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  Cancun, Mexico
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Well... made it to Cancun!! Phew!
Hotel nice for a cheap ún. etc etc.
The weather is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot. Wuhoo!
So anyway, my days adventure in Cancun...
  - Jen (one of the girls on my tour, the one that is also from Macc) gets to the hotel in the morning, checks in an gets to share my room. Woo no strangers. We manage breakfast at the hotel - with the waiter taking a photo of the 2 of us on my camera, after putting flowers in our hair. Heehee.
 - We get on a bus, we get of a bus by the beach. So far = success!! Oh, but I forgot my camera for the day. Booo!!
But then I strike...
  Jen leaves to get to her scuba diving course. Iīm ok, I can deal with this. Iīm a cool, successful lone traveller.... or am I?
 To start -  yes! woo!
 Just before lunch I leave the beach (gorgeous white sands, clear water, and it was pretty quiet where we were at) and head along the road to find some food. I stumble upon a bunch of restaurants-clubs. Eek! Must be pretty cool in the evening..but very overpriced for little ole me for lunch alone! But I find lovely wee Mexican place (figured go local! Stay away from the many Maccy Ds, Burger Kings, starbucks..hmm!). Anywho - some Taco-y place. So, I browse the menu.. and order. To my surprise, this teeny dish arrives (maybe the price should have told me so..) but to my credit, tīother groups that come in after me all do the same too. Anyway, turns out with my tiny appetite in hot places this is ideal.
 Then I get a bus.... and hereīs where it goes belly up...
 I get the right one.. itīs heading where I recognise. THEN I start figuring I should be getting off soon, and wait for sth I think I recognise from an earlier journey (well, from the airport really. but should be the same..surely?) Anyway, possibly a liiittle too late I realise that nothing is looking familiar, and it really should be by now.
 Solution - sit and panic for a while. Fool!
 Better solution - GET OFF. So I do. In SERIOUS downtown Cancun. Like..slightly ramshackle, not-so-nice-part-of-town. Iīdīve been worried if it were night! So walk back. back back back back back. All the while panicking a little, as all I know for where Iīm headed anyway is the hotel name (quite a small one though!) and the road name (big massive road. error)
  Reach a roundabout (after, say, 15minutes walk?) See a sign that suggests Avenida Tulum (what I want) is left - my bus had been straight on. I turn left. This turns out to be an error, as I should have gone straight on. Walk walk walk. Panic. Go into a hotel and ask. Bless them!! I get directed onto a bus. I wonder "why canīt I walk?" ..get on said bus and ask for bus terminal.
 ...About 15minutes later on bus I realise bus was a dam good idea. Where the hell was I? (Though walking myself the wrong way didnīt help either)  Stop at stop where many people get off. I panic, is this me? Ask local infront. No - stay on. Other local joins in. Bless lovely old women! FINALLY - reach bus terminal. Get told. Get off.
 Walk correct direction for once (hurrah) and reach hotel. Yesssssssssss, success! A 25min bus journey only took me about an hour longer.....
 Turns out too, with all the walking and panicking and whatnot, my face is red. Uh-oh! Iīm hoping its heat rather than burning... if I could find a picture representing me right now I probably would.. itīd be red + confused (if half an hour ago) or, right now, red, stupidity and great relief. Aaahhhhh
And now Iīm off to the pool to relaaaaaxxxxx. This eve I get to meet my group. Woop. I may keep my massive get-lost ability quiet for now. The list says there are 5 guys, and 10 girls (inc Jen + I) I wonder what theyīre like..... Either way, Iīm always sticking with at least one of them from now on!

So conclusion (thatīs alot to read!)
1 - I am a fool.
 2 - I am a success as I DID make my way back
3 - I got to see seriously downtown Cancun and all it cost me was an hour, an extra bus ticket, and serious amounts of panic/worry. Wahey.

ooooooopsss....
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