Mexico: Cancun

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Le Meridien! It took us about four hours and 15 minutes to get to Cancun after breakfast at Rancho Encantada, which we didn't even realize was right on the water until we saw it in the daylight this morning. It was very peaceful, and we dug the school of catfish.

After leaving the jungle it's certainly a huge change to be here in Cancun. Our hotel is surely luxurious and is almost Disney-esque in its perfection. They charged us $10 each for use of the spa, and it turns out that the fee covers amazing his-and-hers showers and towels, a steam room, an aromatherapeutic sauna, a whirlpool, and a Scandinavian bath -- all very decadent and wonderful. I did some Ham Sa-ing in the sauna and felt very cleansed, especially because I took one shower at the beginning and one at the end. Totally worth the $10.

Before that, we ate lunch at the St. Trop restaurant overlooking the beach, eating the most expensive quesadillas and salad in the history of humankind and enjoying a mojito and mango daiquiri. Then we headed to the beach, where he relaxed in a padded chair and I swam for the first time in the Caribbean Sea. Glorious! Totally salty, mildly wavy, and somehow cool and warm at the same time. Perfect.

Then we went in the pool for a little while before heading to the spa. I don't think we're getting massages as they're truly one million dollars, but that's okay. I feel pampered enough by our beautiful room and this balcony overlooking the water on which I'm sitting at dusk in this robe and slippers smelling of grapefruit lotion and the sea. I feel blessed.