Cancun: Day 1

Woah … today was a crazily long day of travelling, travelling and more travelling. We woke at 4am, took a taxi to Newark Airport in New Jersey and boarded our plane for Charlotte and Cancun, Mexico.

Both flights were fairly uneventful, although we had plenty of time in Charlotte to explore the airport. Which we didn’t really do, as there really wasn’t a lot to do there, aside from eat and watch the flights leave. After 2hrs that gets old!

Arrived in Cancun to a lovely warm day – 28 degrees and sunny! Oh, how I could get used to this! We made it to our hotel relatively OK [thanks to Ange's research] (bus from airport to downtown Cancun and walked from there) and decided to go exploring. It was 4pm by this time, so we went to the supermarket and bought some water and other supplies. We went exploring around the block and saw the hotel we will be checking into for our Gecko’s tour in a few days. To be honest, it looks nicer than our current one.

We’re staying at Hotel Magaritas and it’s quite nice. The room is large, airy and has a balcony. The balcony does look out onto the pool, but also the backyards of all of the other places on the block – so it’s not the nicest view in the world! The big plus is the TV and Universal Channel. This channel is awesome – 24hr English language movies. And so it was that we watched the Whole Nine Yards eating ice cream! How Mexican is that?! Haha.

Had my first ‘real’ Mexican dinner tonight too – chicken fajitas and beer Blanca. Mmm… so good!