06-27-2011
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Canada Dry
 Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Posts: 49,566
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Thanks so much for this- great job, love the pics!
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I actually thought he was bigger than he could possibly be, too....barracudas only get to be 4 feet -5 feet long, max.  He looks much longer!!
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07-01-2011
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very sparkly
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Nashville
Posts: 28
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Day 6. 1st full day in Playa.
Up early for comp breakfast under big palapa with our toes in the sand. we're not talkin bout some continental bs, we're talkin full eggs or pancakes or waffles w/bacon or sausage and a side plus coffee and juice. Jesus, Pedro and Carlos and the kitchen and bartender staff took very good care of us for our entire stay. This was our view every morning.  Rosie headed for the beach chair after breakfast and I hiked up to Wallyworld for a few supplys. Just stuff to make Cuba libra's, Sols and some snacks. We chilled out on the beach til late afternoon and headed up to La Tarraya for their famous Margarita's. Here is bartender responsible for the best Rita's in Play.  The Playa Lifeguards were out doing some training. Rosie had me take a picture to show all the girls back home.  We were starting getting a very good buzz and decided to find a Pizza. I had read some of your reviews on La Famiglia and it was close so we headed up to 10th. We settled on mushroom, gr pepper and some kinda italian soft cheese and added bruchetta. Okay, us folks in Nashvegas are brick oven pizza deprived so this was a real treat for us. Best damn pizza I ever ate PERIOD.  Just some random shots on La Quinta. New building going up where I think the Tequila factory was.     In our 16 years of coming to the Maya Riviera, Playa is the biggest town we have stayed in. We are looking forward to discovering more of it in the coming week. |
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07-04-2011
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very sparkly
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Nashville
Posts: 28
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Well, hope everyone had a great 4th of July wkend. Even if your not an American, I hope you celebrated our birthday anyway.
Day 7 I got up early again for a walk on the beach and was presented with a spectacular sunrise. These are all shot w/ my canon D10 set at 800 iso. All handheld. I walked north to the pier at the end of Constituyentes and took these.       Went back and got Rosie and went down for breakfast.Hung out in our chairs on the beach. Trying to find someone who wants to split a halfday fishing with no luck so far. More of day 7 tomorrow. Thanks for the comments from all of you. |
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07-23-2011
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aņejo
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 4,102
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Lovin' your report! I took 16 high school students to Akumal a year ago and we stayed in the bungalows. It was unbelievable!! The kids did some community service work at the Hekab Be Library and enjoyed the snorkeling and hanging out at the pool and on the beach. Looking forward to the rest of your report as we get ready to head to Playa in a couple of weeks.
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11-29-2011
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very sparkly
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Nashville
Posts: 28
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Okay,it's true, I am a procrastinator. I am going to try to button up this TR.
We headed out for dindin and checked out the Tequila sellection at Play Mart. I git some good info from a couple of guys that worked there and narrowed my sellection to take home. Cab to Los Amigos up on 30th. The driver was not familiar with the place and I did not know how to say 26th in spanish but we made it happen. Started off w/ Rita's and ordered the bean soup and pastor tacos. We made a big mistake in ordering our entree before seeing two huge bowls of soup. It reminded us of cajun cookin back home. Rich, hardy and very tasty. I looked over on the grill and saw the cook preparing our filet kebob w/ these huge swords. Needless to say, we took lots of leftovers back to the hotel for snacks the next day. |
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