Dan and I had an amazing time in Rivera Maya, Mexico at the Barcelo Resort! (all-inclusive I might add). It was just so relaxing....and also weird to relax! It had been so long since we had done absolutely nothing! The past 16+ months have been insane, not to mention the past recent month alone! So there were many moments of just realizing what all had happened and that we were on the beach just enjoying each other's company. We both definitely needed it! Here are some highlights and some of my favorite photos from the trip (PS-do you know how hard it is to get a picture together when you don't know anyone around you and no one speaks English?! :)
Some of our favorite memories are:
1. When the concierge called our hotel room and I answered. He asked me if my parents were there! I need to practice my adult voice I guess!
2. Going to the Hibachi grill 2 nights because we loved it so much!
3. Dan climbing a palm tree to get a coconut.
4. Snorkeling and kayaking!
5. Almost every night we went to the hotel outdoor theater to see the different shows that were playing. Each day, the hotel hung a poster to let everyone know what the show was that night. We saw the poster that read "Perros y Gatos" (meaning "Dogs and Cats") and it had little pictures of dogs and cats! I said, "Dan! I really want to see that!!" He was not surprised since it involved what we assumed to be little dogs doing tricks. That whole day I even kept talking about the show and how I hope the Mexican people are really nice to the doggies. When we got to the theater, we got some drinks and instead of sitting at the bar like we had been every night before, we decided to sit really close to the stage so that, you guessed it, Natalie could see the little doggies doing their tricks. Not shortly after we sat down, a person with the show approached us and asked us if we could participate in a game. We said, sure, thinking it was a little pre-show thing, what the heck, why not. So we are called onto stage with 3 other couples (one from Seattle, one from Canada, one from Argentina). We start to play a game on stage where Dan has to sing into the microphone until he runs out of breath and I had to jump rope as fast as I could until he was done and whichever couple got the most jumps won! Well, I did get first place in jump roping annually in our elementrary school "play day" so I knew it was in the bag. And we did win! But, little did we know, there were more games and this WAS the show! We were on the "Gattos" team (us and one other couple) and the other two couples were on the "Perros" team! We thought, no way! So, we were on stage for about an hour and a half in the heat and under hot lights and never saw any cats or dogs doing tricks!! The only people doing tricks were us! After the jump rope game, we had to play a celebrity guessing game that involved running as fast as you could to yell which celebrity was on the big screen. Following this was a dancing contest where Dan and I did everything from the lawn mower to the fisherman catching the fish move. After this, Dan had to sit on a chair while I had to run at full speed toward him with a balloon and pop it on him any way I could three times! What a circus! Definitely a great memory though! Wow, sorry for the length of this one!
6. Eating, drinking and re-living the wedding day!
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