Robert & Barbara: Wet, Wild, & Wicked Weekend - May, 2001

What a great trip!  Our stomach muscles have never had such a workout from laughing!   

Even though Bob warned us not to give a lot of boring airport trip details, I will clarify that the taxi ride to CRC is $40..whether you have 1 or 4 people.so if someone is coming to CRC on the same flight, go ahead and plan on sharing the ride.   

Unlike Dianes experience clearing Cancuns immigrations, when we got off the plane, everyone got in the Passport line and hardly anyone was in the No-Passport line.

So, even if you have a passport, go ahead and bring your certified birth certificate and drivers license.  Bringing both lets you have a choice.   Okayenough airport info  

The resort is great!  No downer report here!  We were prepared to hate the alcohol, never sleep once due to the hard beds, and to only see one or two smiling waiters/bartenders. Fortunately, none of this was true.  Sure, we usually dont drink JB scotch at home and usually drink better wine, but after the first 1 or 2 drinks, who cares?  And, I must have slept thru the worries about the hard beds.and everyone who waited on us was smiling and laughing and usually got the order right.  (If the order was wrong, it was fixed immediately).  Robert is a big (non-conspicuous) tipper so that probably helped.  We never had to wait hours to get our food like some reports said.  We must have been there on good days.   My only recommendations to the resort would be to invest $100 per room for new shower heads and an in room safe (not that we heard of any problems).  Some A/C for the disco would also be nice.  Do not wear a lot of clothes if you plan on dancing!  (WWWers usually do not have a problem with this suggestion!) Otherwise, we loved everything.  

When we checked in, we got a downstairs unit as we had requested, but our room had 2 double beds in it instead of a king.  Charles moved us the next day as soon as one had become available.  The new rooms king bed was really squeaky (anytime we moved, it squeaked like nails on a chalk board).   I am sure whoever was in the room next door must have thought Robert was a superman and that we never slept all night!   We looked at the frame the next day and discovered that it was broken so we just moved the mattress on the floor and did the 70s bed thing. The maintenance men at the resort immediately tried to replace the frame but we told them just to wait until we left  

On Wednesday, we had a nice, get acclimated, kind of day and an early night.  Things changed a bit on Thursday when the rest of the WWWers arrived.  Most of us hung out by the pool.  The waiters would come around and take drink orders which was a nice thing.  

Thursday night was black and glow night and my outfit was a bit comical.  With strategically placed lights, I became MR. BILL!   Mr. Bill had a great time dancing!!  

Friday was more poolage with a fierce Round the Figure 8 Pool raft race. (Watch those steps!)  More laughing .drinking.laughing..drinkingyou get the picture. Robert and I had a massage side by side under the palm trees near the pool.  It was pretty good although I have had better massages.  We had 2 women give the massages, but I think the one that Robert got was in training so I think I got the better end of that deal.  And, as Cathy can attest to, be sure to rinse all the sand off of you before you go or your massage will be a body exfoliation instead!  

Friday night, Mardi Gras night, was mine and Roberts anniversary and we appreciated the toast at dinner.  Thank you Mike and everyone.   It really is amazing that you can feel so close to friends that you just met 2 days earlier.  

Saturday, we hung out on the beachwhich, here again, was nicer than we had anticipated.  You cannot float in the water like at Hedo but you can snorkel around the jetties and see a lot (according to Robert and Denis).  

Saturday night was fun too!  Thanks to Denis finding Addicted to Love, Lin finally got her dancing debut.  (Oh, I forgotit was Lins evil twin sister!)  Too bad she never noticed that Antonio? was on the edge of the dance floor wanting a lap dance..  

Once again, thanks to Denny and Dyan for helping us find new life long friends.  The WWW group is always the best!  We laughed and laughed.  Between learning how to get new jewelry, watching Robert experiment with a sarong, listening to Denis telling his great stories and speaking spanish (or is that Mexicano?), trying to win the Best couple contest (Bob, I think we are winning!), avoiding the scuba diving students from the resort next door swimming around us in the pool, and watching the nightly pole dancing competitions (3 way tie between Jan, Lin and LUIS/Antonio?), I think that future vacations cant get any better.but then again, if we continue to travel with this wonderful bunch of people, I am sure they will! 

 Robert & Barbara