We woke up at 3:45am to catch out 6:55 flight out of JFK. I was concerned that early wake up call would make for whiny kids later on but these kids are old enough and traveled enough now to tough it out! It's an hour ride to JFK so we listened to the
book a Wrinkle In Time on audio on the way. It's awesome! It was a rainy drive but not too many cars on the road at that time (another reason I chose that flight) and we made it to the airport and thru security in a timely fashion. We grabbed
some breakfast to go, walked up to the gate and immediately boarded. Talk about good timing!
I always fly JetBlue when possible - the leg room is spacious, each seat has a tv and always FREE wifi. It makes such a difference when flying with kids! We landed at 9:30 Mexico time giving us the entire day to explore. I arranged a private transport
service to drive us to the resort - only $40 for the four of us and the driver was awesome!!
The resort, Finest Playa Mujeres, is north of the city - very tranquil and well built - exclusive feel to it compared to the last resort we stayed at. As it was so early in the day, our room wasn't available yet, so we stashed the luggage and went
exploring.
First stop early lunch! We were hungry! We all loaded up on seafood, except Ben - pizza and rice! Ha!
After lunch the kiddos popped on their suits and took a dip while we waiting for our room to be available. All Ben could say was the pool has an AquaBar that you swim right up to and get drinks!! (Kids got ghastly sugar syrup smoothies and of course were
thrilled!)
We got word our room was ready so headed there to unpack! Daddy surprised us with a room upgrade - we had our own private pool and jacuzzi!! It didn't take the kids long to test the pool out - woohoo!!
After unpacking, we headed to the beach to test out the ocean with our new snorkels courtesy of Gramma Lou in the beautiful blue water. It was windy so the water was a bit churned up and cloudy, but it still made for great swimming and playing on
the resort raft!
Nothing stopping us yet, we headed to the kid's zone around 3:30 to check it out. Water slides and pool tables and ping pong and air hockey - kept us busy until dinner!
We were starting to get hungry for dinner but wanted to test out our private jacuzzi first!
It was awesome and the perfect segway into our evening. We got showered up, dressed up (I didn't get pictures!!! Ugh!) and went for dinner to the Japanese restaurant. It was delicious Ben ate lamb yakitori and Emma had pork pad Thai. We all shared some
sushi but the winner was a ginger seared ahi that we ordered seconds of!
We left the Japanese place and Daddy decided we should hit the seafood place because, you know SECOND DINNER!! He had lobster, Ben at shrimp, I had scallops and Emma had a pork burrito! (So much for seafood!) It hit the spot, and put us all in a serious
food coma. We were all asleep by 8pm and didn't wake up until 7am.
That's what I call a perfect start to VACATION!!❤️
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