Cozumel Day 2 - The Wedding
Saturday November 17, 2007
8:45 am: The day dawns voluntarily early when you pass out dead asleep before midnight.
9:00 am: We make our way down to the “Included breakfast buffet”. The spread is nice including an egg, pancake, and French toast station. There are various and sundry different types of Mexican breakfast treats. I stick with all you can eat bacon because, let’s be honest, where do you go wrong with all you can eat bacon?
9:15 am: Various members of our traveling party are making their way down to breakfast looking none the worse for wear. The human body can be amazingly recuperative when there’s drinking to be done.
10:30 am: I head back up to my room to switch into my bathing suit and lather my pasty whiteness with SPF 30… which turns out to not mean much because I find a delightful little place under a giant tiki umbrella. Me and Harry Potter get down to business.
OK, so yes, I’m in the middle of reading Harry Potter. I just finished book five. I started reading this because I figured it was time to see what all the hype was about… and considering my love of all things fantasy, it was time. Early reviews: a pretty decently layered story that is an easy read and obviously written for people a lot younger than me. Fun story, the first three books are relatively small. 300ish pages. Since I was going to be in Mexico for a week, I decided I should probably bring two with me. I walked in to the library to discover that book four was 750 pages long and book five was 850 pages long. I was surprised they didn’t force me to check the weapons at customs.
11:05 am: It’s noon in my time zone. Sol time.
11:06 am: My favorite thing about Cozumel. “Room 206, keep it open.” Double bonus: the room’s on the girl’s card.
11:45 am: One of the random waiter/busboys/bartenders come over to me to fetch my empty and bring me a new one. Good Lord, I could die here.
12:00 pm: Time to jump in the ocean… just cuz. Fun sub-plot of this jump into the ocean: I forgot to take Ms. L’s cell phone out of my bathing suit pocket… which has turned my Blackberry into the Ms. L sister conference center.
2:00 pm: The wedding is at 4 pm, so obviously it’s time to start getting ready.
2:05 pm: Ms. L starts getting ready.
3:50 pm: I start getting ready.
4:00 pm: The groom’s got on a cotton suit and a pair of flip-flops… points for style. In “firsts at a ceremony”, this wedding gets props as “first wedding on a beach near sunset” and “first wedding with open containers amongst the gallery”.
4:30 pm: Ceremony over. Not the most efficient ever, but it will do.
4:35 pm: It doesn’t take long to get to cocktail hour since the altar was set up right next to the tiki bar.
6:00 pm: The reception kicks off.
6:05 pm: The tequila shots start. Gonna be a long night.
For the sake of “What happens in Mexico stays in Mexico”, the events of the next five hours will be redacted for the protection of all involved. Suffice it to say a full moon has never looked quite so bright as it is reflected off the ocean and white sand. Suffice it also to say there was more than enough white-guy shuffle going on. Although, props to the one guy whose name I already forgot who, disturbingly, knew all the choreography to Beat It.
Coming up tomorrow: The Snorkling Booze Cruise