Amber & Marcus
View from our room
View from our room
Sneaky pic of Adam doing dolphin swim (no cameras were allowed)
Gem ready to go on the boat
Boat in the marina
Cabo San Lucas marina
Part of Cabo San Lucas
Boat ride
Fish through the glass bottom boat
One of the many sexy beaches along Cabo San Lucas
Land's End
Seals lazing on the rocks
Spring Break on the Cabo San Lucas beach...parties everywhere
Corona Car for Spring Break
Slim's Elbow Room (great Tequila bar) - Cabo San Lucas
Selection of Tequila's at Slim's Elbow Room
One of the great little taco places in Cabo San Lucas
One of the many Spring Break bars
Tacos Guss - BEST burritos and served by the sweetest girl (in the yellow)
Tacos Guss
View from the sun lounge at pool
View from the sun lounge at pool
Another view from the 'quiet' pool
View of sunset from our room
Dinner time
Dinner time
HOLA FROM CABO SAN LUCAS
Hola Amigos,
we have taken time out from getting cocktails at the swim up pool bar to write this so I hope you appreciate it!! Well we are now on our last leg of a 3 month trip in America. Mexico is all that we expected...and perhaps a little bit more. We arrived on Sunday after about fours worth of travel and airport waiting. We flew American Airlines down to San Jose Del Cabo but you might as well call it Spring Break Airlines...I mean this plan was chock full of sub 23yo, loud, scantly clad animals waiting to cut loose Cabo style. I would be lying if i said there wasn't a small part of me that wanted to be on Spring Break too but I was snapped back to reality by my reflection in the mirror during a toilet stop as well as my patient and understanding wife.
Anyhoo, we got a transfer to the Dreams Resort which is halfway between San Jose and Cabo San Lucas on the tip of the Baja peninsular. Its a large, all inclusive (well, nearly all as it turns out) hotel with multiple pools (should that be multipool??), swim up bars, restaurants and cozy nooks. It's located right on the beach and our suite overlooks the main pool and through to the best part of that white sandy beach...VERY COOL. The grounds are manicured like most 5 star coastal resorts and the staff are very friendly and keen to serve. Overall the food in the resort is occasionally good and sometimes downright bad...but its always edible and the drinks are fine.
So, Sunday night was spent having a quiet dinner with some friends from Perth who are now residing in Melbourne, Amber and Marcus. They arrived the day before on the first leg of their trip to the US so it was great to crossover for a few days in good 'ol Me-hi-co. Anyway, we met up at one of the beach bars for a Corona before hitting the Italian restaurant for a 'classy' meal. Why Italian I hear you ask? Well, it seemed like the best option at the time and as it turned out the food was fairly good. We were kind of tired and my back was playing up so we had an early night after our nice 3 course meal and a bottle of wine.
Monday began with a massage for me and a chill out for Gem. The health Spa was a great way to loosen up the back a bit before we hit the buffet breakfast at the patio restaurant overlooking the beach. Breakfast here is a food highlight and for us it usually consists of cereal, fruit and yogurt for starters followed by one of the nicest omelettes I have ever had...filled with bacon, ham, mozzarella, spinich, onion and occasionally tomato. This egg bad boy is always enhanced by the ever present guocamole and salsa. It is awesome...and we usually add some Mexican potato thingy and toast to the mix.
Wow...that was a detailed breakdown of brekkie. After that feast we all jumped into a cab and headed into Cabo San Lucas for our dolphin adventure and a boat ride out to Lands End (Seal Rock, the natural formed arch and some very sexy beaches on the Sea of Cortez). First up - Cabo Dolphins. Gem had booked me in for a swim with the dolphins a while back....unfortunately she was not able to join me given her round state but she was able to have some time with the dolphins in a different encounter group. So, we jumped into some wetsuits and joined our groups for some serious marine fun. Gem was in the group that were able to interact with the dolphins by patting them, feeding them, getting a kiss from them, etc...all from the safety of the shallow area of the pool. My group did all of that and more whilst floating in the deep end of the pool. Despite having reservations of such beautiful animals being kept in captivity i was pretty stoked at being able to interact with these marine dudes in such a way. Its moving stuff for any animal lover. One of the dolphins (the oldest female!?!) took a bit of a fancy to me and kept rubbing up against me...not like dirty dancing grinding or anything...just a harmless, semi-romantic yet fully platonic connection. I was the last person to do the dorsal swim (you know - where you hold onto the dorsal fin like that kid and Flipper) and my cheeky dolphin decided to dive underwater with me still hanging on...it was not part of the normal experience and most people were a little shocked but it was totally awesome. I could have spent all day swimming around with those rubbery guys but it was time to jump in a boat and head out through the gorgeous marina.
