Im home. And boy oh boy do I love travelling. I've already planned my next trip in full, for sure. Anyways I shall tell you all about my wonderous vacation. My parents drove me and bryan to calgary last friday, and we met up with bryans mom at the mcdonalds in strathmore. Then the next day at the airport I was majorly stressed out. We didnt know where to go, or really what to do considering I have never been in an airport by myself. I guess it wasnt really by myself since bryan and his parents were there too. But It was all fine once i got on a plane. Even though that was a little scary too. But exciting. We got there at 8 at night, their time, which is an hour ahead of alberta. The customs there is pretty neat, the guy tells you to push a button and if the street light thing goes red you get searched, if not, your free to go on. So we get to the hotel, go for supper. A "welcome supper" It was a different theme every night at the buffet restaurant. Our rooms... well they had two beds which was kinda weird. But we just used one for our luggage, much more conveniant than the floor. We found a gecko the first night, and named him fernando. We found only three more, but it was ok. We explored the malecon the first night there. It was so cool. I honestly felt safer on a saturday night in the middle of downtown puerto vallarta than I would in medicine hat. Theres just so many people, they just dont go to sleep! The road in front of our hotel was constantly busy too, all night there was non stop traffic, it was pretty cool. Sunday was just shopped and lounged out by the pool and ocean. Monday, My birthday!! we lounged for a bit, then went to nuevo vallarta to the sea life park. Which was basically a water slide park with a dolphin tank and sea lion tank. We watched the dolphin show, then I got sad when the whole audience got to go swim with the dolphins and I didnt :( So then we just went to look at the sea lions and go down a couple water slides. Then we got bored of it so we went back to the hotel and sat by the ocean. Then we saw a wild dolphin, it was super cool. And since it was my birthday we had tequila shots at the beach bar.
Tuesday was the day that we did our whale watching/snorkelling tour it was really fun. We went whale watching for about two hours then we sailed away to the marietas islands which were just volcanic rock islands, they werent exactly beautiful and they were covered in cactuses. We jumped in the water from the side of our boat and there were hundreds of fish, bryan was in his glory. So of course, he was also the last one back in the boat. Then we went to paradise beach by punta mita. It was super nice white sand beaches with tide pools on the rocks. I got burnt there because since we were only going to be there for an hour, we left our sunscreen on the boat. But it was awesome.
The rest of the week we just chilled, walked around town and explored. One day we went to the market, that was a little creepy. We bought one blanket, then walked around and some guy asked me how much I paid for it, i told him and he coaxed me into his shop and he would give me another blanket for a better price. There were two guys, one led me to the blankets then the other guy led bryan to the cigars. Then the one guy decided to show me the pipes with the mexican clay people doing it on it... and he said something perverted and grabbed my hand, led me to the blankets, and kept holding my hand. That was creepy. I got out of there rather fast after that.
The rest of the week was mellow and relaxing.
The plane ride back was shitty, super shitty. Our flight left at 9, so we had to be there at 6. We got to the airport and we were practically last in line. So we didnt get to sit together. Instead I had to sit beside safari mario and his fat, big breasted wife with a gobbel chin. I got there before they did, and the first thing I saw when he was putting his stuff in the overhead compartment was his big pit sweat stain... needless to say, they stank as well. Not only were they elbowing me the whole time other safari joe in front of me kept moving his seat back, when i was trying to eat!!! I had the isle seat, and im not good in moving things when I cant see outside, so I was a little nauseas. Then what pissed me off even more was when we flying over arizona you could see the grand canyons from the plane, but do you think I ever got a chance to see it? nooooooo safari mario and gobbel chin had their big heads over the little window THE WHOLE TIME, and he was taking pictures. argh.
Bryan brought back two bottle of tequila and a smuggled mezcal (but not really)
When we were there we bought these cool day of the dead t-shirts and I bought matching earings. Of course, I was playing with the mezcal today in my pocket when we were walking back from the movie store and my earings were in there, so... guess what, I lost one of my earings already. I will post pictures maybe later tonight or tomorrow. But I will write some more later.
Oh and as for my other vacation in 2008. Im going to belize for two or three weeks with bryans mom and step dad. They have the best snorkelling there supposedly, and world renown scuba. my cousin has been there... figures.