A Room with a View

Last February I was making plans for our 20th anniversary trip. Big plans. Sweden was on the radar for May 2010. But plans change, so we had to make plans for late 2009.

Luckily, Erik got assigned a business trip to Holland, near the Belgian border, so I planned a trip for me to accompany him, incorporating a weekend in Paris, stops in Brussels and Bruges, and seeing all the Christmas markets. I even had a new book outlined to incorporate Flander's Fields. But, as usual, plans change, and Erik's trip was cancelled. And that left us in a tight spot, having no trip scheduled and needing to use up vacation days.

So what else could we do? We took Erik's accumulated flight miles and went as far as we could--Cancun. (He doesn't get to keep most of his miles)

I wasn't that excited after thinking of the other exotic places we could have gone, but it turns out Cancun is a good choice for January, and for anniversaries. I'll cover our activities later, but really, we could have been content forever in our room with a view.

Caribbean sunrise

Our Hacienda Hotel

Daily morning drama

The fishermen are out early

Sunrise over the ocean from the back balcony, Sunset over the city and lagoon from the front patio. Not bad.

Hotel Lobby, 48 steps below our ecclectic penthouse. No elevator.

Our stucco suite, complete with window walls on both sides, each leading to a private patio. The floor artistically rises two steps all the way around the bed, which is nice, but easy to forget, until you find yourself falling head-first toward a window.

Relaxing after church, which was interesting. No habla Espanol.

Back of hotel

So blue, so warm, so missed . . .

Until the next time.

We definitely need a third honeymoon.