Sharing Time
We woke up to the sound of friendly Mexican music blaring on the mono alarm clock this morning. I cranked the volume before I went to bed and thought it would be fun to wake up to southern Mexican music. Luckily my illness had subsided but Mexican music still pissed me off in the morning (on that note, any music that wakes me up usually pisses me off). I habitually got up and went through my morning ritual.
I woke Elise up after showering and shaving. We walked downstairs to Cilantros and met with Carrie. On our freebie bill: discounted deep-sea fishing, two passes for a sunset cruise with dinner and open bar, free parasailing and $30 USD for two Baja ATV tours.
We were taxied to the Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach resort on the Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas. To spare you the details, we had a great breakfast (I wish I could remember everything that we ate – refried beans, fried eggs with a tomato-based sauce, Mexican-style hash browns and a tortilla chip mixed with sauce concoction that was to die for along with various local salsas [spicy as hell] and fresh squeezed cantaloupe juice).
We then went through the whole sales process. It was a long ordeal – longer that we had anticipated. Again, to spare you the details, we endured the sales pitch, got free breakfast and lunch. Yeah, it took that long. I also milked the sales lady for three Coronas. Hell, I figured if we have to go through this, might as well get cervezas out of the deal. Salud.
Elise’s objective for the day was to utilize the swim-up bar. There are three Pueblo Bonito resorts in Cabo to date. We are able to take advantage of the amenities of all of them. Sunset Beach has six pools, all of which have swim-up bars. So we changed and swam up to the bar and had more Coronas and some fruity drinks for Elise.
We walked to the Pacific-side beach and dried off. A towel boy by the name of Aloys (pronounced similarly to Elise) came out and started talking to us. That was so much fun. A conversation that would have taken same-language-speaking people 30 seconds took almost an hour. But we laughed and had a great time. I was actually able to talk to Aloys about Tae Kwon Do and found that he is an 8-month, self-taught student of Tae Kwon Do. I showed him three or four pressure points and he quickly realized that I was a lot more versed than he.
The sun set and we headed back to the lobby to catch the shuttle back to the Blanco.
Tomorrow is parasailing and the sunset cruise.