Family Fun in the Playa Sun

[Adie]

Well we made it back, all of us, amazingly. We did loose our redhead, momentarily in Walmart. When we were just about to panic, he came around the corner with a look that said, "hey, where were you guys?". I love my little man, but sometimes I think he will be the death of me

On November 18th, my husband and I and our 5 kids left for the airport at 5:30 am to meet up with my parents. We are actually on time, it is a miracle. We had an uneventful and might I even say restful flight. The kids did great and in no time at all we were in Cancun. Now for the not so restful part... We were meeting up with my sister, who was flying in from L.A. We waited, and waited and waited and no auntie....hmmm..after an hour of waiting, we finally realize we are in terminal 3 and she is flying into terminal 2. She takes the shuttle over and we are off. Everyone is happy now. Our poor van driver has stopped his frantic pacing and is now flirting with my pretty single sister. All is right with the world.

Up next...Casa Chaac, playacar, Tulum, Xelha, Xcaret and the gang...oh, and pictures of course

[Adie]

We arrived at Casa Chaac around 3pm. This is the view from the back patio.

Not too shabby This is a great house. It has 3 bedrooms on the main floor, with their own baths and a loft kids room that has 4 twin beds and its own bath. The kitchen is large, with lots of counter space and 2 refrigerators. The pool is amazing and we had a blast with it.


After settling in we went to the beach, it was just a walk to the end of the yard and then across the development road. Very safe.

We had the beach to our selves most days.
Casa Chaac in Playacar - Home Page

up next the chefs from Daveed's Chef service arrive!!

[Adie]

Knowing how tired we would all be, and that sitting through a lengthy meal at a restaurant with 5 kids, might not end well, we decided to book Daveed's Chef service. Daveed and his assistants were great. We were all well fed for a reasonable price and he took special care of my gluten free needs. And ladies...these wonderful gentlemen are not hard on the eyes

Daveed cooked for us for 3 nights as well as doing some of our grocery shopping. He really has a great service. You can find him on facebook

[cancuncruiser]

This is good!

[Adie]

Saturday arrives and here comes the rain...and sun...and rain...and torrential downpour...and sun. We used our day to relax and run back and forth to the beach, when the rain got so hard it hurt we went inside. Our meals were left overs from Daveed's feast the night before. Nothing exciting today...just a restful day and out for dinner at night.
Some more house and beach pics



Love the last picture of my littlest one. It just screams "joy" to me.

Before the rains my husband and I took 3 of the kids into town and let the two oldest boys sleep in. We stopped in at Carboncitos for some smoothies and shared a fruit plate and chicken enchiladas. I love smoothies with Chaya in them. Yummy. The kids didn't share my love, but loved their own coconut concoctions. As always, it was a good meal. We decided to walk up the beach on the way back. My oldest daughter, poor thing, got cut on a sharp object on the beach. Luckily we were not to far from the house and we patched her up in no time. Arrived at Casa Chaac and the boys were up. We had planned another beach and pool day in between the rain showers. Tonight we would go into town to eat. This would be my parents and sisters first sight time into town. As soon as we entered the town with our group the shop keepers kept yelling out to us "cheaper by the dozen". I lost count of how many times they called this to us over the week. I think the funniest reference to our family size was the one man who asked my husband if they were all his. When he replied yes, the man said, "way to go big daddy, your gooooood". And that was the name the shop keepers called my husband all week, "big daddy". He is 6foot3, so it fit They also for some reason always called out “you from Poland?”
Here's a picture of "big daddy". I love my handsome man.

anywho...where was I...oh, dinner. So my parents are not very adventurous eaters, so that limited us a bit. We decided Los Rancheros would be safe choice for them and we did have a very nice meal there. We ate outside on the balcony and it was fun to people watch. After dinner we needed a walmart trip. My daughter had forgotten her special “blankie” at home and she was in desperate need of a substitute. So off the Walmart we went. After finding the blankies and convincing our little one that it would indeed smell like her other blankie (ewww) after a few nights, we got some food items and I took a taxi back to the house with the three littlest ones. The rest of the group decided to do some more walking and ice cream eating. They returned t.i.r.e.d. Glad I got the taxi back
some pretty plants on our way into town.



