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Posted by Justine on 06/22/02

Trip Report, part 1

This trip was a HS graduation present to my daughter, Hope. Of course it had a few benefits for me as well! So it was just us girls.

We drove to Denver the afternoon before our flight, since we live in Nebraska about 3-1/2 hours from DIA.

Took the shuttle from our motel near the airport and arrive at 6 a.m., find Ryan International airlines, the line is long but we were on our way to the concourse in about 20 minutes thanks to the Apple Representatives making everything go smoothly. Security: Of course Hope walks right thru but it beeps on me. They wave the wand around and it beeps at my sandals (that’s where I keep my eyelash curler! ha) off my sandals go into a plastic bag to be x-rayed and the wand also beeps at my waist area, geez, I’m not even wearing a belt! After my sandals are okayed, we were off. Plane leaves on time and we arrive in Coz. Apple rep gets us in a crowded suburban and we head to Park Royal. My first impression is WOW, this is nice. The entry is grand, the grounds lush with plant, trees, flowering shrubs, the pool winds around the bar-snack area. We are on the 3rd floor of the tower, our balcony overlooks the sea and usually 1 or 2 huge cruise ships, they are so huge!

My daughter decides to lounge by the pool while I get our car I had arranged on the internet from Smart car rental. A guy picks me up at the resort and takes me downtown for the paper work and I’m off in our little topless VW bug. Later we decide that for the 1/2 price deal on the internet they gave us the junkiest car they had, but we had fun with it. By the time we leave I had the nasty clutch down a little better, never did find first gear and we did entertain the guy at the entrance of Park Royal more than once by killing it at the gate, he was always  smiling when we drove up and saying something in Spanish that we couldn’t understand. Probably something derogatory about my driving skills!

Once back at Park Royal with the “Wonder Bug” I find my daughter at the swim up bar. Later we try out the car, heading towards town, trying to find 2nd, maybe it’s 3rd! Anyway, were cruising along towards town, down shift for the topes and the shifter comes out of the floor! “Oh sh*t, we’re laughing and I’m checking the rearview mirror hoping a taxi isn’t about to run us down from the rear, we manage to get the stick back into the floor and off we go! Whew!  

Checked out some shops, stopped at Carlos & Charlies for a drink and decided to call it a night.  Tomorrow: resort course with Papa Hogs

Trip report, day 2, sorry, long time since day 1

Today is our resort scuba course with Papa Hogs dive shop. I had arranged this on the internet and paid the deposit. We arrive and meet the owners Mike and Margaret. We filled out all the forms and read out of the PADI book. The weather today doesn’t look very good, a storm is brewing with dark clouds to the east, and it is sprinkling. Julie came over and introduced herself as our dive master. We enjoyed her a lot, she moved to Cozumel a year and a half ago from Denver, Colorado. After were finished reading we head over to the waters edge and go over equipment and the basics. Then we get to put all our gear on, starting with a weight belt, yippee more weight around the hip area! Then the BC with the tank attached, put the mask on our heads, hang on to the fins and then walk into the water trying to avoid the little rocks which wasn’t easy with all that equipment on to an area deep enough that the gear wasn’t as heavy. Checked our buoyancy, Hope sank to the bottom, but I didn’t, so I got to add a little more weight to my BC! Then we practice taking the regulator in and out, mask clearing and just getting comfortable with the whole idea.

Then it’s time to head out deeper to the shallow reef off the shore of Papa Hogs, as we get out there Julie motions us to ascend. The current is the wrong direction for a safe dive and we head back in. It is already a long swim because the current took us so far.  We decide to check back with Julie in a couple of hours, but when we did it was thundering and lightning and Hope wanted to wait until tomorrow.

It was lunch time by now, so we try La Mission in town. We both had the fajitas, but that was certainly not all that we were served. First was the bread , chips w/guacamole, then a chicken soup and finally the fajitas which were very good. We were stuffed and then they wanted to know if we wanted dessert!

Hope and I decide it is time for a trip to the other side of the island.  This is Hope’s first look as we pull up to the Paradise Cafe. She wants to get in!  We head on up the coast and find a good spot. We wore ourselves out in the waves, jumped in the “Wonder Bug” all wet  and headed towards Coconuts. I had one of their delicious Pina Coladas and Hope has Sex on the Beach (no! the drink). After Coconuts, the constant drizzle had quit, so we put the top down on the Wonder Bug and decided to head back the same way we came and stopped at another beach to play in the waves again. Must have really wore Hope out, after a dinner of tostadas, cheese quesadillas, chips and gaucamole, Hope went to bed at 7:00 and I wasn’t far behind her.

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