Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Cancun!

Cancun!

Rebecca and I were invited by our friends Paul Garcia & Jenna Bradford (now Garcia) to attend their beautiful wedding on the 13th of September 2008 in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo (about 45 minutes South of Cancun). Six months before the wedding, we purchase our plane tickets and reserved our room at Hacienda Vista Real, the five-star hotel where the wedding would take place.

After a cancelled flight due to Hurricane Ike the night before we were supposed to leave and re-purchasing tickets through a different airline and being delayed for an hour on that flight. We swooped in just in time to see Paul & Jenna pronounced man and wife and kiss. They looked great and the hotel was beautiful.

Unfortunately, nothing on our trip was going in our favor. We were scheduled to see the pyramid ruins at Chichen Itza, but our tour shuttle didn't show up. So we decided to go to the HVR private beach, but we missed the scheduled shuttle for that because apparently the private beach was 40 miles away. So, we didn't really get to do anything we had planned and had we known what we know now, we would have never even gone. However, it was a beautiful place and we did enjoy our company, we just wish things would've gone right for us. Here is a collection of pictures that we took while we were there. Some are of the beach at Playa del Carmen and some are of the hotel (w/ Mike & Kristina Wolfe, Mike is my Engineer on Engine 262), our room and some of the things we saw while we were there. The big temple ruin-looking thing was the spa/pool fitness center. It was SO beautiful and relaxing. Enjoy!