Tony was feeling much better and did some diving this morning. He saw some lobsters, barracuda, large shoals of fishes, sting rays and a 5ft shark. Tony managed to get a video done of his diving which was really cool. Li lounged around in the sun while Tony was diving.

Got back to the room and found an elephant made out of towels from the maid (she has been leaving quite a few designs over the last few days such as a dinosaur, Buddha and a rabbit).

After lunch we both chilled out by the pool and sunbathed. The sun was ever so hot and we found shelter in a canopy sun bed on the beach; fell asleep!

Watched the local hotel show after dinner which was Latino Caribbean dancing, then we had a few games of pool.

Afters, Tony decided to mince on the swings out by the beach.

We got back to the hotel from Coco Bongo about 3am and Li wasn’t feeling too good (nor Tony earlier); we think the local water (as we had lots of ice in our drinks over the last several days) might be too blame as she was up till 6.30am.

Both of us didn’t sleep much, stomach cramps came on. Li spent the whole day in bed, Tony was up around Midday but still was ill & sat organising our Belize trip on the internet. It looks like its going to be a 10 hours journey on bus to Belize City, starting at 6am on Friday morning….Not fun!

We took a lesson in how to sail a Hobie (small Catamaran) in the morning and had a little sail in the area. Afterwards we watched the hotel pool activities and participated in a few; Li won a Coco Bongo T-shirt (of one of the local clubs)

After lunch, we both tried some snorkelling in the shallow waters and Li learnt how to snorkel. We had dinner in Bella Vista (Seafood restaurant) in the hotel and went on to the Coco Bongo club (organised by the hotel).

Coco Bongo is a night club with live acts and shows; we thought it was excellent and the shows were spectacular. There were many impersonators such as Christina Aguilara, Madonna, Elvis Presley, Guns N’ Roses and Michael Jackson. There were also acts were scenes from films like Spiderman, Christ and The Matrix where the film part is projected on the large screens with acrobatic moves from the actors on the floor or suspended in air.

Throughout the whole show – balloons, paper leaves and party decoration were let out from the ceiling on to all the people. Got to bed after a few more drinks back at the hotel around 3:30am

Got up early to go to Chichen Itza; the famous Maya buildings and one of the 7 new wonders of the world. It was a 2.5 hours drive to the place and it was scorching hot (91F) when we got there, thankfully we both had hats and plenty of sun cream.

It was interesting to learn about the Maya people and their amazing mathematical and astronomy abilities. Most of the key buildings were designed around the summer and winter equinox so that on these specific days shadows were cast on the buildings to produce symbolic images, for example a snake coming down the steps of a building. The Maya people, bearing in mind it was around 400AD, also had a calendar that was more accurate than our current Georgian calendar (by 12 seconds each year)
Next was on to a sink hole in which you could swim, quite cold in the water but we both got in. Li even managed to do a few strokes, which, give it was 15 feet deep and she hates water, was very brave.

A quick (and late) buffet lunch finished of the day. Another 3 hours home back to the hotel was followed by some welcome Margarita’s and dinner.

Woke up very late, it seems like our bodies just needed a good night sleep. Managed to get some pesos; though it seems everyone prefers US dollars (better rate for them). We also noticed; no-one has any change as the cash machine only gave out big notes and hardly anyone could change them so we couldn’t even get a bottle of water.

We’re staying in the so called “Hotel Zone” in Cancun, but we found out from the guide books that downtown Cancun is 50% cheaper for tourist stuff. So, off we went off to Market 28 (downtown)…. the whole place was full of tourist junk; however, we did pick up a couple T-shirts for Tony and a nice beach bag for Li.

Had a lovely seafood dinner at the hotel and went to see the show put on which was a strip dance which wasn’t very good.

We spent the whole day relaxing on the beach enjoying the hotel activities by the pool and Li participated in some beach volleyball. The weather was about 81F; hot enough to just do nothing.

Had Tex-Mex for dinner and the evening show at the hotel was a cabaret show which had some impressive dancers.

We went down for breakfast and it was ever so nice to have a nice cup of tea; it seemed so long since we had tea since leaving home. We also managed to get some bacon, eggs, hash brown and sausages (almost an English Breakfast).

Wondered around the resort and booked a few activities for the next few days. The weather started with a little overcast but soon brightened up and was very hot, we both topped up on our sunblock and did some relaxing. There is a bar in the middle of a pool which is great to prop yourself up against whilst cooling down from the sun.

Very early start and headed back to Miami airport (about 4 hours drive), it was lovely and cool for travelling. We returned the rental car and managed to get away with where the black vultures have pulled the soft rubber off the roof (from our trip to the Everglades).

Both feeling very tired and exhausted from travelling, we arrived late afternoon in our hotel (Temptation Resort Spa in Cancun). It’s an all inclusive hotel and we have a lovely ocean view from our room. Time zone is also an hour behind Florida.

Both woke up late with hangovers but managed to get out for our last day in Key West. We went on the Conch train tour which was toured most of the old town.

Afterwards, we continued to wonder around and took more photos at Mallory square, where we also had dinner watching the sunset.

Got up early for big game fishing, had to be there for 7.30am! There were 6 of us fishing onboard and Li was the only girl. It was all set up with bait on the lines for us, we took it in turns to reel in the catch when the bait was taken. Li caught a large barracuda (Tony helped her to reel it in) and Tony caught something smaller than the bait we were using. We were both sick; water was choppy as can be.

We went back to the hotel and slept as we both were exhausted; later we went out for some food and drink. We drank in Fogerty’s which is a really nice restaurant/bar; then proceeded on to a couple more bars and got extremely tipsy.