Our Thanksgiving Vacation in Playa - Nov. 20th - Nov. 28 - Page 5

Jamey's Husband · 12-16-2009

Lucy:

Mambeaux and I are curious to know if you saw Natasha on the beach at Kool's? If so, how'd see look?

Big Don

LucyE · 12-16-2009

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Did you see Natasha at Kool's???
Lucy:

Mambeaux and I are curious to know if you saw Natasha on the beach at Kool's? If so, how'd see look?

Big Don

Sorry to disappoint guys, but we never made it to Kool's... (too busy eating!) Next installment soon!

Here is a picture of a "photographer" by La Terraya, but no Natasha siting.
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LucyE · 12-16-2009

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Lucy--We love Cueva del Chango's too!! Really can't wait to go back there!! I loved the fresh watermelon juice.

Keep the great TR coming!!

I haven't tried the watermelon. I always seem to get the cantelope everywhere I go. Next installment coming soon. (gotta sort out the pics first.)

LucyE · 12-16-2009

Tuesday, November 24, 2009:
Today was the trip to Tulum with Vanessa. We (at least I was) were so excited!! We met everyone at Java Joes around 8:10 or so. We got a bagel and water to go. The vans got there and we hopped in and off we went. Unfortunately, Amie and Jason’s son got carsick so we had to drop off Amie and her son at the Soriana shopping center so that they could grab a taxi back to their hotel. She didn’t want us to have to turn around and go all the way back into town. I felt so bad for them.

They got a taxi and we proceeded on our trip and arrived at paraiso beach.

We settled into our nice big round bed. It was a bit cloudy and windy, but we didn’t care, we were in paradise! Then the wind picked up some more. Camille and I just covered ourselves with towels trying to shield ourselves from the bad sandblasting we were getting! Around 11:30 some 15 of us got in one of the vans and headed down the road to see Russell’s new hotel—Casa De Las Olas. What a beautiful place!

We were greeted by the fabulous Heather, who will be running the place. We were also greeted by some wonderful tasty margaritas, chips and salsa. It was delicious. We took a tour of two of the rooms then we got to go to the beach. It was amazing! Of course the sun was out and no wind in sight! (figures right!) We chatted a little with Russell and Heather and then it was time to go back to El Paraiso but when we went back to the front, our driver had left! Heather had to call to have the driver come back to pick us up!

After he picked us up, he dropped off most of our group at Mezzanines and he took Michael, Camille and I to El Pollo Bronco. That was some of the best chicken I’ve ever had! The potato was fabulous but the spaghetti was a tad salty, so we didn’t eat it. After lunch, the driver took us back to El Paraiso and when we were walking back, the guard told me that I couldn’t take food to the beach so I went back to the van and gave it to one of the drivers. I hope he didn’t throw it away!
We hung out at El Paraiso for a little while longer. I went to the ladies room and I saw two ladies dressed in white dresses doing their hair and makeup. As I walked back to our bed, I noticed they were preparing an area under some palm trees for a wedding. A little after the wedding started, Penny and her friends noticed that Ty Pennington was sitting at a table with a group. The ladies went over and asked him if they could take his picture, but he declined.

Then a little later a bunch of us were watching the wedding ceremony and I guess he thought we were looking at him, until he figured out we were actually watching the ceremony. Then he walked towards the restroom, right in front of the ceremony (I guess so we could see him walk by), then he walked back to his group. A few minutes later, we were still turning around every once in a while to catch a view of the ceremony and we saw that Ty and his entourage decided to leave. I guess we weren’t paying enough attention to him.
A little while later, we took a van back to Tulum pueblo to visit Vicente’s jewelry store. We all ooo’d and aaahh’d, at all the stuff. Some people bought some stuff and then it was time to head back to Playa. The van dropped us off at the corner by Java Joe’s. We then grabbed a taxi back to the condo, showered, changed and went to dinner at Babes. Michael had beer, Camille ordered some kind of Mango juice and I had the strawberry daiquiri. We ordered the chicken rolls and a small order of the Swedish meatballs—delicious! For our entrée’s Michael had the Pad Thai, Camille the Teriyaki (or sesame) Chicken and I had the pork fillet. Camille didn’t care for her dish, so she ordered a full order of the Swedish meatballs. Total was around $635. We walked around and shopped for Michael’s calendar some more and he finally found it. While we were in the store paying for it, it started pouring so we hailed a taxi backed to the condo. Luckily they found a big black trash bag to fit the calendar inside otherwise, it would have gotten damaged! We pretty much crashed as soon as we got home. What a fun filled day! Thank you Vanessa!!
Michael and I at Paraiso Beach
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Some of the Chicas and Chico

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Walkway at Casa de las Olas

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Russell making some very yummy margaritas!

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Property pics:

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Couple of the rooms:

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Beach at Casa de las Olas

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Trish&Chad · 12-16-2009

Boy, you'd think Ty Pennington would have been nice, wouldn't you?

