I have a tanline around my wrist from my hairtie.

We finally made it to Cozumel! Yaaay! No flamingos, though :(

We managed to get up (relatively) early today, so we headed back out to Playa del Carmen so we could catch a ferry to Cozumel. Once we got there, we rented a dune buggie and a jeep so we could drive around the island.

For the beginning of the day, Umma, Gianni, James and I were in the dune buggie and Oppa, Uncle Brian, and Halmony were in the Jeep. Both these cars were manual, which led to some fun adventures. Team Jeep drove off first so Team Dune Buggie (TJ and TDB from here on out) could follow. However, TJ made it maybe 20 yards before they had to pull over and wait for TDB because we hadn't moved at all. Umma was having trouble starting the car because not only was it manual, but many of its components were also broken (including the emergency brake. Aweeessssommmmeee...). Umma also put a scare into the rental car people because they were not even sure that she could drive a stick as she couldn't get it out of the parking area at first. After about 15 minutes, TDB finally got the car moving and we started to drive/inch along in first gear as the car made not-so-reassuring sounds. I'm pretty sure James and I feared for our lives because he kept repeating, "We should have just gotten two Jeeps," while I shouted more OMG's than a Gossip Girl character. During this whole ride, Umma laughed maniacally from the driver's seat and Gianni was too dignified to say anything.

Umma says that every time she goes to Cozumel, she remembers again that that's her favorite part of the Cancun trip. She just told me to write that.

Oppa says Zulu.

Anyway, we found some restaurant on the beach so we stopped there to eat and swim. Umma, Oppa, and Halmony shared a plate that had half the population of the Ocean. It looked INTENSE. Grouper, lobster, octapus, shrimp, conch, calamari, vegetables, and rice.

I'm done with blogging. James shall finish this one.


Before I start off I want to say ZUUUULLLLUUUUU.
WORD OF THE DAY: "Tope!" (spanish for speed bump)
Oppa's rule of the week: "No making fun of James"
A N D F I N A L L Y . . .
Phrase of the week: "James is regressing"
(I'm now a monkey)

Mia got the meaning of TDB wrong. It's actually Team Death Buggie. She also didn't mention that when we ate, the fly population of Mexico was trying to eat our food. Mmmmm burgers... Anyways after we ate, we decided to stay at "Paradise" Beach where everything fun costed money.

Actually it was pretty cheap (it was only $10 USD total) to do all the fun things. I sadly didn't do any of them because I'm lazy. So really it's all my fault, and I shouldn't be as bitter, but yeah. Instead of doing any of that, I snorkled and played with "Squishy". Squishy was a little hermit crab. We also saw a giant silver fish jump out of the water and splash back down.

After we left the beach, we drove a bit and went to the RASTA BAR!!!

Yay I got to have Coca-Cola. That and look at fascinating crabs in the rocks and tide pools. After the Rasta bar, we drove more and went to another rocky beach. There I discovered more crabs. The beach itself was pretty cool. It was surrounded by rocks, so all the rough waves broke against them, leaving a nice, calm, pool-like body of water.



After swimming, there was a bit of a panic as umma thought she lost the keys to the jeep in the sand somewhere. After some time spent looking we discovered that the key had attached itself to the snorkeling bag and we found it. From there, we drove for a long time, (Team Death Buggie consisted of Oppa, Uncle B, Gianni, and me, while TNCJ [Team nice, comfortable jeep] consisted of Umma, Mia, and Halmony) We drove all the way back to town and returned the cars. We also saw 4 people ride one scooter, no joke. The order was kid in front then adult, then kid, then adult on the back of the scooter.



Again only will you see this in Mexico.

Umma had to argue with the people because we returned the cars an hour late. Having too much fun. Then "we" shopped. In the meantime, five of the members of our party (Oppa, Gianni, Uncle B, Mia, and I) sat in a nice park. ZUUUULLLUUUU. Yeah Gianni, Oppa, and I were talking about Deadliest Warrior, and Ancient Rome and Greece. We then got onto the boat for Playa del Carmen. From there, we drove back, passing by dangerously placed fires within cans on the way. By dangerously placed I mean they were DANGEROUSLY PLACED. The flames were almost licking the tips of dried brush. At "home" we ate ramen. YUMM. They then made me wear some silly mask. I feel weird.

Overall today's adventure was actually fun.

SEACREST OUT... lolz



PS. I was wearing my shorts and thought that I had forgotten my swim trunks at the place. When I asked Umma about this, she was like, "Oh don't worry, just go swimming in your shorts." I was like, "Ok...". Later, at the beach, Umma noticed my shorts and started cracking up, and asking why I was shorts. She forgot that she told me that (even though I wasn't the only one who heard her say that), and would later just state that it was meant as sarcasm or a joke.


This is Mia again. I just wanted to add that Squishy was awesome and he (or she... I don't know how to tell the gender of a hermit crab...) made me miss when we used to have like 5 hermit crabs. Don't tell Bruce, though.

These are a few parts of today James didn't mention:

-Part of that $10 thing James wrote about earlier included learning to climb a fake coconut tree to reach a fake coconut.

-You know in movies where someone is holding a knife, but then they have to swim, so they carry it in their teeth while they swim? I got to do that today. I feel 35% more awesome than I did yesterday.

-We are all wearing weird white masks. Not just James. They're supposed to make our skin soft or something? I don't know, mine hasn't fallen off yet.

-Today while we were at that beach that was enclosed in sharp, dangerous rocks (like James said earlier though, the part we were swimming at was really calm because the scary rocks broke the big waves), Uncle Brian told James, "Don't pass the rocks." James, in his infinite wisdom decided that swimming around the rocks was different than passing them, and got in trouble for being a doofus.

-I am sunburnt and I think it's because of bad karma from making fun of other sunburnt tourists. Oh, except I'm still considerably less burnt than the funny ones.

-We saw a guy wearing a speedo, and collectively decided that those should no longer be allowed on men because now, even competitive swimmers have something different.

-We also watched two guys on a kayak. One fell off and as he was trying to get back on, the whole thing tipped over and both guys were in the water. It took them 5-10 minutes to get back on, and this whole time, Uncle Brian, James, and I watched and laughed. We are made of evil.

-Umma almost hit a dog , but swerved out of the way just in time :)


Anyway, I think tomorrow is a day of relaxation. Which is awesome, because it's like 3 am and Blogger still isn't uploading our pictures :(
Until tomorrow,
Mia, Uncle Brian, and Jamesie.
And Squishy, in spirit.



Wherever you are now, godspeed, little friend.