This was one of the quietest days of the trip. We got up and decided to have breakfast at McDonalds, and it was fun to order something familiar but different. Then we went back and sat by the pool... the only problem was that it started raining shortly after we got out of the pool. We went inside and talked to the concierge about taking the bus into Cancun and by the time we were done talking to him, it had stopped raining and we went back out for a few hours. I had to sit there like a grandmother and her quilt over her legs to keep from getting my legs burned, but it was nice. The overcast sky and breeze made for a nice break from the relentless sun.
That afternoon, we decided to pay for internet for a half-hour and we updated our blogs. Just doing this almost took the whole half hour as the internet there is incredibly slow, even though it is not dial-up. After that we decided to hop the bus and ride up the strip to find a new place for dinner. We got out close to the Hard Rock Cafe, and looked around for a non-chain restaurant. We really couldn't find anything we wanted. In fact the area had more boarded up places than open ones. After having a couple of scoops of Haagen-Dazs, we just headed back and ate at the seaside cafe at our hotel. We could see some clouds in the distance and the manager of the restaurant told us that the unusal cloud formation was actually Hurricane Ike. Beautiful, but a sobering sight.
After dinner the hotel held an interesting event... releasing 117 baby sea turtles into the sea. We got to actually take about 5 of them ourselves. They are incredibly small, fitting easily in the palm of one's hand. We would set them on the shores and watch them walk out into the waves, washing away and starting their lives in the ocean. It was a really beautiful moment, with the destructive clouds of Ike in the distance watching these new little turtles start their lives. THe power of life and death in the waves.
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