Cancun - Day 7

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I actually don't have much to report about Monday because we didn't really do much of anything. After breakfast we hung out on the beach a bit. Unfortunately, the flags were a mixture of red and yellow (again!) and so we only went into the water for a short time. We spent a little bit of time wave jumping and I tried in vain to build some sand castles. Finally, after I was hit by a giant wave, went under, and swallowed way too much sea water, I had enough of the beach for the day so we headed in to the pool area.

We waded over to the swim up bar to give that a try for awhile. We ordered lunch and some frou frou drinks from the totally crazy mexican bartenders at the swim up bar. I tried out a bit of my really rusty spanish with them.

My favorite part of the swim up bar (other than the crazy bartenders that made us laugh all afternoon) was the big sign that said "Drinks under 18 years old not allowed in bar area."

After we turned into prunes, we headed back over to our lounge chairs to hang out under the sun until happy hour at 3 PM, at which point we went back over to the swim up bar. The bar, which was dead before, was jumping and things were crazy. We had some chips and salsa and one last drink for the day.

Severely sunburned by this point, we went back up to the room to clean up before heading out for one last shopping trip (I wanted a t-shirt) and some dinner. After dinner and shopping, we went back to our room and packed all our stuff before going to bed early (for our 7 AM flight home on Tuesday).

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