LucyE · 12-16-2009

More pics coming!

Pollo Bronco chicken - OMG delicious!

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Babe's Noodle Bar pics:

My Strawberry Daiquiri

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Chicken rolls

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Michael's dish

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Camille's dish

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My dish

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And let's not forget the swedish meatballs!

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LucyE · 12-16-2009

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Boy, you'd think Ty Pennington would have been nice, wouldn't you?

I know! Especially if some hot chicks in bikinis go up to him and ask him right! Oh well, it was his loss.

gingele · 12-16-2009

Hey Lucy! It was nice meeting you for all of 5 minutes on that trip! (The joys of parenting, huh?) Thanks for being understanding. I'm just glad Sam was sitting next to his uncle and not one of you guys!

And thanks for posting photos of the day! Great pic here of you and Michael. Of course I'm partial to the little surfer dude, too

LucyE · 12-16-2009

Hi Amy!
yes, your other son had such a great time in the water! He was out there a lot!! I'm glad that he enjoyed that day. I was too busy hiding under my towel dodging the free exfoliation that we got.

I swear I had sand EVERYWHERE... even in my ears!

**Heather** · 12-16-2009

This one is of my little casita, over the bodega at the back of the Main House. May I steal this photo, Lucy?

Sue · 12-16-2009

God, Heather. I could just strangle you, you are so lucky!!!!!

LucyE · 12-16-2009

Hi Heather! Yes, I remember that was a pic of your new pad... but I didn't want to post that on the board. But I'm glad you did!!

Of course you can steal this pic... after all its your house!

BTW Michael's daughter told everyone in the van when we left that she wanted to get married there (she's not even engaged though). I told her we could have the wedding somewhere else and she could have her honeymoon there! She liked that idea better.... not sure if Michael did though.

**Heather** · 12-16-2009

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Originally Posted by Sue

God, Heather. I could just strangle you, you are so lucky!!!!!

Don't I know it, Sue!

Luckiest person I know...don't know what I did to deserve it, but I try to give back to the universe what she brings to me.

culater88 · 12-16-2009

Lucy, great trip report. I need to find out how to get to the Tulum beaches instead of getting lost.

Guitar Playa · 12-17-2009

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Originally Posted by LucyE

Uh oh! Van left us!

Great report Lucy

Wonderful to finally meet you, Michael and Camille.
This photo made me laugh.......Camille expression is priceless.

12-16-2009	#64 (permalink)
LucyE añejo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Torrance, CA Posts: 7,242	Tuesday, November 24, 2009: Today was the trip to Tulum with Vanessa. We (at least I was) were so excited!! We met everyone at Java Joes around 8:10 or so. We got a bagel and water to go. The vans got there and we hopped in and off we went. Unfortunately, Amie and Jason’s son got carsick so we had to drop off Amie and her son at the Soriana shopping center so that they could grab a taxi back to their hotel. She didn’t want us to have to turn around and go all the way back into town. I felt so bad for them. They got a taxi and we proceeded on our trip and arrived at paraiso beach. We settled into our nice big round bed. It was a bit cloudy and windy, but we didn’t care, we were in paradise! Then the wind picked up some more. Camille and I just covered ourselves with towels trying to shield ourselves from the bad sandblasting we were getting! Around 11:30 some 15 of us got in one of the vans and headed down the road to see Russell’s new hotel—Casa De Las Olas. What a beautiful place! We were greeted by the fabulous Heather, who will be running the place. We were also greeted by some wonderful tasty margaritas, chips and salsa. It was delicious. We took a tour of two of the rooms then we got to go to the beach. It was amazing! Of course the sun was out and no wind in sight! (figures right!) We chatted a little with Russell and Heather and then it was time to go back to El Paraiso but when we went back to the front, our driver had left! Heather had to call to have the driver come back to pick us up! After he picked us up, he dropped off most of our group at Mezzanines and he took Michael, Camille and I to El Pollo Bronco. That was some of the best chicken I’ve ever had! The potato was fabulous but the spaghetti was a tad salty, so we didn’t eat it. After lunch, the driver took us back to El Paraiso and when we were walking back, the guard told me that I couldn’t take food to the beach so I went back to the van and gave it to one of the drivers. I hope he didn’t throw it away! We hung out at El Paraiso for a little while longer. I went to the ladies room and I saw two ladies dressed in white dresses doing their hair and makeup. As I walked back to our bed, I noticed they were preparing an area under some palm trees for a wedding. A little after the wedding started, Penny and her friends noticed that Ty Pennington was sitting at a table with a group. The ladies went over and asked him if they could take his picture, but he declined. Then a little later a bunch of us were watching the wedding ceremony and I guess he thought we were looking at him, until he figured out we were actually watching the ceremony. Then he walked towards the restroom, right in front of the ceremony (I guess so we could see him walk by), then he walked back to his group. A few minutes later, we were still turning around every once in a while to catch a view of the ceremony and we saw that Ty and his entourage decided to leave. I guess we weren’t paying enough attention to him. A little while later, we took a van back to Tulum pueblo to visit Vicente’s jewelry store. We all ooo’d and aaahh’d, at all the stuff. Some people bought some stuff and then it was time to head back to Playa. The van dropped us off at the corner by Java Joe’s. We then grabbed a taxi back to the condo, showered, changed and went to dinner at Babes. Michael had beer, Camille ordered some kind of Mango juice and I had the strawberry daiquiri. We ordered the chicken rolls and a small order of the Swedish meatballs—delicious! For our entrée’s Michael had the Pad Thai, Camille the Teriyaki (or sesame) Chicken and I had the pork fillet. Camille didn’t care for her dish, so she ordered a full order of the Swedish meatballs. Total was around $635. We walked around and shopped for Michael’s calendar some more and he finally found it. While we were in the store paying for it, it started pouring so we hailed a taxi backed to the condo. Luckily they found a big black trash bag to fit the calendar inside otherwise, it would have gotten damaged! We pretty much crashed as soon as we got home. What a fun filled day! Thank you Vanessa!! Michael and I at Paraiso Beach [font=Calibri][size=3] [IMG] [/IMG] Some of the Chicas and Chico [IMG][/IMG] Walkway at Casa de las Olas [IMG][/IMG] I could eat some of this right about now! [IMG][/IMG] Russell making some very yummy margaritas! [IMG][/IMG] Property pics: [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] Couple of the rooms: [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] Beach at Casa de las Olas [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] Uh oh! Van left us! [IMG][/IMG] __________________ Lucy 04/05/08 - 04/12/08 - The Mayan with the family 06/04/09 - 06/11/09 - Aventura Mexicana 11/20/09 - 11/28/09 - Rosa Blanca Condo, Playacar 11/19/10 - 11/27/10 - Blanco Paraiso #2 05/07/11 - 05/14/11 - Luna Blue 11/18/11 - 11/26/11 - Casa Susana, Playacar 05/05/12 - 05/14/12 - La Tortuga 11/17/12 - 11/24/12 - Hacienda Paradise *Til Crazy Peeps Week!!! YEAH!!!* Last edited by LucyE; 12-16-2009 at 02:29 PM.. Reason: adding pics.

