Heading to Paradise

A friend went on a trip during Spring Break to Mexico with her mom and sisters, and she came home raving about how amazing it was to stay at an all-inclusive resort.  After talking about it for a couple of months we started researching possible places we could go to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary (they're celebrating their 25th).  We considered a couple of different locations, but we ended up going with Tulum, Mexico.  I love to explore and see new things, and my husband loves to sit in one place and not move.  Tulum was a good compromise.  We could do excursions but also have lots of time to nap and lay on the beach.  

We had to leave at the crack of dawn, but we had a long layover, so there was absolutely no stress getting to the Cancun Airport.  We played Skull King, and Joel would like it documented that he went from being 200 points behind to beating me by 10 points.  It took us a while to find our driver, but once it was arranged it was an easy 90 minute drive South. 

We stayed at Tulum, but it was connected to 2 other resorts: Acumel and Coba.  You could take a cart around to the different resorts. 

Coba lobby:

 

Acumal lobby:

Our Tulum lobby:

We loved where we stayed.  It was a 3 minute walk to the beach and a pool.  We had very special neighbors.  We were greeted by iguanas every morning when we left our room.

It was paradise!

I loved all of the bright colors, and it was so fun to see bananas growing outside our building and coconuts falling everywhere. 

There were all kinds of interesting animals around the resort as well.  We saw agoutis (kind like a big rodent) and coatis called nasuas (their version of a raccoon).

Everyday we saw something new and unexpected.  It was so fun!