From One Island to Another

We got back into Houston just after noon and headed back to Austin. We stopped in Brenham and had some lunch at Casa Ole. We both got the Cozumel plate, I mean come on, would we have gotten anything else?! When we got home Laura got a big surprise. Brian Ritter, of Protective Coating and Remodeling had a new Island installed in the kitchen while we were gone. Before we left Brian and I had it all planned out, so that Laura would come home to a big surprise. And was she ever surprised. She absolutely loved it. They did an awesome job on it. With our incredible new addition to the house our old island seemed so small since we had so much extra room in our kitchen. If I haven't said it enough through the whole building process, Protective Coating and Remodeling has done an AWESOME job. We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening around our own paradise hanging out in the pool and hot tub. It was like we were still in Mexico, other than we had to get our own cocktails. We do miss our bartender, Hillario. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Day 8

It was an early morning. My eyes look a little tired for some reason. We had to be down for breakfast at 7am. It's been a while since we have been up this early. There were some clouds in the sky and we had a morning rain. We have a lot of great memories, made some new friends and have a little less stress from our new found paradise. The exciting thing is we knew we had a paradise waiting for us at home. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Night 7

We met up at the bar with our great new friends from Germany, Carsten and Peyman. Carsten is a Financier. He currently lives in Switzerland and is taking some time off to travel. Peyman is a dentist and lives in Wiesbaden, Germany. This was Peyman's first holiday in 7 years. I would say it was about time. Take a look at Peyman's website. The building he is in is over 200 years old. They are going to be in Mexico for 2 weeks. From here they are off to Cancun for a week. We had a great time at the bar with our friends. Nothing like having cocktails with friends in paradise. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Day 7

Today was another awesome day. After our great breakfast Laura and I went down and rented a wave runner. Talk about an incredible experience. Nothing like riding up and down the crystal blue waters jumping the waves. After our fun ride we headed back to the pool. Our friends we met day one, from San Antonio, Carlos and Diva were hanging out too. They were there celebrating their 37th anniversary. Later that afternoon Laura and I took a snorkeling excursion out on the Fury. It is a big catamaran that takes you out to a couple of places to snorkel. We saw all kinds of colorful fish, stingray and baracudda. After snorkeling they served cocktails on the way back to the resort. Aaahh yes...nothing sucks about that whole experience. It was incredible. We ended the evening at Vista Del Mar for dinner and then back to Sabor to the outdoor bar. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Day 6

Today we started out with a great breakfast as usual. Then it was on to a day sitting at the pool and lunch at Mosaique. We had an awesome afternoon at the beach and ended it with dinner at Roberto's with our new friends from Germany Carsten Hoffman and Peyman Hodawandkhani. They were on holiday for a couple of weeks. Now that is the way to take a holiday. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Day 5

Now that's the way to read. Gotta love our bartender Hillario's office. Talk about a fun way to get down to the main pool from the rooms, right outside the bottom floor rooms is a wading pool that has a slide that ends up in the main pool. Nothing like coming down the slide and ending up right at the swim up bar. After dinner at Vista Del Mar, we spent an evening with our new friends Evan and Ellen from Wichita, Kansas at the Aura bar. We ended up back at the Sabor bar. Then we headed over to the beach bar restaurant. Who would have known that they were open till 1am and they serve Cheeseburgers. Nothing like a cheeseburger in paradise after a late night in a paradise bar. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Day 4

Just another day in paradise. After breakfast we took a cab into town and did a little shopping. We started out at an outdoor mall and ended up at our favorite island restaurant and store, Margaritaville. One the cab ride back we saw a familiar cruise ship in the harbor. It was back to another fantastic afternoon of lounging, reading, cocktails, pool, swim up bar and ended it with an evening of great food at Roberto's Italian restaurant. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Day 3

I could really get use to this schedule. Get up, go down to breakfast, grab some towels, head over to a lounge chair, swim over to the bar and bring back some cocktails, read a little, go for a cheeseburger, fries and chips and guacamole at lunch, back to the pool or out to the beach to lounge and read, sleep or just enjoy the perfect life, cocktail in hand of course, back to the room around 7pm to get ready for an 8:15pm dinner, eat a fantastic dinner at Vista Del Mar overlooking the beach, head over to the outdoor bar to hang out for a bit and back up to the room. One other exciting thing we did this afternoon was to take out a catamaran and sail up and down the crystal blue waters in front of the resort. Aahhh yes...just another day in paradise! Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Night 2

Tonight we went to the Mexican buffet by the pool. Then it was off to our night out in downtown Cozumel at Carlos and Charlies and Senior Frogs. Just another night in Paradise. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Day 2

Ahh yes...our day started out with breakfast. Talk about an incredible breakfast. Nothing like starting out with an omelet, bacon, juice and a little Bailey's in your coffee. From there we made it over to the lounge chairs by the pool. Hillairo, our bartender, was always there ready to serve us some type of cocktail. Around lunch time we made it over to the beach restaurant for cheeseburgers, fries and chips and guacamole. I mean come on we are in paradise...what else are we going to eat for lunch. Then it was over to the lounge chairs at the beach. It was like we were filming a Corona commercial. Cheers!

Just Another Week in Paradise Day 1

Laura and I flew out of Houston on Friday morning. We arrived in sunny Cozumel Mexico just before 10 am. Aaahhh yes, our week long anniversary trip has begun. We stayed at the Wyndham all-inclusive resort. It is a smaller resort with everything you could possibly need. We upgraded to Sabor, the adults only side of the resort. No...not that kind of adults only. Sabor had it's own restaurant, bar and a pool with a swim up bar. We were very impressed that there were 3 restaurants that had table service and 2 restaurants that served buffets at the resort. We made our weeks worth of dinner reservations, for 8:15 pm, at the table service restaurants when we checked so we were guaranteed a seating. After some lunch on the beach. Wait let me back up, after we had a couple of drinks checking things out, we had lunch at the restaurant on the beach. I mean come on, we are on vacation and the drinks are included. Please...like we would be walking around without some drinks. We headed over to Sabor hung out around the pool until our room was ready. Once we got checked into our room, we headed back down for some more pool time. Yes this is what it's all about. After our pool time we headed up to get ready for dinner. We had reservations at Mosaique, the Asian fusion restaurant. Dinner was great. We ate outside on the patio overlooking the pool. After dinner we did something we haven't done in a really long time...we went to bed before 10:30pm. Cheers!