The Wedding

Tracy and I got up around 7:30 and we walked along the beach for a bit then went swimming. The waves were huge, crashing down, it was fun. This was Tracy's first time swimming in an ocean and being on a beach.

We went for breakfast with Terry and Joe, then Tracy and I went back to the beach.

At 11:30 we had to meet up with the airport transport dude to let him know what time to pick us up tomorrow. Our flight leaves at 12:10pm.

We went for lunch and Carlos, a guy who works for the hotel, helping to do entertainment, came and asked us if he could sit and eat with us. We obliged. We talked about his job and he went fishing to see if Tracy was single or not. Haha. He works 6 days a week at the hotel, 12 hours a day. Crazy. Tracy asked him if he had a wife or girlfriend, and he said no, he has no time, he's always working. Tracy feels kind of bad about even being at the resort, being waited on hand and foot by these overworked people who are really just like us in Canada, except we were born into a country where people don't have to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and can have a life outside of work.

We spent the afternoon getting rolled around in the surf. I did learn how to effectively drain my sinuses of water, though. I bent over to do up my velcro on my sandals and water started running, like an open faucet, out of my nose onto the hallway floor. Cool!

Early in the afternoon it started to get cloudy and windy, and as the afternoon went on, it got more windy and more cloudy. The wedding is to take place at 5:00, so the hotel setup the wedding area on the beach earlier in the afternoon. Around 4:30, rain was threatening and it was getting darker and Terri and Joe had to make the decision to move the wedding indoors. It's very rare for rain this time of year on Cancun, the hotel staff were quite surprised.

The wedding was moved to an upstairs, open-air, covered restaurant. They laid out fake (or dead) starfish, making an aisle for the wedding party to walk up. Tracy was Terri's maid of honor. There was only 6 of us at the wedding, myself, Tracy, Joe's mother and her husband (who came over from Ireland), Joe's sister and her daughter. Tracy was the only one from Terri's side of the family.

As Tracy came up the stairs to the aisle, she wasn't watching where she was going and walked on one of the starfish and nearly did a face plant. Haha, it was awesome.

I took lots of pictures and it was a short ceremony, about 15 minutes, then about 45 minutes of pictures. The rain stopped during the ceremony, so they decided to take more pictures out on the beach.

Supper was at one of the fancy restaurants at the resort,a 5-course meal and was delicious. One of the courses was tomato soup with a cream base, and Tracy blurted out for everyone to hear, "This soup is so delicious, I'm gonna get the shits later." Joe and her sister started howling.

Joe's mom and her husband (Joe's stepdad) are awesome. Very Irish, red, red hair, and the husband has a pretty heavy accent. He's 70 years old, but looks and acts like he's 50. Same with Joe's mom. Interesting story, Joe's mom and real dad are divorced, and the guy that she's currenty married to was her first boyfriend, like 50 years ago. And now, 50 years later, they got back together (both of them being divorced).

Tracy and me went to bed around 9:30.