Babymoon - Cozumel, Mexico, March 18, 2008

Early morning coffee once again woke me up and I let him in the door and Colleen stirred enough for us to decide to stay up.  Her appointment at the spa was today at 8 anyway and getting up at 6:30 wasn't too bad anyway.  We dressed quickly, I for the gym and her for the spa, and we went to have breakfast.  I ate somewhat light as I knew I would be on the treadmill for a good run.  I hadn't worked out in a couple of days and was actually looking forward to it.

Colleen wandered off to the spa, and I hit the treadmill.  Today was the first run I'd had in a while without any knee pain, without any serious trepidation, and the first time I'd been able to run for 10 minutes at 6.7 miles per hour.  In total, I managed 5.84 miles.  A small achievement in my life, but it was quite satisfying.

I went to the beach to stake our claim while Colleen whiled away the time at the spa.  Unfortunately, today was by far the windiest day since our arrival.  Gusts in excess of 25 miles per hour peppered the beach and I battled a constant spray of sand in my eyes and ears and into the case surrounding my iPhone.  I managed 35 minutes on the beach before I'd had enough and came up to the room to wait for Colleen.  She of course chose to go down to the beach to see where I was and then saw me on our patio overlooking the ocean and came up to see why I wasn't on the beach.  I told her I'd go back down if she wanted, but that the wind buffeting me the entire time had taken its toll and I wasn't too keen on a repeat performance.

We did make it to the beach and spent about another hour or so including time in the ocean before she decided the sand in her eyes was too much as well.  We went to have lunch and then came back to the room where we mostly sat, napped, and did little.

A brief interlude in all of this was that for some reason our keys ceased to work in the door.  Now, I realize that electronic key card keys can and do go bad, but to have had both go out at once seemed odd.  I went to the front desk, got a replacement and it didn't work either.  The bellman came up, took a key and went to get a replacement and it didn't work.  NICE!  How were we supposed to get in and out of our room when the only key that worked was a master key??  My only solace in this was that 5 other couples on 3 other floors also reported the same issue to the front desk.

The resort being at the extreme North West side of the island has one drawback.  We're really isolated from what little services the island can offer.  The one ATM here at the resort was down all day.  In this cash driven economy, it posed more than a bit of a problem.  We were out of cash, literally down to change, and we didn't even have enough to ride down into town to get more money.  So, I dug into the safe and pulled out some good old dollars.  We had gotten a few back as change during our shopping, so I could only hope that if we used it to get into town that the ATM there would be open and we'd be able to get enough cash out to get a cab back to the hotel.  We got lucky and indeed the ATM there worked.  I suspect the one here just ran out of cash again.

Dinner tonight was in town.  We chose a pretty popular place named Guido's.  They served relatively traditional Italian cuisine in the heart of downtown.  We arrived just before the rest of the crowds did.  We were not disappointed.  They even had Crown Royal in the bar, so I was in heaven.

Back to the room after dinner and a quiet evening.  Colleen is fast asleep as I finish this up and we've not put out the early coffee sign intending to sleep in tonight.  We'll see.  I am sad to see this will be our next to last night, though at the same time, I am pretty much done with the resort and vacation.  Sleeping in your own bed is always a better thing.

Cheers!