After some skillful bargaining from Amber (who has a sassy Spanish tongue) we piled into a smallish, glass bottom boat (with a bunch of Latin American Spring Breakers and their many $1 beers) and cruised slowly out to the point. It was pretty cool actually...our 'skipper' was kinda funny (he reckons the many local pelicans are called Mexican chickens and can be found at KFC); the glass bottom boat revealed a great many colourful fish and the scenery was pretty impressive. Oh...one thing i forgot to mention...on the way out of the marina we saw all of these sport fishing boats coming in with MASSIVE seals basically standing on the dive boards getting fed fish from the fishermen. It was the oddest thing to see these seals hitching rides from these boats. There are also a crap load of very expensive mega yaughts in this area and one of them was Denzel Washington's.
After a siesta and some pool time we then met up with Amber and Marcus again for a big night out in Cabo - SPRIIIING BREAK!! WHOO HOOOOOO!! I will keep this short as i have just realised how long this blog is taking me...we basically walked around Cabo San Lucas having a drink or two at each venue before landing back in our beds at about 2:30am (not bad for my future yummy mummy). Highlights included: seeing hundreds of young people partying their heads off at many different bars and clubs; the clothing (or lack there of) being worn by almost all of the girls; watching the large groups of leathered, old people who refuse to give up the notion of Spring Break; the many fine tequila shots; and finally, the authentic and cheap tacos and burritos we had at two different cantinas along our nights travels. My meal in our late night feast (at 2am) consisted of some of the tastiest chicken burritos i have ever had and were served to us by the cutest little waitress. We assumed it was holidays for kids south of the border too because this little waitress looked about 8years old at the most. Yep, it was 2am and we were served traditional Mexican foods by an 8yo girl.
Tuesday was a chill out day. We had a late brekkie (see above) and then lounged by the pool like fat lizards. It was great to get some sunshine and relaxing in after our busy adventure. The day was only broken up by a gym visit and a little siesta before getting together with Amber and Marcus again for pre-dinner pool cocktails followed by some dinner and a few quiet night caps. We ate at the Ocean Grill restaurant set alongside one of the pools...like the rest of the evening eateries so far the food was ok, drinks good and the ambience great. Next stop was the open bar near the foyer which sits up high and includes a large fire pit that overlooks the pool and the ocean. Alarmingly we decided on Gin Martini's...and surprisingly they were pretty darn good. Next stop...starting to get sleepy by the way after staring into the large fire pit...the hotel nightclub which is called Desires. With a name like that it had to be bad and we were spot on...it S.U.C.K.E.D...so we decided to make a direct u-turn straight out before ordering anything. The night ended after a lazy game of billiards and a plan to meet up again for brekkie before our friends flew off to Texas.
Today was kinda slow. After seeing Amber and Marcus off we plopped back into bed and slept the morning away until a quick gym session and a swim before our couples spa treatment at 3:30pm. My massage was good...and painful (deep tissue) and Gem's pre-natal massage was relaxing but not amazing. The steam room in this hotel rocks! Dinner was at yet another restaurant set next yet another pool and this time the food was healthy and really tasty. Early night now as tomorrow we plan to spend the day sitting by the pool(s) reading and frolicking with all of the loud and surgically enhanced Americans. I have to mention one guy i saw today. He is white but his tan is so dark i honestly thought he was a dark Indian...with brilliantly awful blode tipped hair and an 80's style earring...oh...and a seedy thin mustache. It was only at closer inspection that i realised he was a standard white American with the darkest and leatherest (word?) skin i have ever seen. I chuckled to myself in disbelief. We call him Chocco.
Time for sleep now guys.
There is a strong chance this will be our last blog until we do a final re-cap back in Perth. The internet is not always accessible at the airports and tomorrow is a computer free day.
Hope all is well back home and we wish our now good friends Amber and Marcus well on their journey across the U.S and A.
Adios Amigos, mucho love x
Ads and Gem and ? xx
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