Sunday, August 28, 2011

Puerto Vallarta - Day 1

Ok Mom, I know you have been waiting and waiting for our trip pics, so here goes! I took a ton so I decided to divide it up by days. Bear with me...

We got up bright and early (ok, maybe more like dark and early!) and headed off to the airport with Mike and Jamie.
SO EXCITED!

Our flights went pretty well. Not sure if I will fly into San Francisco again, given the choice. Our flight was delayed a bit due to fog (when is there not fog in SF?) and landing right next to another plane at the same time on adjacent runways is a bit freaky. But we made our connecting flight and landed in Puerto Vallarta right on time.

We took a shuttle to our resort and wow, it was amazing! I have pics here and there, none that really do it justice at all. The Grand Mayan was beautiful and I can't imagine that I will ever stay somewhere else like it, ever. When you walked into the main entrance, it was pitch black with little shafts of light shining on 8 massive Mayan idols/gods, probably 4 stories tall at least. Mayan drums were being played and wow, it was impressive.
One of the feet of the Mayan gods

Some of the artwork on the way to our rooms

After agreeing to listen to a timeshare presentation the next day, we got upgraded to ocean view rooms. Yeah, Baby!!
The view from our balcony.

This is the lazy river straight down from our balcony. We spent lots of time on it!

Our room

After getting our stuff settled, we headed down to find some food. We ate at Samba, one of the resort restaurants.
You gotta have margaritas in Mexico!!



The view from our table

Nachos!!

As it grew dark that evening, the clouds rolled in and we witnessed the most amazing thunder and rain storm I have ever seen! It was awesome!!

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