During the course of our eight day adventure, between Nathan and I, we took close to 1050 pictures. There are several reasons why I took so many. 1. It was my first time outside of the United States. 2. It was my first time going somewhere tropical. 3. I wanted to document every minute of my amazing experience. 4. I'm camera happy. 5. Sometimes my hand would shake so I would snap several pictures in a row to make sure I at least got one good one, and figured I would go through and delete the bad ones later. 6. Nathan had his camera and I had mine, we each took pictures of what sparked our interest. And 7. I wanted to take pictures for our kids back home. I took pictures according to things I thought they might find interesting. I found myself thinking, "oh Live Wire would love to see a picture of that." Or, "Space Man Spiff would think that is really cool." Or "Lion Heart would think that is neat.", etc.... So, I found myself taking pictures of every inch of our hotel and its courtyard.
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| Front of our hotel from the street. We stayed in Casa Eijdo |
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| That's part of the building that our room was in. |
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| Looking up the street. We would walk that way every morning to the McDonald's to then catch a taxi to our destination. |
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| This is the way we went the first night that lead us to the fabulous taqueria. |
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| View from the our hotel room. |
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| Another view from our hotel room |
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| The door to our hotel room. |
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| View of our hotel room from the middle of the courtyard. |
They had these awesome hammocks over by the covered patio.
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| I don't take many selfies because I don't really see the point. But I had to take one of me chilling in the hammock and loving the heat. |
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| View of the trees from the hammock |
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| Another view of the trees and sky from the hammock |
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| It was so peaceful to listen to the birds sing. |
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| View of the courtyard from the hammock |
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| The covered patio. |
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| Office and exit to the hotel. |
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| Public bathroom. |
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| Isn't that just beautiful? |
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| Sea shells on the ground. |
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| Pathway leading to our room. |
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| View of the courtyard from the entrance. |
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| Awesome tree. |
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| More courtyard. |
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| More courtyard. |
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| Nathan chillin on a beach chair. |
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| I don't know what these were but I found them fascinating. |
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| Tree with the weird looking fruit. |
Okay, so those were JUST the pictures of the courtyard. I took pictures of our hotel room as well.
Ahhh bathrooms!! The bathrooms in Mexico were interesting to say the least. You can't flush toilet paper in the toilets because the plumbing can't handle it. All bathrooms have a trash can for you to put your used toilet paper into. Problem is that it leaves the bathroom smelling......interesting. Also you had to pay five peso's to use public restrooms. The bathrooms at the bus station had a gate and money machine. You couldn't use the bathroom if you didn't have money. And they don't believe in keeping toilet paper in the bathroom, you have to bring your own with you. Which I found a bit frustrating....if I'm going to pay you five peso's, I expect to have toilet paper. They also don't believe that women need toilet seats. Some places had seats....and some did not. It was a new and interesting experience.
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| Luckily the toilet in our hotel room had a seat and toilet paper. There were a few times I forgot to throw the toilet paper in the trash can.....ooops! |
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| The sink in the bathroom. You had to push down on the handle to get the water on. That took some getting used to. |
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| That glass door was locked. My curiosity was killing me to know where it went to. I ended up moving a lamp table into the shower to look through the window. (Basically the entire bathroom was the shower. There was a shower curtain that separated things.) I peeked through the window and saw just a small enclosed drain. But my curiosity was satisfied. |
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| The bed. The most uncomfortable thing I've ever met. They had a small foam mattress underneath the sheets. Nathan folded it over and slept on it. |
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| The kitchen. |
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| Luckily they had a futon that I slept on. I took all the pillows I could find and laid them down to lay on. It was the only way I was comfortable enough to sleep. Our first night was miserable, until we figured out how to make ourselves comfortable. |
