Dr. Alison Marr» Mexico

Last day

alison — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:38:00 +0000

Hola!

Yesterday was our last full day here in Mexico. We woke up early and headed to the breakfast buffet. Made to order frech toast=yummy! Then, we met up w/ Traci and Jodi to take a taxi to Playacar Palace resort on the beach in Playa del Carmen. Their resort is no where near as cool as ours, but it is on the sandy beach and we spent the morning making sand castles, swimming in the ocean and soaking up the rays. The beach was absolutely empty…so it was like having our own private beach!!

Then, we had some fajitas for lunch, follwed by a few more hours laying by the pool overlooking the water. After we were nice and burnt (I hurt soo bad) we headed over to the Playa market to do a little shopping. By 4:00 we were ready to head back to our resort. We took the shuttle back and got ready for our dinner adventure.

Jeff would probably like to talk about our dinner…but let me just preview by saying we had 3 dinners last night!! I’m stuffed, but am off to breakfast one more time before we head to the airport at 8:20. More later.

P.S….best part of day=Jeff actually danced with me while we were hanging out in the lobby between dinners. It was exciting!!!!

Hola! Yesterday was our last full day here in Mexico. We woke up early and headed to the breakfast buffet. Made to order frech toast=yummy! Then, we met up w/ Traci and Jodi to take a taxi to Playacar Palace resort on the beach in Playa del Carmen. Their resort is no where near as cool as ours, but it is on the sandy beach and we spent the morning making sand castles, swimming in the ocean and soaking up the rays. The beach was absolutely empty…so it was like having our own private beach!! Then, we had some fajitas for lunch, follwed by a few more hours laying by the pool overlooking the water. After we were nice and burnt (I hurt soo bad) we headed over to the Playa market to do a little shopping. By 4:00 we were ready to head back to our resort. We took the shuttle back and got ready for our dinner adventure. Jeff would probably like to talk about our dinner…but let me just preview by saying we had 3 dinners last night!! I’m stuffed, but am off to breakfast one more time before we head to the airport at 8:20. More later.

Wedding Day!!

alison — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:09:00 +0000

Yesterday was wedding day and it was a great day and a beautiful wedding. The only sad part of yesterday is that we found out all the excursions were booked for today, so no dolphin swim or Mayan ruins. Instead, we plan on heading to a different Palace resort and spending time on a sandy beach instead of our rocky beach.

I’ve posted some photos of Jeff in the lagoon and of the wedding.

Day Two

jeffnoble — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:29:00 +0000

So last night I found out something new about Alison, she talks in her sleep. I thought that was pretty funny and couldn’t wait to tell her this morning, but she beat me to the punch with something much much worse. Evidently I was making some kind of wailing cat sound meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooww mewwwwwwwwooowww. On our trip to Alaska, I was making a slumbering bear sound… so stay tuned for next trip for whatever other animal I can imitate. I’m hoping to add a mouse sound to my repertoire.
Today we spent most of the day chilling by the ocean or the pool in lounge chairs, it got kind of cloudy but we made the best of it. Later in the afternoon, Janie and Jason got married and the whole thing took possibly 15 minutes. They got some great pictures – a rainbow even came out, someone mentioned Janie and Jason’s kids were going to be leprechauns because of this, but I wanted to say it definitely wasn’t me.

Day 1-Pics

alison — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Hi everyone! I’m finally taking some time to post on here. This keyboard is tiny and I’m ready for breakfast (even though I;m still stuffed from dinner). so I’m gonna keep this short. Here are some pics of our first day. The one of the maze is a view from our balcony…then Jeff and I by the beach next to our resort…and then Jodi, Traci and I.
Been having fun so far. Food is good, it’s great to see e veryone again, and this place is beautiful!!!

Day One – Annoying Traveler Sandwich

jeffnoble — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:11:00 +0000

OK folks, it’s been a long day but we made it to the Mayan Riviera so here is a quick run down. First of all, I’d like to point out that I’m typing this message on my new 9 inch Linux laptop and my giant fat bigfoot American hands keep pressing all the wrong keys. ahdfkasjhfiawhfiguvavkawe. I guess smaller isn’t always better. That sounds like something my Mom taught me that I have kept near and dear to my heart, “if it has moving parts, it will break!”
Anyway, the plane ride over got off with an impressive start, you see AeroMexico loads the plane from the front and the back, a revolutionary idea but it was all down hill from there. The people in front of us had a screaming kid, I refered to all 3 by one collective name, Asian Poopie Diaper. The lady diagonal from us, I swear I told Alison we needed to make sure and not sit by here and her 4 kids… totalled failed at that. Across from us was some totally Xtreme! teens with sideways hats and plenty of Mountain Dew and Red Bull. And if that wasn’t enough right behind us we had Team Twenty Something Gold Diggers (again my name for them), I contemplated smashing my head through the window as they discussed in infinite detail their perfect weddings, what rings they will pick out for themselves, and how an old Mexican church would be just so adorable to get married in. To my knowledge, none of them had a gentleman caller… you know, just in case you were wondering.

Once we landed we jumped into our crazy Mexican driver’s van and spend off down the road breaking pretty much any traffic rule I could think of or even existed, except we didn’t ever have anyone surfing ontop of the car like that guy in the movie Teenwolf. Not Michael J Fox, the other guy. Don’t pretend you never saw that movie. You know it was good.

Enough about that, the resort is pretty sweet. We were greeted with Champagne or some kind of fizzy Kool-Aid beverage that reminded me of a line I learned at Christmas from Alison’s nephew Adam, who said it best with the following “WE DON’T EVEN DRINK KOOL-AID!” So we were able to survive the onslaught of tequila, beer, and crazy fu fu mixed drinks.

That’s it for now, hopefully post some pictures tomorrow.

The night before…

jeffnoble — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:25:00 +0000

Hey everyone, it’s the night before we leave to Cancun and I have my mariachi outfit on just to make sure it still fits and that I can still effectively moonwalk while playing Axel F on an acoustic guitar. Done and done. Wait I mean. Terminado y terminando.

Interesting development, not related to Cancun but equally awesome, I installed a surround sound system in my living room all day today – instead of going to work, that’s pretty much in everyone’s face in the product design department. Anyway that’s not the story. With the volume not even half way up you can hear it clearly from the street, yet Alison just asked me “if my TV has closed captioning” because she can’t hear!!!!! Yikes, I think the sound system has possibly claimed it’s first victim. Is Mexican sign language any different than regular sign language? More on that tomorrow.

Pics from waterproof camera

alison — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:54:00 +0000

We’ve been back a while now, and I’m back from my trip to Florida, so I wanted to post a few more pics if anyone is still checking the blog. We got these pics from the rafting trip, so I wanted to show you some of the fun we were having.