It was hard to leave beautiful Isla Mujeres especially with the taxi, ferry, taxi, bus, car travel we had to do. Well, the last trip would have been a taxi but Brenda, the Air BnB contact and her boyfriend Allen picked us up. They showed us the 4th floor condo which is HUGE; two bedrooms 2.5 baths, a full kitchen and dining room and a deck and roof top garden. The dining/living room is so big and sparsely furnished that our every sound echoes.
Then they drove around the neighborhood a little to give us a little introduction. They took us on a much needed stop to the Lavendaria and then dropped us off at Maya Centro, a big grocery store where we could stock up for the week. All went well until we got back to condo 43 and lo and behold, the electricity was out and there we stood with groceries, a rapidly warming fridge, and no air conditioning. We made a quick call to Brenda and she and Allen turned around, came back and dealt with the condo administrator, the electricity company, much confusion, and after a LONG wait, an electrician. Finally, four hours later, much to our happiness and relief the refrigerator hummed, lights snapped on and the internet was alive.
Today we slept soundly till after seven! It was a lazy day that started with a breakfast of fruit, yogurt, and hard boiled eggs, made by me in the condo kitchen. Then off to the beach to rent lounge chairs, look at the waves and passing bellies and bikinis. Followed that with lunch at Casa Toucan, then a walk to Wal-Mart and a taxi home. It is either a 70 peso taxi ride or a twenty five minute walk between our condo and Mamitas beach which is wider since our earlier stay due to winds from the west depositing a healthy strip of sand. Life is still sunny and slow paced but the end of the vacation is beginning to seek into more of my thoughts.
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