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Cozumel:
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20 September 2004 - Today we were docked at Cozumel. My goal was a bottle of vanilla and a family sized hammock. I had already done my research on the hammock - knew I wanted nylon and one with a higher string count. Chris and I left the kids at the playroom and walked around right at the pier for a while and then took a cab to downtown for $6. The farther away from downtown you walk, the cheaper the prices get. I found a hammock I wanted and paid $80 for it (after negotiating from $100), which I'm happy with. It's huge and very heavy (I know, I had to carry it,
LOL!). Went to another store for vanilla and they had 3 or 4 different types. I asked her what type she uses and bought that one. Got caught in the rain, took a cab back to the ship, and had lunch. Today was Japanese, so Chris got his sushi. :^)
We were originally going to go to Paradise Beach, but it was very
overcast all day and I wasn't going to go to the beach in the
rain. So we took the kids down to the dock so they could get a
better idea of how big the ship was. |
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| The one on the right is the HAL Zuiderdam. They
followed us to Costa Maya as well. |
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Came back to the room, and got into our suits to go swimming. Eww. Salt water pools. The main pools were too deep for the kids, so we went up to deck 12 and stayed in the kiddie pool for a while. Sure, it's only a foot deep, but it was deserted and it had a shower that sprayed right into the pool, which the kids had fun with. The ship was deserted and we had that entire deck to ourselves. |
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Rest of the evening was uneventful. Came back to the room, got dressed, tried to take a nap, went to dinner. Stephen was bored with dinner so I gave him my room key and he came up to the room to play his
Game Boy. After dinner Talia made a beeline for the playroom, so at about quarter to 8 the rest of us went down into the port area so Stephen could look around.
8 pm and we're haggling the price of a wooden snake Stephen wants, when I realize I'm being bitten on the legs by about ten million
mosquitoes. Quick, settle on a price for that thing so we can get out of here.
So, now it's 10 pm and we're just being pushed away from the port. Talia is already conked out - she fell asleep in the playroom, and once again I was grateful to the Upgrade Fairy who assigned us a room literally 8 feet away from Camp Carnival. Tonight's the Mexican Buffet at 11:30 and I don't know if I'm going to be awake that long. This vacationing thing is tiring. :^0 |
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