February 7, 2007 - Wednesday - Denver, CO to Mayan Riviera Near Cancun

Up at 3 AM.
Out by 3:50 AM.

Arrived at Denver International Airport at 4:45 for our 7:00 flight
Dropped off Poulsens and Gennie
Checked in at Frontier for Champion Air flight
Went through extended TSA screening
Vic caught again in the red tape trap!
Concourse A-52 for ...
Read Day 1!
February 8, 2007 - Thursday - Iberostar Paraiso del Mar

Woke-up at 8:30 - AH Paradise!
The sun is out, the sky is blue, and all is well with the world!

Breakfast buffet at main restaurant at 9:40.

Room to organize and send a few of our wet and soiled clothes to the laundry.

Walked to hotel main entrance to photograph
Returned to ...
Read Day 2!
February 9, 2007 - Friday - Iberostar Paraiso del Mar
There was another hard rain in the early morning hours, the sidewalks were flooded when we went to breakfast at 8:30. We met Ulla and Jesper and the girls in the main dining room and enjoyed the fresh fruit and all of the different varieties of breakfast fare. We had brought the laptop so when we were finished with ...
Read Day 3!
February 10, 2007 - Saturday - Iberostar Paraiso del Mar-Chichen Itza
As we were to go on a tour this morning, we had an early alarm for 6:30. We woke up to cloudy skies, with temperatures in the 70s. We showered and had our buffet breakfast with the Poulsens and were in the lobby by 8:15. The tour bus came for us at 8:35 and we were the last pickup. We went northeast toward ...
Read Day 4!
February 11, 2007 - Sunday - Iberostar Paraiso del Mar
We woke up to another sunny day in Paradise but found we had no water this morning! We took advantage of the small stream from the tap - enough to freshen up and shave! Back to the days of 1976 when we were here in Cancun - it was a brand new small resort town with intermittent water and frequent power outages! Our walk ...
Read Day 5!
February 12, 2007 - Monday - Iberostar Paraiso del Mar
A horrendous thunderstorm came in at 6:00 this morning, with huge bolts of lightning and loud thunder! We were in for another tremendous rainstorm with the high wind gusts to go with it. We were amazed at the resilience of the jungle foliage as it sheds the heavy rain. By the time we were out of the shower and on our ...
Read Day 6!
February 13, 2007 - Tuesday - Iberostar Paraiso del Mar
We woke to a beautiful day, but Gennie had a killer headache and we were not able to go to Xcaret, the water park with the Poulsens as we had planned. She wanted me to go, but as we are in this as a team, I stayed behind also. I had breakfast with the Poulsens and then came back to our room. There was a very cool fresh ...
Read Day 7!
February 14, 2007 - Wednesday - Flight Home to Denver
We had an easy morning with a wake-up at 7:30, showered, finished packing and then went to breakfast. As usual, the buffet was good and plentiful and we returned to our room by 9:30 to pick up our bags. We did the formal checkout at the front desk and waited for the Apple Vacations bus to pick us up. At 10 AM we were on a ...
Read Day 8!