PART 1
well i went to mexico. and this is what happened:
Okay. So my parents, my sister and I leave my house at 4:30.
This is what 4:30 looks like. for those of you who don't know.
Now we're on the plane. My sisters first time flying. awww....
Bienvenidos! yeah..welcome to mexico you fools.
This is the Acapulco Princess Hotel.
The lobby is all open for the first 5 floors. Beautifulllll.
And this is looking up.
This is our room. It connected to my parents by this small door looking thing.
Their room was bangin. So was ours.
Talk about a view....
Some pictures of the place. Did I say beautiful?
La playa (the beach):
Lots of surfers. They thought they were hot shit.
They weren't.
We went to dinner at this place called Kukaburras. Amaaaazing food. Even more amazing view. It was on the side of a mountain and it was an open air restaurant.
This shot is blurry.....but the lights that covered the mountains were incredible.
I never knew there were so many people in Acapulco.
They had about 5 restaurants on the resort. We ate at them quite a lot.
My sister is such a dork haha.
We went horseback riding on the beach.
I got the slow horse even though I was the only one who knew how to ride.
The whole reason we went to Mexico was for my dads business, Prudential.
They had 3 big parties. This was one.
Mexico has a maddd sugar ant problem.
They covered everyones chairs. We all had "ants in our pants". HA ha. ha...
It had a pirate theme!!!! I got a kick ass bandana too. Arrgg.
Holler at my Johnny Bravo tattoo!
Mmm then they had this indoor presentation thing where my dad got an award and we had to go on stage with him. That was not cool. But these dancers were. Kind of.
One of the pools had a swim up bar and they had the coolest drinks!
It was my moms of course...
We went out to eat at this other place in the city called Paradise. It was on this big deck on the beach. Next to us was bungee diving. There was a pool on the bottom that the people got dunked into. I wanted to do it super bad.
On the drive there we saw these girls advertising for a food market. Haha.
I thought she was a hooker at first. Oops.
Within 5 minutes the sky went from this...
to this....
ANOTHER dinner. This was some fiesta. My parents drank. A lot.
That got kind of boring for me and my sister so we checked out this circus that was happening in the lobby. It was wayy cooler than I expected. If there wasn't a crowd that I had to hold my camera over they would have came out clearer.
The next day was our snorkeling trip from hell.
But this picture was pretty.
So this boat. It was.. interesting. It even had a pull start engine!...that he was steering with his foot. It got rather choppy and the waves were about 3 feet higher than the boat. 30 people on a small ass boat with no radio and 5 life jackets. Yesss!
We got to the island alive and it started to rain. But we were going to be in the water anyway so I didn't mind. Until I found out we were supposed to come in our bathing suits. I was under the impression the island had a hotel that was doing the snorkeling. But no. I had to change into my bathing suit on a boat full of people, not to mention it was that time of the month. It couldn't get any better.
The snorkling itself was awesome. Then we got back on the boat and headed in. By this time, everyone just wanted to get back on solid ground. My dad decided to ask the guy to drop us off at this hotel that was only a 15 minute boat ride away, as opposed to the hour back to where we came from. So a couple other families decided that was a good idea and came with us. Getting off the boat however was a challenge. The waves were reallllly bad and it was starting to get couldy. We get to this tiny dock that the hotel had and we start drifting a little too fast into it and hit the dock head on. Everyone flies forward but the dock was fine. So we get this guy to help us off the boat as its rocking further and further away. There were also 4 huge rocks sticking up out of the water that we had to dodge. Overall it was a nightmare. I don't know how people had the guts to stay on the boat for the longer ride. This is the only picture I got of our escape.
That was insane. We talked to people that stayed on the boat and they said it got so bad that they started handing out these small reserve jackets because they thought they were going under. This company obviously had no idea that they were dealing with 30 insurance agents who asses safety conditions and shit like that all the time. Needless to say about half the families got their money back, including ours. Whatever.
So now we're at this hotel on the side of this mountain all wet and miserable. We walk out to the street and have NO idea where we are. It turns out we were in some town called Caletta and it looked like a fucking dump. The sewage overflowed into the streets and the whole place just stunk. Kids were running around everywhere without clothes on and people were lying in the streets. It was quite the culture shock. We stumbled in on this market place:
And this public beach: (looks like a postcard doesn't it?)
In our wanderings we also found this guy making homemade tortillas. It was pretty cool.
We grabbed this tiny stick volkswagon beetle cab all the way back to Acapulco.
We got back and went to our beach at the hotel. It's Mexican law that all beaches are public. That means that they can't stop beggars and sellers from hounding you. I can't even describe it. As soon as an american family stepped foot onto a beach at LEAST 5 people would be in your face speaking spanish and trying to get you to buy food/jewelery/cigarettes/weed/anything you could think of. Everyday was the same and you could be sitting there on your towel and have 10 guys around you trying to get money off you. It was horrible but after a couple days we learned just to say "no gracias" and walk away. If you were nice about it they were all over you.
This little boy was about 5 and selling chicklets to everyone. He would walk up to you and tell you he loved you so you would give him money. It was really sad. He liked my camera so I took a picture of him. He was amazed.
This lady sold the best bread!!1
Hmm.. we went back to the hotel and sat around being dorks for a while before dinner.
My sister is soo retarted.
We went to this place for dinner. Best food everrrrrr.
Ugh they had head of lamb.
We got to know our waiters and they told us about how they wanted to visit america and about their families and such. They were both really nice guys.
I have to leave...
There will be more to come later.