Our Trip to Mexico

Cory, Grant and I had a wonderful trip to Mexico to celebrate the wedding of Cory's brother, Andy, and his fiance, Heather. Grant was very excited from the start. He loved the plane ride, and always wanted to be in the window seat. One of the pilots even let him sit in his seat, and wear his hat.
After an hour-and-a-half shuttle ride, we arrived at our resort, Barcelo. We were greeted with fancy drinks (even Grant had a special one), found our room, put on our suits, and found the rest of our group soaking in the sun on the beach. Grant wasted no time, and jumped right in the ocean. Heather gave him a floaty ring, which he loved and spent a lot of time in riding the waves over the weekend. We enjoyed a Mexican buffet the first evening, and then went to watch the nightly show put on by the resort. This one was called Fantasia, and the performers were acting out scenes from Disney movies. It was a bit cheesy, but Grant enjoyed it. He was getting tired, and the music was a little too loud for his ears so we left early.
We woke the next morning, indulged in a yummy breakfast buffet, and headed to the beach. We enjoyed a nice morning relaxing with Cory's older brother and his wife. Grant went back and forth from the beach to the water playground, as well as snorkeling with Cory. We made him, very reluctantly, stop for lunch and go to our room to get ready for the wedding. Cory was a groomsman and Grant was the ring bearer. The weather was great and the ceremony was nice. Later that night, there was a reception where Grant showed off his awesome dancing skills. Everyone was very impressed!
The next day we had a full day of doing nothing. We enjoyed playing beach volleyball, tossing a rugby beach ball in the ocean, laying around, eating (once again, Grant was not happy about having to leave the water), and watching Grant play with newly made friends. My sister-in-law and I had a massage on the beach (very relaxing, even with the sounds of a bingo game going on somewhere in the background) while Cory and Grant went snorkeling again. I heard they saw a stingray, lots of cool fish, and pretty coral. We had dinner that night at the resort's seafood restaurant. Grant had fish fingers, and Cory and I had lobster. By this point, Grant was very tired, and was almost in tears because he said he missed his sisters. We went back to our room and started getting ready for our departure the next day. The next morning I got up early and went and took pictures of the sunrise. It doesn't get much more amazing then a sunrise on the beach. After I got back to the room, Cory took his walk on the beach for one last time while we let Grant sleep in a little. We finished our packing, went to have breakfast and said good-bye to family and friends, as we were all leaving around the same time. We took our hour-and-a-half shuttle ride back the airport, did a little more shopping, and boarded the plane. What a great trip! I made an album with some pictures from the trip which you can view at the link below.


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