It's a good sign about Cozumel that our first day arriving there we met one guy who grew up in Mexico city and one guy who grew up in southern California who both described how they used to be wrapped up in the daily grind, working all the time and kind of missing their kids growing up. Then they moved here and while they make less the lifestyle is a lot better.
I'm feeling it too. You don't feel that resentment by locals of tourists, everyone is really nice. Our hotel looks better than the internet. The restaurants we've tried have been very tasty. Prices and styles are western more than Mexican but it's a tourist island and the quality of everything has been good.
We have taken an impromptu rest day today. We slept in for the 12 hour neighborhood and were then indifferent about making things happen. We did book our chichen itza and snorkeling adventures for the next two days and wash our clothes. We have officially escaped winter. Every day is lovely now.
I've been really enjoying inhabiting the world. We've done some lounging and internet but also a lot of wandering around checking things out.
Kids playing in the fountains, stores out of garages, pet dogs, people coming home with their groceries, all nice to watch and see.
My Saturday included a nap and finishing a book in bed. I valiantly skipped 100 tedious pages about people I didn't care about in the middle to track the progress of a dog. The people made so little progress in their angry, silly socialite lives that I caught up on them with zero effort.
ReplyDeleteOn valentines we had facon and omelette breakfast in the parlor and identified 3 slacks - curve-beaked woodpeckers with red collar and black mustache - and a pair of bluebirds on the pines out front. We bundled up almost enough and trekked down to the mailbox to snag an amazon box before trekking back and exchanging valentine's. He made a sweet poster collage of the "tales" characters with a photo of us tucked in the middle. When the world warmed up at 2 we bundled up again and tromped around the woods, grilled up a black bean burger feast and picnic ed by the pond. After hot showers and fitness we had a circus in the evening (dancing, fans, and glow hoop in the colored lights) before settling in for video game time.
This morning is snow again. Another honest-to-goodness heap of white billowing to the ground. It's already been hours and you can just make out the tips of the grass while the flakes go from snow in a hurry to drifting fat flakes. I made an ambitious "to do" list. We'll see how far I get.
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