Got here Thursday night, basically spent the whole day being angry and emo, mom got pissed eventually. When we were coming out of the airport, a woman at a desk near the exit introduced herself as a tourist assistant, and started telling us about stuff. And I thought my mom was being pretty rude about "We're sleepy...we're not interested" when the woman was just trying to help us. Later I realized she was a timeshare person....didn't realize what timeshares were until just recently hahaha. By night it was better after we checked into our oceanview suite xD. Basically its a 1-1/2 floor suite with a full glass wall on one side that views the beach, + balcony. Yeah, it was only for one night though, because we had to move into a normal room the next morning.
Woke up early the next morning, (1) to be emo, (2) to see the sunrise. Eventually my mom started talking to me again, so everything was good xD. Umm, didn't do anything really on Friday I think.
Oh yeah, everything's free. So like if you're at the pool, you call the waitress over and tell her to get you a strawberry daiquiri, sangrias, and [most] other drinks you could want xD. And there's always something on the menu with tequila in it. I had a coffee au tequila yesterday. First the waiter does shows off his fire pouring skills, pours the tequila into the cups, adds the coffee, adds the cream, and then drizzles flaming tequila along an orange peel spiral into onto the coffee.
So yeah, Friday morning woke up early, then breakfast, ummm then my parents went to go see a timeshare thing with their friends, so I had to watch over these 3 kids. Supposedly I could "go to the beach" and "check up on the kids every once in a while." Eventually it turned out I had to stay with the kids the whole time...
Friday afternoon I went with my mom to downtown Cancun, which is where the locals live. Yeah, it looked just like a random small city in China. Not really worth seeing I guess... The items they were trying to sell to tourists were also crazy expensive. We tried getting 2 sunglasses, that I insisted on 100 pesos for both [~$10], which were originally 480 pesos (yes...they tried selling me sunglasses for about $24 each....). My mom doesn't like bargaining, so she took the both of them for 200 pesos. They were not worth 200 pesos. We tried getting back and luckily I am an hispanohablante, because no one there on the streets spoke English. So yeah 6 years of Spanish culminates in me saying "hai" to a latino lady in the middle of asking for directions. And asking things like "el estacion de la autobus es aqui?" (1) I avoided saying "Is this?" because I wasn't too sure how to use "este/esto" anymore, (2) my words are all the wrong gender, (3) I'm pretty sure it should be parada instead of estacion. Haha my mom was not impressed. @___@. But yeah, we eventually found our way back. On a side note, it's pretty funny seeing Chinese people interacting with mexicanos when both of them speak with accents. Also sometimes embarassing.
On Saturday I didn't really wake up for breakfast, and so I woke up around ten to go bike around the island with my parents and their friends. I was pretty apprehensive at first: during the summer in China, I remember trying to ride the bike in my grandparents' yard while my grandfather sat on the steps watching me. Basically I couldn't ride it at all because I couldn't find my balance and so made myself look like a fool. It was especially bad, because seven years ago my grandfather was taking me to town, so he told me to get on the back of his bike, but I couldn't get on [sorry I didn't have any experience jumping onto the little rack on the back of the bike], and he was like "真叫笨" [So stupid]. Yeah, I could imagine him thinking "真叫笨" as I kept losing my balance on the bike. Anyways back to Saturday. My dad said it should be okay, people never forget how to ride a bike. But he forgot to consider that he had probably thirty years experience riding a bike. While I only rode a bike for three years or so back when I was in first or second grade. But yeah, the bike tour guide had to stop for me many times, eventually I got the hang of it again though. Hurray. It turns out I remember how to ride a bike. 真不叫笨啦~. But now my butt hurts so much. I'm sure I bruised it or something riding on the an-ergonomic seat.
After the bike ride we had lunch at this grill place. Was pretty good, I had grilled octopus! Takoyaki except not. After that we went on a jungle tour, except it was actually two people in a motorboat driving across the lagoon to the snorkeling area. Yes there were some mangroves, but that was it. No animals. No trees. And it was hot and the sun was blinding me. But yeah, snorkeling was fun, saw some fish...some coral...except they had lines preventing you from going too close to the coral. So most of the time was spent bonding with some fish. Haha I totally expected a shark to just appear from behind the coral or something.
Dinner was at this place called Maria's, the second time we went there. It's free (part of the hotel), but you need to make reservations because its one of those look-at-our-extremely-small-but-well-decorated-portions restaurants. But since it was free, we basically got all we wanted xD. Yeah, it was Saturday night when I got the flaming coffee.
Today, I had to wake up at 7 because I had to go to a timeshare thing with my parents to get discounted tickets for the places we wanted to go. It was supposed to be 90 minutes, but eventually took almost 3 hours. After that we went shopping in a flea market located on the actual Cancun strip, so it was much better than downtown's. For some reason my parents refused the free breakfast the timeshare offered, so my first meal was around 1 o'clock. Yep, then I tried sleeping, but my parents and their friends really wanted to go to this other beach, so they dragged me there (my mom got pissed at me again, because I was being "antisocial" when all I wanted to do was sleep D:). But yeah, that beach was pretty fun. Got back around 5, took a shower, and so here I am. Going to dinner (at Maria's for the third time) around 6:30.
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