Saturday
- Arrive in CancunResort can't find our reservations under our names, they find our reservations under family company name and let us stay anyway, as long as Dad gave some kind of confirmation to the resort.
- Go to our room on the 8th floor. Check the place out and love it, so big and nice.
- Make Crystal Light (best thing we could've taken, it was so refreshing)
- Go to bed in the biggest bed we've ever slept in.
Sunday
- Wake up to see the beautiful ocean out of our balcony window.The Easter Bunny found us and Jamon got to go on an Easter Hunt. He found Heroes season's 1 & 2, a chocolate bunny, jelly beans and his fav, chicks and bunny sweat tarts.
- Head down to the swimming pool, pick up some towels and snorkeling gear.
- Jamon teaches Staci how to snorkel in the resorts swimming pool - it turned out to be easier then I thought, even though I would try and plug my nose every time I got in the water. I got so excited to try it in the ocean.
- We go for a walk along the beach. The wind was blowing to hard to swim or play in it. We found one spot where there were no rocks so Jamon went in.
- We walk through the Resort where all the "Spring Breakers" were staying. Can you say lots of alcohol?
- Negotiated with tourist attraction vendors and went grocery shopping. Item bought: Bread and Fanta
- Get back to our room to realize we were fried. So much for our wearing tons of sunscreen.
- Staci takes a nap.
- Dad calls to say that he cleared everything up and we can stay.
- Went swimming again.
Monday
- Sleep in.
- Meet with our personal concierge.
- Rent a car and head to Akumal for a snorkeling adventure.
- Realized the adventure was driving in Mexico.
- Ate lunch.
- Found the snorkeling spot and went in for 2 hours. Tons of people, even more fish, and the best part NO waves. So Awesome!!
- Drive back to our Resort.
- Drink and make more Crystal light.
- Jamon tended to Staci's sunburn by putting cold wash clothes on her shoulders, while watching a movie (Mexico TV has tons of Movies, and most of them were in English).
Tuesday
- Get up early to drive to Chichen Itza.
- Arrive at Chichen Itza to find that we can't climb the Pyramids. Clumsy, litigious
Americans. - Bargained for some obsidian souvenirs, a hammock, a hat for Staci and a bag for Jamon.
- Decide not to take the toll road ($15) back to Cancun, so we take another road that takes us through a lot of small towns.
- Can't believe all the "Slug Bugs" that we can see and start playing the "slug bug" game.
- Find a Cenote and go swimming.
- Almost paid local kids to wash our car. Jamon learns to say "Hello" in Mayan.
- Jamon forgets how to say "Hello" in Mayan.
- Staci's tries to barter for a pair of earrings, but Jamon has to come to the rescue.
- Eat dinner, drink Crystal Light, watch movie, go to bed.
Wednesday
- Slept in
- Decide to do some shopping, while we still have the rental car.
- Went to a tourist shopping center, and don't find anything.
- Eat lunch by ourselves in a restaurant.
- Head into Cancun to check out other shops.
- Realize how hard it is to find a parking spot in Mexico
- Walk around and buy a picture frame and reserve a spot on a bus to Xel Ha.
- Can't figure out why people just sit around and stare at everyone walking by.
- Go to the "American" Mall.
- Camera bag gets stolen. Items stolen: new camera Jamon gave Staci for Christmas, new lens Jamon gave Staci for her Birthday, both passports, immigration papers, Staci's glasses, Sodoku book, pen, and souvenir magnet.
- Find Police Station and fill out police report.
- Worst day ever!
- Make more Crystal Light.
Thursday
- Wake up hoping Wednesday was a bad dream.
- Postpone our trip to Xel Ha.
- Go to the US Consulate, they give us the following options: Option #1: apply for new
passports through the consulate, but not get them back until the next Monday or Wednesday. Option #2: Drive to the American Embassy in Merida, a four hour drive, and apply for passports there and get them back in 2-3 hours, which would ensure we go home on Saturday. This would've been the last two days of our trip. Option #3: Hope that our airline would let us in by calling Homeland Security, which happens quite often. - Dad calls the Consulate. Incredible timing that he calls while we are there.
- We decide to choose Option #3.
- With our decision made we catch a ferry to Isla Mujeres.
- See a couple with a Nikon camera and sigh.
- We get on a Snorkeling tour to a Nationally Protected Coral ReefJamon gets frustrated when they make him wear a life jacket while snorkeling.
- Staci gets more and more nervous as she sees how big the waves are, and is grateful for the life jacket.
- We see actual coral and our first star fish.
- Jamon gets even more frustrated that he has to wear a life jacket, but tries to dive anyway, and discovers life jackets actually work.
- Staci is even more grateful for the life jacket, the water was really rough.
- We see three Barracuda, Jamon swims closer, Staci swims away.
- Jamon swims with a Shark.
- We visit a sea turtle hatchery.
- Go back to the island and eat dinner.
- Catch our ferry back to Cancun.
- Drink and make more Crystal light.
Friday
- Wake up early to catch our bus to Xel Ha.
- Bus never comes.
- Call company and they pay for our taxi to meet up with bus.
- Watch Batman Begins on our way to Xel Ha.
- Tour guide says the bus will leave right at 5:30, no exceptions!
- Get a locker for our stuff and get snorkeling gear.
- Go snorkeling for the next 4 hours.
- Hit the all you can eat buffets, twice.
- See some sting rays and manatees.
- Jamon pets sting rays and manatees.
- Jamon considers grabbing sting ray, then remembers how the crocodile hunter died.
- Make a bet on how late the bus will leave.
- Staci guesses right on and wins the bet. Bus leaves at 5:36.
- Finish watching Batman Begins and start watching Hairspray.
- Pack most of our stuff.
- Finish off Crystal Light
Saturday
- Wake up extremely early (2 am Utah time).
- Catch Taxi to the Airport
- Cut to the front of the line and don't feel guilty about it (two flights were leaving that morning).
- Airline worker takes driver's licenses and calls Homeland Security.
- Go to Immigration where the customs official messes with our heads (apparently when the secretary at the police station typed our English version of our report to Spanish she didn't say that both our passports were stolen just Jamon's). The customs official confirmed both passports were stolen, but we mistook his comments thinking he was not going to let Staci leave the country.
- We got on the Plane
- We made it through Customs in Miami. God Bless America!
- Bought a missionary, on his way home to St. George, breakfast.
- Arrive in Utah at 4 pm.
- Go to Addison's first birthday party in Heber.
- Go home and straight to bed, without unpacking or Crystal Light.
More Pics from Cancun
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It started with Staci. 
Then came 
With a backyard 
A new Bed 
New Kitchen table and appliances 
