Our Trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Wednesday, April 16 - Sunday, April 20, 2008
You can imagine how excited I was to find out that Jay
won us a 4-day all-expenses-paid trip to the beautiful Sheraton Hacienda
Del Mar in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico through his company!!
We had an incredible time!! I would say that 75% of our trip involved
laying on beach chairs, reading, drinking frozen drinks, and swimming!
:-)
As for the other 25%...
Wednesday we arrived at the Sheraton and got all checked into our (gorgeous!)
room around 4:00 pm. We decided to take a walk on the beach, only to
discover the absolutly monsterous waves and we got our clothes soaked.
We quickly learned that they don't advise swimming in the ocean at this
resort, as the waves are huge!!! The resort was gorgeous - beautiful
trees, pools, rooms... you really could not ask for more. Wednesday
night Jay's company invited us to a cocktail party reception which was
fun. About 200 people from Jay's company were on the trip; we filled
up about 66% of the resort!
Thursday we slept in, ordered breakfast in our room, relaxed, read,
drank, ate lunch, lounged, drank more, swam, walked on the beach, had
sushi for dinner... it was a great day!!!
Friday morning, we went kayaking and snorkling which was fun. Some of
the kayaking was exhausting, and I was wondering, "WHY did I sign
up for this???" But afterwards it felt great to have exercised,
and the snorkling was cool. We kayaking once before, but it was on a
smooth lake in Alaska. This kayaking was on the rough ocean: a much
different story! We did it though -- all 3 miles! This was the first
time either of us has snorkled, and it was fun! After that escapade,
we ate lunch, napped and relaxed all afternoon, and then Jay's company
split us up into groups of about 30 for dinner at various restaurants
in San Jose; we ate at a place called El Azahar. Another great day!
Saturday was my 30th birthday!!!!!!! What an awesome way to spend my
birthday, right? I had a wonderful day. We ordered breakfast in our
room again - yummy! Then we spent the morning at the pool reading, swimming,
and drinking. Then we took a cab into the more touristy town of Cabo
and had a delicious authentic mexican lunch! We had fish, shrimp, and
lobster tacos, chips, guacamole, and salsa... And the BEST part was
that a mariachi band came in off the street and they sang happy birthday
to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously - best 30th birthday ever. :) After we
walked around town a bit, we went back to the resort, did more relaxing/drinking/swimming/reading,
and then had one last yummy dinner at the resort - pizza and birthday
cake! Happy birthday to me!
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