Mexican Getaway

I have been in school for 17 years. Of those 17 years, I never went anywhere for spring break. This year being the first year that I am in school and not the student, Sam and I decided that it was time to get away for Spring Break. We LOVED our trip to Cancun almost three years ago, so we decided that Mexico would be the destination. We also thought that it would be much warmer closer to the equator in March. Needless to say, it was an absolute awesome vacation!

We left on Saturday afternoon and traveled ALL day to Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Our resort was very fancy pants and after walking around noticed that there was more of an older crowd hanging around. It was cool with us though. We made friends with our lounge chair neighbors everyday.

We spent the first two days laying around the pool. The pool was made for me! It has lounge chairs at the edge of the water, so I could still layout with the coolness of the water. It is my kind of laying out!


We spent a lot of time in the sun, so on the third day we decided to take a trip into town. We took a taxi from the hotel. Our taxi drivers name was Alex. There were several Alex's actually. Easy to not forget a name, I suppose. Anyways, we were dropped off on 5th Ave. We spent the first hour and a half walking one little side of 5th Ave. We didn't understand what the hype was in this street. After finally finding our way to this gorgeous beach...

..we decided it was time for lunch. After lunch, we decided to head in a different direction and we were amazed! There were so many shops and restaurants. This was the place that people had been telling us all about. We walked and walked and walked, but never bought anything! It was truly an amazing feat. :)

We spent a couple of more days by the pool and then headed out into Mexico once again. This time we took a day and traveled to Tulum to see the Mayan ruins and then to X-la. It was an amazing day. We got to spend the day seeing all of God's awesome work. It was one of the most beautiful and interesting things that I have seen.






After seeing the ruins, we traveled about 20 more minutes to X-La. We got to snorkel and travel through a very long "jungle"ly place. We saw several zebra fish (my fav), Dorie fish, really big fish, really small fish, and three sting rays!






That night we got to have dinner with a true Irishman. Ironically enough, his name was Patrick from Dublin, Ireland! What a way to end Saint Patty's Day! :)

We spent the rest of our vacation soaking up as many rays as we possibly could. I got a little dark..and by little I mean a lot! Sam, my tanless man, actually got a TAN!! Not burnt an actual tan! This is a pretty big deal!



We had the most relaxing week of the year while in Mexico. We got to reconnect and let go of all the things that had been stressing us back home. We can't wait to plan our next getaway.