Mexico 2

Wednesday we booked a bus to take us into Playa Del Carmen in the afternoon.  In order to get the bus for free we first had to stop at a silver factory.  I was ok with that.  For free it would be cool to watch them make some jewelry.  Yeap, wrong!  We were to be picked up at 1 and back by 4.  We had had a late breakfast and decided we would be okay not eating lunch and just have an early dinner when we got back.  Again wrong.  We started the morning with a bike ride around the resort and looking at some ruins.

We then ended up getting picked up at 1:30.  They took us to the silver 'factory' which ended up being a big fancy store, as they pressured us to buy things for the required hour we stayed there.  Once they realized we were not buying, we sat out front waiting for the next bus to come pick us up. Luckily we had a few chips and buns with us.

We finally made it into Playa Del Carmen around 4 and were told we got a free lunch and then time to look around for a few hours.  The lunch was really good.  We decided it was worth sitting through the silver factory to get free ride and lunch.  They dropped us off at a tequila factory and had a booth set up for lots of free samples.  Our bus mates enjoyed that.  :) We then ate and walked up and down 5th Ave.  It is 30 blocks long, filled with stores and vendors.  We got all our souvenirs here.  It was sorta fun to barter for our goods.  Every store offered us tequila.

Even though the tour was not quite as advertised, it ended up being a really fun day.  Thursday was another perfectly lazy day.  We spent it at the beach.

Around lunch time the boys went swimming and snorkeling in the Cenote.  They saw a lot of neat fish.

Then dinner at a different restaurant again, walking along the beach in the dark and to sleep.  We checked in with Cora as often as we could.  It would cut out bad to FaceTime and I didn't have a plan to call.  But we tried FaceTime as much as we could and texted lots back and forth.