• drinking
• hanging out by the pool
• I got sunburned on my lips, its pretty gross.  On Wed. a bartender asked if it was from kissing too much (cute).
•   - Shopping at a Mall we were told about on the bus ride from the  airport, plus there's a Pat O'Brians there.  Had a couple huracanes,  tosted our fist trip to Paty Os when we first met.  Not our last trip to Paty Os.

• a little less drinking
• 8am pickup for a trip to Xel Ha  an outdoor park with jungle hikes....

• Walking tour.  Did some cliff jumping, pretty high, about the same as back in Briacliff, but there were no concrete slabs or steel rods to clear like back home.
• Lunch.  They said it was a hamburger, but it wasn't a hamburger.  The waiter said it was beef mixed with oatmeal.  It looked and tasted more like scrapple, I ate it, Mich didn't.
• Dolphin swim.  There were three groups of six of us.  Each group gets 2 dolphins and an instructor.  The guy tells us a bit about the dolphins including where, and how we can play with the fish (I know). Then they take a picture of each person getting a kiss from their fish (not seen here yet). The fish do a few tricks, then into the water we go.  It was EXCELLENT. Mich, some little girl and I got to play with one who was very friendly. She like being petted, and I think she liked me the most.  She kept following me around.  One of the other ones was getting a bit rambunctious and almost smacked little girl with his tail.  We were in for about 30min, but it felt longer.
• more drinking

• Took it easy (drank)
• Played miniature golf
• went in the city of Cancun - NEVER DO THIS.  We lasted about 30min before the CONSTANT harsment from the shop owners at the flea martket drove us out.  Now, I don't mind haggeling, even if I'm not too good at it, and I still get ripped off, at least I feel some satisfaction by getting them the lower the price.  What I dont like is the people, all the people, trying to drag you into their both. So we exchanged some money at the bank (a much better rate than at the hotel, or the mall) and went home.  The bus system around Cancun was very good, $.50 for anywhere.
• dinner
• Knick - Heat game at the All-Star Cafe.  Shitty game, best Margaretas I've ever had. I wish van Gungy would just leave Starks in the game.  This was where Mich found, much to our budgets detriment, how much she liked drinking and shopping.  We probably spent as much money that night as we did for our entire stay, including meals and drinks at the Resort (We got the room free from an unused time share of a friend of Michelle's and on the second day we sold off an extra room in our suite, which we weren't using anyway, for free food/drinks)

Thursday

•     - 7:30am pickup for a trip to Chichenitza (sp).  Kicked Ass.  This was my fovorite.  We got a 2hr tour of the area.  Pok-a-pok (sp) courts, a ball game where either the winners or the lossers (still some debate about this) captain gets his head cut off after the game (I'm not to clear on this whole head-cutting off thing, but the Mayans seem to have done alot of it).  The wall of heads, where they display the severed heads.  More sacraficial temples.  A well where they sarcificed babies (again with this not understanding thing on my part). We went the Obervatory. They let you climb in and out of alot the stuff.  Then an hour to poke around which was  when we went up the big pyramid.  At first Mich wasn't going to go up, so I left her the back pack and climbed up.  This sucker is steap.  Got to the top.  Waved to Mich, she took my picture, I tried waved for her to come up, she didn't.  I went into the shrine at the top of the temple, came out, and Mich stared up the pyramid like a turtle with the backpack.  I thought she was going to fall.  I could see the headlines "New Bride Forced to Carry Backpack Dies Falling From Pyrmid As Selfish Dumb-Ass Husband Watched From Above".  But she made it, we looked around a bit, then down we went.  Now the problem with the pyramid isn't so much going up, as it is going down.  This time I did carry the backpack, I walked down, nearly falling a couple times, and Mich joined a long line of people going down on there buts.  I hope that picture comes out. The pyramid actually has another pyramid inside it, like a Russian toy or something. Its only open for a couple hours at a time because, the guide said, the oxygen runs out.  I forgot to go, I guess I was so happy to survive the big pyramid, plus we were out of time anyway.   

• Snorkeling.  We got two people motor boats and caravaned out through some swampy/jungle (I looked like the Bayoo tour we took on the air boat in Lousianna)  out into the ocean.  They really let you open up the boats, but the person in front of us was kinda slow.  We got out to the second larget reef in the world and did some snorkelling.  Beautifull.  No sharks.  Then we motored back to shore, this time we paralled the coast for a good bit, pretty close in so we were jumping the waves.
• Mall.  I went to Paty O's, read, drank and smoked a big ass Cuban. Mich drank and shopped, and shopped, and shopped.
• Big-ass rain storm.  Awesome.  The only problem was the bus ride back.  I mentioned the $.50 rides, what I didn't mention was that they drive these things like NYC cab drivers, and they didn't letup much because of the weather.

• back home (view from our room)