Sheryl Update

On Sunday we went to the beach in the town of Progresso. It’s only a 20 minute Uber ride away. We started at breakfast with the above view. We ate a big breakfast which was good so we were not hungry for all the food the vendors were selling.

This guy had an entre bakery on his head. The table he was carrying was so he could put the container down for you to chose.

Was already wearing clothes so didn’t need any of these.

Had a beach bag. Didn’t need any baskets.

Definitely skipping the fried grasshoppers snack.

Me really happy not to be eating grasshoppers.

Candy, no thanks.

Pork rinds, that’s a hard no.

Mango and melon actually sounded good. But not sure how clean the knife and water to wash it was. So pass .

really not sure what it, only that we didn’t want it.

And then finally no vendors. The vendors did not do a hard sell. A simple no gracias got them to keep walking. The water was really nice too. Warm and no waves.

After the museum on Saturday, Jeff and I went to a famous sorbet place.

It’s been around for over 100 years ago it must be good.

There were so many fruits common like strawberry but also exotic like guanabana, but elote caught my eye. Because what could be better than corn sorbet? Turns out a lot.

Jeff got a mango which tasted amazing. Mine came with actual corn kernels in it. The first few bites were great. The top photo shows my delight in having something that tastes like frozen corn. But, after half of it I wondered if I even like corn.

Jeff was nice enough to share the rest of his mango. And I understand why Ben and Jerry’s doesn’t have Corn on the Cob ice cream.

On Saturday we went to the Anthropology museum. It’s in a revamped palace so the building was as interesting on the outside as inside.

Inside there were Mayan artifacts. It was interesting to see items from 1000 ad in a building from the 1700’s.

The statues were giving me the side eye as usual.

They all look mildly pissed.

Whatever this one is offering, I do not want.

Some of the details of the palace were a bit disturbing. Imagine facing this guy on your way up to bed each night.

This was on the front of the building. What the heck was wrong with this guy?

Sven and Sergio thought my new purchases were for them. Sven tried to spin around on the salad spinner. When I explained what it was they still thought it was for them. They felt their leaf dinners have been sort of wet, so are glad I can spin them dry.

They really got excited fit the drying rack. They refuse to believe it’s not a sloth jungle gym.

It’s,starting to cool down enough at night to walk. It’s still hot, just not unbearably hot at night.

Not much else going on. We are settling into our new apartment and have discovered Mexican Amazon. So far we’ve bought 2 things I’m very excited for. A drying rack and a salad spinner.

I’ve gotten it into my head that juicing should be my new hobby. We have a juicer in our Seattle storage locker that we rarely used. So why not buy another one? The great thing about juicers is you can get them cheap second hand. That’s how we got ours in Seattle as well. We found one here and jumped in an Uber.

Here’s Jeff already regretting his purchase. The woman we bought it from we’re pretty sure was not into juicing. Her house was very basic, 3 rooms. Hammocks instead of beds, no AC. She explained that it had been her son’s. She didn’t even know how it worked.

No one seems to know how they work. There are so many videos. It took us repeated viewings of three different ones to even put it together.

And then we remembered why we didn’t juice much in Seattle. It’s a mess.

But healthy and delicious.

Too bad I broke the sink while cleaning up. I tried really hard to not have anything go down the drain. We do not have a garage disposal. But, a lot must have gone down the drain.

On Saturday night we went to Costco to get a membership. You might think the above photo is Jeff at a cenote at night. And you are right. There is a cenote in the Costco parking lot. You can no longer go in it which is probably good. Its hard enough leaving Costco with all kinds of groceries. If you then felt like you should also take a swim in a cenote it would be too much.

It’s small but looks pretty nice.

Costco seems like the thing to do on a Saturday night here. This is the line just to get a membership. The store was packed. It would have been a 90 minute wait. We’ll come back another time when it’s less busy.

We are back in an Airbnb that we were in a few months ago. It’s not fancy but the bed is good, 2 bathrooms and a good balcony with shade. It also comes with 2 fans. If I position them right I can sit outside and pretend it’s not 100 degrees outside.

This mug is new since we were here last. It is perfect for me.

This mug is also new. It seems like a nad fortune cookie. Jeff is using it more for size then saying.

On Friday we took the airport shuttle back to the Cancun airport to catch our bus to Merida.

Before boarding, we stopped for lunch in the airport and Jeff got a beer. Jeff is not a beer drinker and especially not at lunch. So I was intrigued. He said he was drinking it because it was 100 degrees out, he was hot and didn’t want water or Soda. Wolfgang Puck who was on the advertisement behind him seem to ton of was a good idea.

The bus has a lot of classes. Usually we take first or second class but this was the only one at the time at place so we took 3rd class. It was fine more like the leg room of coach on a flight and no free water. It was pretty empty so we easy had our own row of seats.

On Thursday we flew back to Cancun. We had a great time in Chicagoland visiting, but after a week we were tired.

The flight was good. We didn’t get upgraded to the exit but it was fine.

The Cancun airport was crazy. We had an airport shuttle, but there is a huge group of taxi drivers standing behind the barricade.

I guess we were missing Burger King because we both became obsessed with the idea of a whopper. And I will say they were delicious.