Mexico 2015

Wow! Can't believe it has been a week since we got home from our glorious trip to Mexico. I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to sum it all up so I think I'll just post pictures and write captions with each one and hope that is enough! One thing to note...unfortunately all of these pictures are iphone pictures only. I brought my good camera and was hoping to really get some great shots of the kids on the beach and the crystal blue water, but when we brought it out, we quickly realized I forgot the SD card in my computer at home:( I was pretty sad and we looked a few places for one, but no luck! Lesson learned....

We flew out Saturday morning at 10:30 mountain time and arrived in Mexico at 5:45 eastern time. We took a shuttle van to our resort which was 1 1/2 hours from the Cancun airport. Max told our life story to fellow travelers in the van, but otherwise it was uneventful! We checked in, ate some dinner poolside and went to bed.

Woke up to see that our room (the cheapest option...we almost upgraded before seeing our room but wisely decided against it) had the most amazing view! We looked out at the dolphins in the lagoon and each day saw them swimming, jumping, playing with each other. I'm so so happy we went with this option! Our first day we spent figuring the place out, swimming, playing in the sand, letting the kids discover the ocean for the first time and eating as much guacamole as we possibly could!

The kids were in heaven at this resort. They quickly figured out that they could basically get whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted! It was so relaxing and nice for Chris and me to just be able to say "yes" to most everything. The resort (Dreams Puerto Aventuras) had so much to do for kids. I would recommend going with kids, but I would highly recommend not going to this resort if you do not have kids with you. Mya loved the kids club so much that we had to drag her away in order to spend time with her! They were so wonderful with kids and kept them busy with doing all sorts of things from hair/nails/face painting/crafts to movies on the beach to fancy kid dinners. Max wasn't as thrilled about the kids club as Mya and Ivy, but he did go a couple of times.


watching Rio 2 on the beach!



We bought Max some snorkle gear for his birthday and he loved it! It took him a couple of days to get used to it, but he figured it out and even did some snorkeling in the ocean a couple of times.


All three kids did this crazy bungee jump thing on the trampoline. Max and Mya did it multiple times. They were doing flips and all sorts of crazy things on there!





Lots of ping pong was played while we waited for our nachos from that restaurant you see in the background. Tough life we had:)


Max had fun looking for little creatures in the ocean and he got a little hermit crab one day!


Every afternoon, the entertainment staff would put on some sort of activity around the pool. Max LOVED participating in these. One of these was a pool noodle fight on a surf board. He won his first 3 rounds and eventually lost to this girl in the final. He won Bingo and got 2nd in giant darts. Some other games were water soccer (shown below...they were spraying the kids with the hose as they ran around in this giant inflatable soccer field) and Angry Birds which was super fun for the kids and their parents:)






If there were such a thing as a "most popular contest" at the resort, this little girl below would have won for sure. Everyone knew who she was...she would just go up to random people and ask if they would play with her. I think there were no less than 3 people (grandparent age) who asked if they could take her home with them!


At least one of my kids (and usually more than one) had a drink like this in their hands at all times. The only downside of that was having to take Ivy to the bathroom every 2.5 seconds it seemed. Their favorites were strawberry mangos and chocolate shakes. The waiters/waitresses were so good with kids.



This trampoline had lots of bird poop on it or else I think the kids would have enjoyed it more! I broke the rules and got up on there one afternoon, but quickly got whistled down by the lifeguard. I didn't see what the big deal was!!


We met a really nice family from Toronto that had two boys (10 and 7) so Max was in heaven and we really enjoyed hanging out with them by the pool and at dinner one night.



Chris took a short little scuba diving lesson in the pool one morning. He said it was way harder than it looks!


Had to get one of these pictures of Mya..:)


We only ventured off of the resort once and it was just to walk around the marina area. We had some gelato, saw the manatees and bought souviniers.



All in all, a great trip!