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!

Just Another Decade in Paradise

That's right we have been married 10 INCREDIBLE years!! 10 years ago today I got married to the most incredible girl in the world in Anguilla, BWI. Today we spent the entire day laying around our laid back resort. We are still working on the name for it. It will be announced once we are finished with this phase. All that is left is the cool decking. Anyway, back to our fantastic day. It started out having some Irish coffee and breakfast out by the pool. Mom stopped by and had a couple of cups with us. That reminds me, I need to get another bottle of Bailey's. After breakfast we ran to the store to pick up some steaks to grill later on in the evening. When we got back from the store, we got our swimsuits on and headed straight out to the pool. We still had a cooler full of drinks sitting out on the deck from Laura's party. I have been keeping them iced down all week. Although for some reason there aren't as many left in the cooler as there were at the beginning of the week. We pretty much did just what you see in these pictures all day long. The most work we had to do was getting up from the lounge chairs, walking over to the pool and sitting into the pool loungers. That can be hard work when you are trying to do it without spilling your drink. We had a lot of Buffett and other tropical music playing over the speakers. We grilled our steaks later in the evening and sat out by the pool for dinner. Then it was back to the loungers and into the hot tub. There was plenty of time in the hot tub during the evening. We watched the fireworks all across the horizon being set off. It is amazing the firework displays that are done every year for our anniversary. It was an absolutely INCREDIBLE day. We are heading out to Cozumel to an all-inclusive resort the end of next week for our anniversary trip. Laying on the beach with my gorgeous wife, eating some great food and bottomless cocktail glasses, now that is my idea of an anniversary trip to remember! (One great thing is with the paradise we have in our backyard, we always have someone who is ready to house sit while we are gone.) I do have to say, I am the luckiest guy in the world to be married to the most incredible girl in the world. And when I say incredible I mean INCREDIBLE!! I thank my lucky stars everyday for the exciting life we have together. Like I said, I am the luckiest guy in the world. Cheers!

Foxy Laura's 40th Disco Birthday Party

What an incredible night it was. Laura's disco birthday party was a full on DISCO INFERNO!! Over 60 people showed up to celebrate Foxy Laura's 40th birthday party. The night started out around 6:30 pm. It was like you stepped back in time with all of the fly threads everyone was wearing, the disco tunes playing and the disco lights flashing. Before the night was out, everyone got to see a DYNOMITE synchronized swim performance by none other than the birthday girl herself and my sister, Julie. You would have thought you were watching a variety show from the 70's. Check out this video - 70's Synchronized Disco Inferno. It will definitely be a night to remember. Cheers!

Paint It Up

The guys over at Protective Coating and Remodeling have done a fantastic job making our house look brand new again. It is amazing what a new coat of paint will do. We sure didn't want to have this amazing new addition being the only thing on our house that looked great. Cheers!

Hot Tub Finale

Today we saw a lot of exciting things happening to the hot tub. This is where it all comes together. First off I can't say enough great things about Gary's Pool and Patio. I had spoke to Mike Williams and Art Trevenio with Gary's Pool and Patio about a problem we noticed with one of the valves in the Hot Tub. They had a crew come out and take care of the issue. It is great to be dealing with a company that stands behind their work. They truly want to make sure you have a great experience with them. Today we also had Jesse Whitlock and his crew out finishing up the rock work on the hot tub. All of the rock is in place along with our great water fall that spills into the pool. Ahhh yes time to do some lounging in the hot tub. Cheers!

Keep On A Rockin

Jesse was back out today in full force. The hot tub is really coming together. He should be finished tomorrow with everything. It is coming out exactly how we wanted it. By the end of the day tomorrow, we should be ready to kick back with a cold one chillaxin in the hot tub! Cheers!

Rock On

Jesse Whitlock, of B & J Masonry, came out today and started on the hot tub rock. He is really doing a great job. I also spoke to Mike Williams, of Gary's Pool and Patio, today. They should be out tomorrow to adjust a couple of things on the hot tub. We are going to be in full on hot tub mode before you know it. You know what they say, if the hot tub is a rockin'...you must be at the Fritz house. Hhhmmm...maybe that's just us who say that. Cheers!