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Hey Guys – We are just sending a quick e-mail as it has been a long day and we are looking at a longer day tomorrow. This morning we were up and on the ferry for 7:30am. It was cloudy and windy with sun peaking through. Got to the Cancun side and met our ‘represenative’ for the vacation club (not a time share) t was a bit of a zoo as they all want to take you places and sell you things. He wisked us away to his ‘van’ which was a hailed taxi around the corner. So much for his ’2010 Mercardes air conditioned van’ hahaha Oh Mexico! How we love it! We are catching on to their tricks and the language! So he took us to this BEAUTIFUL place – oh my god it was amazing! Obviously we can’t afford it and we knew that going in – we just wanted our free stuff. The guy promised us stuff but once we got to the presentation we didn’t qualify because we spend too little on travel (we are budget travellers) we enjoyed a really nice breakfast with our sales lady Susy. She was very interested in weight watchers and David explained the program to her. She gave us her personal e-mail address for us to pass on more info to her. Her husband is a computer engineer and if he does what David needs – it would be a great connection. She secretly tried to sucker us in to paying for a hot breakfast – but Melissa stuck to the FREE aspect of this journy and we had yogurt with fixings, fruit and fruit juice. Susy enjoyed a hot breakfast while we chatted. She showed us around – got us to jump on the king size bed and took ‘honeymoon’ pictures – gotta love being a honeymooner here in Mexico. We finally told her we weren’t buying anything and we thanked her for her time. Some other dude tried to sell us again but we stuck to our guns. We waited about a half hour for our ‘free’ alcohol and appeared out of no where was a 1L bottle of tequilla and a 1L bottle of Kaluah. The rain started and it came down like never before. The van picked us up to take us back to the ferry. The streets were flooded – looking out the windows looked like we were in a boat. Taxi cars had water over the bottom of their doors. A mess. We got to the ferry dock just as the ferry was leaving. We didn’t want to wait in the rain so they stopped the ferry and we ran. (Ran like we’ve never run before) in the pouring rain – down slippery rock. Melissa is pretty sure it would have been the funniest thing to watch her – running similar to a penguin – legs locked to prevent slipping. What an adventure. We got on the ferry and were soaked from head to toe. Couldn’t even wipe our glasses off becuase everything was wet. Got to Isla and the sun was breaking through the clouds. Headed for lunch and enjoyed a torta loca. Mmm. David chocked on the bun as it decintigrated into powder dust in his mouth. Once we got past that it was tasty. Caught a cab back to the apartment to change into dry clothes. It continued to rain so David watched his (scary) shows on t.v and Melissa took another anti-histamine and slept. The bug bites have multiplied. Melissa’s legs look like something out of a jungle in africa with bites. We taxied back into town and went to North Beach to watch our first sun-set. Which was really nothing special as it was very cloudy. Walked along the beach from Avalon to in front of the Vistal Mar. Checked in with our ‘representative’ to get our other ‘free’ promised items. A problem – beause we didnt qualify for the free stuff today – he would still honour it – but we would have to wait until Friday as that is his pay day. And because he promised it to us – he has to give it to us – but he made no money on us going, as we didn’t qualify. Knowing David and I we felt bad – so here is the outcome. We are going to another ‘time share crap thing’ tomorrow morning. Today our 90 minutes turned into 3.5 hours. We met some people that said – they do this all the time and after 90 minutes they get up and leave. That is our plan for tomorrow. After 90 minutes we’re done. We get more free stuff for going to this one. We are to be on the 7am ferry, to Cancun at 7:30. At the resort by 8am and out of there by 9:30am. We get a ‘free’ rental car with gas for 24hours, we have 2 trips to Chichen Itza (our representative is off tomorrow) so he will come with us and drive. Show us around and guide where ever we want him to. We have a few places other than Chichen Itza we want to visit tomorrow. We also get free snorkling at 3 reefs with lunch included. We will do this on Sat morning. We will then catch the ferry to the hotel zone and then a bus to another place where David will drive a speed boat (with me as a passenger) through the lagoon and mangroves to do more snorkling. We then catch the bus again and head to the Captain Hook Dinner Cruise for dinner. David ordered surf and turf (lobster and steak) and Melissa ordered steak. This also comes with all you can drink and buffet. Should be a good day. We will hopefully take the golf cart on Monday to tour the island. We are having a blast! So much to share – and not enough time – It’s 10:00pm and if we need to be on the 7am ferry we need to be up at 6am at the latest. We will shower tonight. We ate at the French Bistro tonight. David ordered garlic shrimp that came with rice, veggies and baked potato. Melissa ordered 4 cheese ravioli. We shared a french onion soup, coca cola and water. The rain isn’t stopping so we must just keep going! This isn’t the Mexico honeymoon weather that we dreamed of but we are having a blast! Miss everyone! Hope everyone is doing great! Miss Dreya dog TONS! David and Melissa

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