Finally we got to try the beach of Playacar Phase I, close to home, unknown to the general public and deserted even on Sunday. They have a little beach club where they let you take your own food as long as you also order drink from there. Too bad on Sunday the cook did not show up and we did not have that much food! We find a Mexican way out of starvation, the waiter called the restaurant of the time share houses (Fisherman’s: our first encounter with Time Share sharks) near by that provided the required calories for our little group. On the beach there are mango tree (I think it is mango) where the kids had a lot of fun and we felt less guilty to let them under the sun in the middle of the day.
I little geo-social history of Playacar: they build Playacar Phase I attached to Playa del Carmen as an exclusive residential area with beautiful villas overlooking the beach. Well it is at least great for the villas right on the beach, the one on the back have no panorama been the terrain very flat. Later they developed Phase II, attached to Phase I, built around a golf course. There are villas, apartments, row houses (like ours), for residents and tourists. The hotels are by the beach and the residents of Phase II have free access to the beach and the facilities of the hotels.
So the beach club of Phase I was initially for the residents of the Sunset Fisherman Time Share. Not having enough business with them they open up the place to people from outside (but no one knows… and we are not about to tell!).
November 12, 2006
First we had a week busy with a failed adoption of a baby cat. A little kitten than we discovered 3 weeks old that become for 5 days 9and nights) part of our household. She was cute, determined and very vocal. I took her to the vet, we bought milk, bottle and all the paraphernalia and then the mother come and claim her! I was not home but Alain open the front door and the mother heard her baby calling she come pick her up and took her. This “overprotective mother”! Ah!
We were sad to see her go, our Benny and especially Isa could not believe that finally they had possession of the house again, she did not like the arrival of the intruder….
We went through our first Halloween in Mexico full of American flavor. We went trick and threat in the residential neighborhood in Playacar, Matthias as a Knight and Oscar has a Pirate, even if he kept on saying that he was Oscar and not a pirate!
In Xcaret the eco-park close by home they were organizing a free cultural event about the day of the dead tradition. They were people dressed up as dead people, crafts, food and shows. Well we were pretty exhausted.
The first week of November was a pretty rainy week and the “nonni” arrived. The indoor activities are limited at the movie and indoor playground activities.
On Saturday finally we made it to Tulum, the archeological site is in a beautiful spot overlooking the cost but we had such a different memory of that visit. The place was a lot more organized, but we got there with the tourists and most of that archeological construction could not be climbed. We did not even swim at the beach down the there, way too many tourists! So we went to Playa Paraiso that really deserve its name! Splendid beach with coconut tree and a fancy beach club.
