"is that REAL grass?" --teagan aguiñaga, quote book entry

This weekend was long and tiring.  And this morning I'm super tired because Brandi barked at stuff a lot last night.  Quick summary.  Weekend was a lot of fun.  The book I'm reading still sucks.  My host mom still keeps to herself, and so I enjoy spending a lot of time outside of the house, and when I'm in the house--inside my room.  I understand Rome wasn't built in a day, and that I'm probably not going to leave with fun stories from the host home like most of my friends from school, but sheesh.  My Central College friends are making connections and yada yada yada.  The awkwardness better die soon.

Anyways, the Central College trip to Celestún was a lot of fun.  We took an air-conditioned bus, and stopped in a small market place on the way there.  In Celestún, we saw flamingos, iguanas, various other birds, tons of fish, and even termites.  At our beach-front restaurant, we dined on octopus soup and grilled fish.  And of course, we laid out in the sun.

Then 2/3 of our group (aka 10 people) took taxis to the bus station, and took a 4-hour bus ride to Cancun!  Long story short, it also took 2 more buses, and a lot of walking to get to our hotel.  By the time we got there, the only place open for food was Domino's.  Guess who got nominated to call the pizza guy.  The first thing I asked was "¿Hablas ingles?"  He said, yes, then proceeded to speak in Spanish.  I don't have any clue what homeboy was saying, but it took me forever to figure out that he was asking me, "Where are you calling from?"  Then actually ordering the pizza was an ordeal because we needed 2 large cheese pizzas, 1 large pepperoni pizza, and 1 personal pan-thin crust-no cheese-with ham pizza (Mindy is allergic to just about everything).  Oh, and after that phone call I need to put more pesos on my phone because I can't send any texts or make any calls.  Classic.

With the arrival  said and done, we enjoyed the rest of our weekend at the pool, beach, and night life.  We met some interesting characters (orange shorts, yellow shorts, the man on the boat, the most attentive waiter in the entire world...) and some not so interesting characters (frat boy at club, first Cancun bus driver, Mexican bus riders leading us in the wrong direction...)

Also, we the Cancun travelers have started a quote book to bring back to the rest of the Central College students.  Now we can look back and laugh at all the stupid sounding stuff that comes out of people's mouths sometimes. 

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