User blog:Forestpaw13/Foresty's Tip to Mexico - Foresty Style

Lalallalalala. I'm back from Mexico, obsessed over a new story all week, nom.

You wanna hear more? Well, shoo-ware! This is Foresty Style, after all.

Raleigh/Durham International
Nearest to where I live. Not saying exactly where.

Nothing really important. But I made it past security safely, if you want to hear. Bought some candy to eat while I was waiting, it was good. :)

Charlotte International
Well, we land and RUN FOR OUR LIVES (Dad calls it the O.J. Simpson) to the next gate, to find it's delayed 'cause of rain. That was where my first "Stuck in the Airport" blog came from. xD

But we got on okay, so... yeah.

Cancun
Okay. We land in Cancun and get into the country. The lady person stamped our passports (I have a BAD picture, did I mention?). We went to Customs. All we had to do was (OMG) walk through a line. If you were lucky, nobody in your group got randomly searched. (Nobody in my family did.)

Then we go outside to find a representative from Lomas Travel, our transportation to the hotel and then back from it.

We sat in front of some rapid-fire-Spanish speakers on the ride there. O.o'

Coming Home
Soooo. Long night. Day. Whatever.

Cancun
We bought lunch and then took off. With some stuff in-between. You'll be happy to find that it's like a normal airport, despite the fact that Spanish is, like, the main language. But English was a close second.

Charlotte
So we land and are shoved through a LONG FREAKING LINE so we can just ENTER THE COUNTRY. It took at least 30 minutes until we were all the way through.

We claimed Mom's bag- not too hard- made it through customs, and realized we missed our flight.

Wait. We missed our flight! [Insert many curse words here] So. We talked to a woman, and got our ticket switched to fly on Standby. Which, is, basically, if there's a seat left, you get to sit there. It's very freaky for a first-time standby-er. xD

Anyway, so we go through security again so we can make the flight and eat dinner. I had to surrender a souvenir, which really sucked. We have about two hours to kill in the airport, so I wrote another blog (see the last blog, called Stuck in the Airport... for an undefined amount of time). We had dinner at Chili's and went to the gate. No, we looked at hats because my little brother insisted and THEN we went to the gate.

Our name wasn't called to get on the plane for standby. But there 10 seats left. SO. My family (of four), another family (of five) and a random dude ran on without checking ID, passes, or any other crap like that. We put our bags in a place that would guarantee their safety, and plopped down on the plane. I got a window seat, lucky MEE.

We take off. The night is beautiful. So many lights. It was COOL. COOLCOOLCOOL. So worth it. (Not really, I would have preferred less hassle...)

Turns out I chose to sit in front of a SCREAMING BABY. OMG. It was like... "Ignore stabbing reflex. Don't hurt tiny helpless screaming annoying baby. Ignore reflex. IGNORE THE REFLEX ANNIE! NOOOOOO" Jk jkjk. I did not stab the baby. I didn't think about it, either.

My recommendation: don't stab helpless screaming annoying babies.

The flight was about 40 minutes (including taxi), so... yeah.

Raleigh/Durham
Well. We get our bags, laugh with the family we managed to get on with, find our car, AND GO HOME. HOMEHOMEHOME.

We got home at about... um... 1:00 am? Late, anyway.

Iberostar Paraiso Lindo
Paraiso means "paradise", I think, and lindo means "nice". Nice Paradise. Good name, Mexicans. Five stars. xD

It had five pools. A sports pool (guess), a wave pool, a lazy river (pool xD), a pool, and a bar pool. YAY BAR POOL!

There were five hotels in the resort. We stayed in 55.

Technically, there were 55 hotels, but in our section, there were five. Live with it.

Anyway. We stayed in 5586.

Food. GOOD.

Pools. GOOD.

Beach. Never liked it.

Activities. FUN.

Annie's final rating: 5 stars. Out of five.

Snorkeling Excursion
Well, the snorkeling part SUCKED.

But the extra was awesome.

Get this. You swim out into the ocean. A coral-y mess. You sit on a little towel rolled up to look like a cylinder and the captain yells "WHOOT WHOOT!" and you take off.

It's like a parachute. Except it doesn't prevent you landing because you're flying and everyone's yelling "JUMP!"

So you jump. No doubt about it. It was FUN.

There was a guy named McKenzie (who names a guy that?) that was supercool. We hung out together and then I got teased. xD

Wildlife
Ya can't miss the wildlife.

I saw:
 * cats. About 4 were full-grown. There were 3 kittens.
 * an iguana.
 * fish. DUH
 * monkey!
 * toucan
 * Mexicans
 * a giant iguana
 * Mexican Raccoons. They have meerkat tails, pig snouts, make bird noises, and have raccoon eyes. O.o Everyone thought they were anteaters but they weren't. The little babies were cute.

Okay. That's all I can think of... xD