Cancun anniversary trip 2011

For our trip we decided to try an all-inclusive resort instead of a cruise just to see the difference. It was kinda a last minute trip since I could tell that John was getting burned out from work and I knew he wanted to get away. Since it was only a couple months of planning we wanted to go somewhere cheap, but warm.
I did so so SO SO much research for resorts, so much that I thought my eyeballs would melt out of my head. We used bookit.com and I highly recommend it, it was our first trip where something didn't go wrong and ran so smoothly.

We stayed at the Fiesta Americana Condesa Cancun and it was wonderful. We were upgraded from a lagoon view to an ocean view room for no extra price and the room was very clean and updated.

The view of our resort from the beach.

This is the view lagoon side of the lobby of the resort, it's all open and beautiful!  You can have that kind of stuff when it's never below 80 degrees year round. 

The whole resort is open, so you're inside and outside at the same time...make sense? This is what we saw when we opened our door to our room. The gardens were beautiful.

This is the ocean view from our patio.

This trip was planned for more of a relaxing getaway, so we didn't want to spend much time away from the resort. 

Monday the 12th we arrived and were done with check-in around 5 PM. We ate some dinner and waited for the evening show to start, a recreation of Micheal Jackson. 

Tuesday we spent the whole day on the beach. My idea of a perfect vacation.

 John's the one in the middle fighting the waves. 

Wednesday we went para-sailing, something neither of us had done before. It was very fun, but really windy.

Like I said, it was WAY windy!

Looking down at the boat!

Then it was back to the beach to soak up more sun!

Thursday, our anniversary, was our busiest day. We took a submarine ride to see the fish in the morning, it was very nice even though half the boat got sick. We got a lot of pictures, but the fish are hard to see so I won't post any.
After the sub ride, we walked down to some ruins on the hotel zone strip. It was a 45 minute walk, so we took the bus back to the resort.
The ruins were really cool, but my favorite part was all the iguanas roaming the grounds. John is scared of them and I wanted to take one home!

When we got back from the ruins, we got ready for our splurge of the trip. We set up a couple's massage and dinner on the beach. This was my favorite part of the trip and oh, so relaxing!

This is where we had our massages, but it was in the evening.

After the massage, we had our dinner. It was magical! This isn't us eating since I forgot my camera, but this is exactly what it looked like. We watched cruise ships sail by and enjoyed the sea breeze.

Coming back to our room greeted us with a nice surprise. Happy anniversary to us!

Friday was our shopping day. Just a little note, stay away from Lapis Jewelry if you don't want to be suffocated. We got complimentary shuttle into the shopping district from them so it's not like we could just leave and we did spend some money there.

Saturday we got up early to get to the airport and traveled home. Our house sitters and good friends, Jonessa and Derek, picked us up from the airport and took us home.
When Jonessa let the dogs out to see us they were more happy to see Derek and her. :) looks like Makoa added two more people to his little circle.
Winston was picked up from the boarding kennel later that evening.

It was such a nice, relaxing trip and John and I want to go back so badly!