long bus ride to a horse stable where the show was going to be located at. We all ate dinner that consisted of Mexican tamales, enchiladas, tostadas, rice, beans, and everything you could think of a Mexican would fix. It was delicious! The Mexican show was somewhat boring. It really wasn’t my thing. We were all miserable from shaking with cold chills that we forgot to enjoy the show.
The show lasted an entire 4 hours! I thought I was going to die because I was to the point of hyperventilating. After we finally got to the room we all rushed to the aloe vera that was in our room so we could lather it on. We didn’t want to be miserable on the flight home so we did whatever we could to eliminate our chills.