They had rented a beautiful beach villa with a pool and lots of amenities! Since Dr. Tinley's daughter, Sophia, and Krish are good friends, we hung out with Tinleys at their beach villa a few times during our break. The kids had fun combing the beach for hermit crabs and splashing in the waves, playing ping pong and Monopoly in the game room, lounging in the hammocks, and simply playing together. One of our days there, we took Sophia with us on a submarine tour. The kids had a blast!
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| Pool view at their villa! |
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| Arjun was just loving the hot tub and his coconut water since the pool was too cold! |
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| Sunset playing on the beach! |
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| Sophia and Krish loving that fresh, island coconut water! |
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| That view! |
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| Beautiful sunset! |
Our first full day in Cozumel, we took the ferry across to Playa del Carmen to explore it's beach and a sister resort, PlayaCar Palace. It was a very windy day on the beach. Our favorite part of the adventure was actually listening to a local band, the UFO Vans, perform on our ferry ride there! The boys loved the band and we even bought their CD to listen to back home in Texas. It is still the preferred choice of music in our car! This is definitely one of my favorite things to do on vacation - enjoy the local music and bring it home with us! I brought back some Caribbean calypso music back when we visited the Caribbean when I was younger. We enjoyed that CD for quite some time as well!
When the Tinleys went back to Texas, we booked another favorite island adventure - a dune buggy ride around the island! After we did this in Punta Cana, we were hooked! It was so thrilling and different from our typical snorkeling excursions. The dune buggies in Cozumel weren't the typical dune buggies though; they were more like convertibles. Nonetheless, we had a great time driving around the entire coast of Cozumel and stopping at various tourist locations to explore!
Another fun excursion we booked was a snorkel tour! The boys have been snorkeling so many times now I think they're becoming experts!
Back at our resort...
The boys had a blast in the kids' club with the play kitchen, train table, Disney movies and the Wii!
On our last day in Cozumel, we tried a brand new activity. We went on a family tour of a chocolate making factory and got to make chocolate using a mill from the cacao beans themselves! It was an awesome experience I know the boys valued just as much as we did! Krish loves chocolate and we know Chef Arjun loves cooking and working with various appliances in the kitchen! The cacao mill was no less exciting to him!
