Second Monday

There is a lot of joy in getting to Sunday evening and knowing you still have three full days here.  Aldi - the guy that tends the chaises, pool, etc. who is a very sweet young man and helps with anything we need - said yesterday 'so it's your last day'...and I gleefully said 'no, we're here until Thursday!'.  Yeah us!

The weather has been a lot different this time.  The mornings are clear, sunny and beautiful.  We get up and eat breakfast, linger over coffee and then head down to the beach.  Usually, there are thick, black clouds over Cozumel - we watch the lightening and hear the thunder while soaking up the sun on our beach.  At some point, the wind picks up and the water starts to have more white caps - and that's our signal that rain is imminent and we head inside.  We shower, eat lunch and then cocoon inside until the rain passes - sometimes sitting outside on the patio watching 'the show'.  It's wild.  Yesterday there was such HUGE thunder so close to us, the sliding doors were shaking.  You could feel the building shake.  The break between lightening and huge thunder was milliseconds - crazy!

J. rode a wave runner (Jetski) yesterday and enjoyed it.  I thought he would be able to stop and pick me up but they wouldn't let him come near enough to shore.  Safety first is always the best thing.  We may ride together sometime in the next couple days.

Last night, we enjoyed a fabulous dinner at The Blue Lobster - our first visit there ever.  I had the most delicious lobster and filet - every bite was melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness.  Loved it and can't wait to go back.

We decided against going to Xcaret - at our core, we are both just homebodies and have just as much 'fun' sitting on the patio together or being on the beach together.  Why spend money to visit an 'amusement park'?  So we stayed 'home'.

J. has me walking with him most days - not anywhere close to the mileage he does at home during the week but at least he's helping me get up and moving.  We walked to Walmart yesterday - a mile round trip - and that was in very high heat and high humidity, carrying grocery bags of stuff back too.

I have re-read the first two Harry Potter books and am into the third.  It's fun to leisurely read - it's one of my favorite things to do on vacation.

The boys are doing OK as far as we know.  H. called yesterday asking if he could 'save' the WinCo gift card for me and then I could give him another amount of $ to use going out with his friends.  I said 'no'.  He said 'but we want to do [insert a long list of things that cost money to do]' and I said 'but you apparently don't have enough money to do those things, so I think you will be telling your friends you can't.

It didn't go over well.  It never does.

I dread being back home with all the 'drama' surrounding him at the moment.  He needs $ 'cuz he spends money - and he has no job.  And while we have been having him do projects large and small around the house and paying him for his work, we can't keep doing that.  We don't have the budget for $100's of dollars a month in 'projects'.

He doesn't know what he wants to do - can't find a steady job.  It's frustrating for us all.

Still having a blast in paradise.  J. is arriving back soon with Japanese take out.  We planned for Thai but forgot that Babe's Noodle House is closed on Mondays.  Drat!

We will eat there tomorrow!!