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LucyE añejo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Torrance, CA Posts: 7,242	More pics coming! Pollo Bronco chicken - OMG delicious! [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] Babe's Noodle Bar pics: My Strawberry Daiquiri [IMG][/IMG] Chicken rolls [IMG][/IMG] Michael's dish [IMG][/IMG] Camille's dish [IMG][/IMG] My dish [IMG][/IMG] And let's not forget the swedish meatballs! [IMG][/IMG] Last edited by LucyE; 12-16-2009 at 02:40 PM.. Reason: adding pics

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Jamey's Husband very sparkly Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fort Wayne, IN Posts: 33	Did you see Natasha at Kool's??? Lucy: Mambeaux and I are curious to know if you saw Natasha on the beach at Kool's? If so, how'd see look? Big Don

12-16-2009	#65 (permalink)
Trish&Chad añejo Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,959	Boy, you'd think Ty Pennington would have been nice, wouldn't you?

12-16-2009	#68 (permalink)
gingele añejo Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chicagoland Posts: 11,441	Hey Lucy! It was nice meeting you for all of 5 minutes on that trip! (The joys of parenting, huh?) Thanks for being understanding. I'm just glad Sam was sitting next to his uncle and not one of you guys! And thanks for posting photos of the day! Great pic here of you and Michael. Of course I'm partial to the little surfer dude, too

12-16-2009	#69 (permalink)
LucyE añejo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Torrance, CA Posts: 7,242	Hi Amy! yes, your other son had such a great time in the water! He was out there a lot!! I'm glad that he enjoyed that day. I was too busy hiding under my towel dodging the free exfoliation that we got. I swear I had sand EVERYWHERE... even in my ears!

12-16-2009	#70 (permalink)
Heather employee of the month Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Playa del Carmen Posts: 14,588	This one is of my little casita, over the bodega at the back of the Main House. May I steal this photo, Lucy?

12-16-2009	#71 (permalink)
Sue añejo Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Playa del Carmen Posts: 16,247	God, Heather. I could just strangle you, you are so lucky!!!!!

12-16-2009	#72 (permalink)
LucyE añejo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Torrance, CA Posts: 7,242	Hi Heather! Yes, I remember that was a pic of your new pad... but I didn't want to post that on the board. But I'm glad you did!! Of course you can steal this pic... after all its your house! BTW Michael's daughter told everyone in the van when we left that she wanted to get married there (she's not even engaged though). I told her we could have the wedding somewhere else and she could have her honeymoon there! She liked that idea better.... not sure if Michael did though.

12-16-2009	#74 (permalink)
culater88 into ruins Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Central New Jersey Posts: 61	Lucy, great trip report. I need to find out how to get to the Tulum beaches instead of getting lost.

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