We started out the day Saturday with more typical Mexican occurances. Ivonne told us he couldn`t come any more the night before because he had to take pictures at confirmation, which has been planned for a long time and he was one of the main planners. He even bought all the food Friday. Then Pool, the person who`s birthday we were celebrating-so we were all going to a water park for him-backed out. Caro: "So we`re all celebrating Pool`s birthday without Pool?" But the 9 of us set off.
We watched the sunrise as we drove.
More interesting things to note about Mexican driving:
-it is a law to wear your seatbelt, but from what I`ve observed no one does and they notice if you do and generally ask about it
-there is a red line in places in case your brakes go out and you are supposed to follow it and it ends off the road in dirt
-there are tolls that are quite pricey we went about 2 hours away and paid 3 tolls ($5.30, $3, $3)
-no need for google map directions (or at least they`re not generally used) you know the general direction you`re going and follow the signs (the highways weren`t quite as complicated) they had no problem asking for directions off the street though. We`d pull over and usually it was Christobel "Hola amiga..." always amiga even though we`ve never seen them before in our life
We arrived in Ixtapan on a nice, but quite cloudy day.
We ate breakfast before entering the waterpark. Apparently it`s typical to make coffee in brown sugar and then drain it or something, which isn`t super enjoyable to someone who likes their coffee black, but it`s still nice to try it the way the locals do.
We entered the park basically when it opened around 9 and hopped in the natural spring water. Honestly when I first saw it I was a little hesitant because it was very brown, but it was so warm and felt so nice.
Then we headed to the outside to hit up the slides. It definitely had a chill in the air and the clouds covering up the sun didn`t help me to warm up. And my lip turned blue which drew a lot of attention from our group, but I wasn`t going to let a few clouds stop me.
(The sun came out later pretty hard core)
Melissa and I felt a little awkward at first in our 2 piece swim suits, but that`s all we had so we walked from ride to ride wrapped in a towel. Actually even most the men put on their t-shirts to walk from ride to ride.
We started on the slides and were having a great time with no lines. I started talking about this and our Mexican friends said Sundays are really busy there, which at first I thought was strange, but I guess most people here work Saturdays.
The scenery was beautiful! The rides weren`t piled on top of each other, they were quite spread out. There was a lake with ducks and fish. It was so nice to see nature again since we don`t see much of it in Santa Fe.
They had a wave pool and everything...basically all the things you can think of in a waterpark. I especially enjoyed teaching the boys some yoga in the shallow part of the wave pool.
We brought our lunch (which they gave us no problem carrying right through the entrance and storing all day). It was pretty typical mexican:
-bread loaves where the inside is peeled out (we fed theirs to the ducks) and the heel is rarely eaten (my favorite part)
-beans
-ham (none for me please)
-chipotle
-cheese
-tomatoes
-avacodes
-onions
-lettuce
-manoyse
So everything was set out and you could pick what you wanted for your sandwich.
We ended up closing down the park and watching the sun set on our way home.
We watched the sunrise as we drove.
More interesting things to note about Mexican driving:
-it is a law to wear your seatbelt, but from what I`ve observed no one does and they notice if you do and generally ask about it
-there is a red line in places in case your brakes go out and you are supposed to follow it and it ends off the road in dirt
-there are tolls that are quite pricey we went about 2 hours away and paid 3 tolls ($5.30, $3, $3)
-no need for google map directions (or at least they`re not generally used) you know the general direction you`re going and follow the signs (the highways weren`t quite as complicated) they had no problem asking for directions off the street though. We`d pull over and usually it was Christobel "Hola amiga..." always amiga even though we`ve never seen them before in our life
We arrived in Ixtapan on a nice, but quite cloudy day.
We ate breakfast before entering the waterpark. Apparently it`s typical to make coffee in brown sugar and then drain it or something, which isn`t super enjoyable to someone who likes their coffee black, but it`s still nice to try it the way the locals do.
We entered the park basically when it opened around 9 and hopped in the natural spring water. Honestly when I first saw it I was a little hesitant because it was very brown, but it was so warm and felt so nice.
Then we headed to the outside to hit up the slides. It definitely had a chill in the air and the clouds covering up the sun didn`t help me to warm up. And my lip turned blue which drew a lot of attention from our group, but I wasn`t going to let a few clouds stop me.
(The sun came out later pretty hard core)
Melissa and I felt a little awkward at first in our 2 piece swim suits, but that`s all we had so we walked from ride to ride wrapped in a towel. Actually even most the men put on their t-shirts to walk from ride to ride.
We started on the slides and were having a great time with no lines. I started talking about this and our Mexican friends said Sundays are really busy there, which at first I thought was strange, but I guess most people here work Saturdays.
The scenery was beautiful! The rides weren`t piled on top of each other, they were quite spread out. There was a lake with ducks and fish. It was so nice to see nature again since we don`t see much of it in Santa Fe.
They had a wave pool and everything...basically all the things you can think of in a waterpark. I especially enjoyed teaching the boys some yoga in the shallow part of the wave pool.
We brought our lunch (which they gave us no problem carrying right through the entrance and storing all day). It was pretty typical mexican:
-bread loaves where the inside is peeled out (we fed theirs to the ducks) and the heel is rarely eaten (my favorite part)
-beans
-ham (none for me please)
-chipotle
-cheese
-tomatoes
-avacodes
-onions
-lettuce
-manoyse
So everything was set out and you could pick what you wanted for your sandwich.
We ended up closing down the park and watching the sun set on our way home.
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