Tomorrow..Sunday…

[Adie]

Sunday we stayed close to home most of they day, beach and pool, beach and pool. What a rough life We went into town for dinner and ate at Rhondali's pizza in the playacar plaza. It was very good. I had the ribeye, it was delicious. I drooled over everyone else's gluten We topped it off with dessert at the same spot. The icecream and tiramisu got raves, the chocolate cake, not so much.
Some more pics of the beach and house:

A little friend we spied trying to cross the road.




Mini beach cliff.


Sisterly love

My redheaded man
Tomorrow, Monday another beach day and the Chef's return

[Adie]

So Monday my husband decides it is time to take his women into town for lunch. So off we go. Destination Carboncitos. Mission: to introduce the girls to the best taco's ever!


Beauty #1

Both beauties.



We arrive at Carboncitos and order the pork, steak and chicken tacos to share around. The girls agreed that they are the best.

When will my taco ever get here?


My Taco!!

MMM....yummy

That evening the chefs's from Daveed's Chef service made us arrachera with roasted potatoes, creamed corn and rice and sausage flavored beans. Yummmmy. A great job as usual.
Off to bed for a good night sleep...Tomorrow is Tueday and we head to our tour of Tulum, Xelha and Xcaret.

[Adie]

This was and adventurous day. I would not recommend this itinerary. Less is more. That being said, we started our day by walking down to meet our van at the Palace Playacar. As were are waiting I notice on my documents that they want the original credit card, so off my husband runs back to the house. He arrives in time to pop on the van before it leaves with out him. Of course, we were never asked for this during the whole, day Way to take one for the team, hon!
Off to Tulum, it is hot, their are fire ants, there are crying miserable children, only some of them are other peoples. There are hasty, testy words. We make it out alive, all accounted for, no injuries. We will count this as a success. I am happy at least the older 3 kids could say "I saw what the ancient mayans built. Enough said about Tulum.

My red head loves lizzards, they were every where.


Off to Xel-ha
Had lunch at the buffet, it was good.
We tried snorkling with the group, but it was just too tiring for the little ones. So we hit the ziplines. And stayed there most of the day. The kids and adults had a blast with this. After we were done here, got changed and were off to Xcaret for the night show and dinner.
The kids loved this. It really is a great show. My 10 year old, said"I was reading about the game they were playing in my history book". This made my day!
The meal was a nice touch with the show, it would have been really long for the littler ones if they weren't occupied with that. We got home around 830pm. Not to bad. Exhausted but glad we got to share this with our family.

Fire hockey fascinated the boys. We had to put a warning of "do not attempt this at home".

[Adie]

Wednesday was the usual beach pool day and the chef's came to cook their last meal for all but my husband and I, who went out on a date.

Poor kids..stand there with the sun in your eyes so I can take a picture of you.
Our date night started with a nice walk into town and dinner at Sur. I love Sur. Great food, great people watching. After dinner and dessert, we explore the town once again, stop into tequilla barrel for a drink and the head back to walk along the beach. It is peaceful and we are in our favorite place, enough said
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving!
We do the usual beach, pool thing and then head to La Parilla for our Thanksgiving feast.

Here is the whole gang. This was a great end of our vacation. We all truly had a great time. Next time though...It will be a trip just for my husband and I

[Jacko]

Great looking family...love your pool and view at the casa...at first I thought your "redheaded man" had caught a lizard..second look revealed the sunglasses...thanks for posting this!

[mrsr05]

beautiful family, beautiful children and great pics.. thank you so much for sharing... haha and i thought i was the only crazy woman with 5 kids!!! lol

[Adie]

Thanks Jacko and MrsR05

[Adie]

Originally Posted by cancuncruiser

This is good!

Thanks

[lindalou61]

Great report. Thanks for sharing. And here is one more crazy woman who raised 5! Except ours are all grown!

[DarMI]

Nice job, beautiful family. Looks like everyone had a great time. Thanks for sharing