AVENTURA SPA PALACE
PLAYA DEL CARMEN
QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO
NOVEMBER 26-30, 2003
FRIDAY

 We found the best palapa and set up shop early, and then walked over to the buffet for breakfast--made-to-order omelettes and a huge assortment of different foods, hot and cold. Carol took a bus to the North Lobby (it's too far to walk between the two lobbies) and had a pedicure and manicure. Lunch at the snack bar, sitting in beach chairs. I've decided that the best drink is a frozen daiquiri. My next goal is to keep my scrotum inside my bathing suit and to walk. The hot tub reminds me of my polio youth, when FDR and I shared the baths at Hot Springs. Between Carol's support and encouragement and attentiveness and a constant infusion of frozen daiquiris, I am managing to enjoy muself, putting off the inevitible (whatever that is) until we return.

After another Jacuzzi and nap, we took a bus to the North Lobby and ate in a beautiful and relaxing Oriental restaurant with lousy sushi, but excellent mushroom soup, marinated raw thin-sliced flank steak, and good Shanghai filet of grouper. We skipped the evening strip-tease show and went to bed.

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