Our Mexico vacay started in Toronto for Park Sleep and Fly. Logan was happy as can be because he had full use of his "little puter" with wifi to watch his "little thomas" youtube videos of people playing trains (this is an obsession) and Leah happy as can be because well... it's Leah.
The half second he looked up from the screen. He had no idea that the next 8 days would be totally screen-free.... 3 year old bubble popped. Leah just loving life as per usual.
We are no stranger to hotel carpet picnics. The first festive special of the season for this one. And this is where Logan's pizza obsession starts (also swiss chalet has pizza).
After we missed our 7am shuttle and the driver said he'd come back in 15 minutes just to not come back, we left for the airport about 50 minutes behind schedule! But still got there with lots of time to get through customs (they are so accommodating with kids!) and have a $7 grape snack. Our flight was a 10:15am.
All was super smooth with the flight. The big one watched little puter and was happy as can be and little one slept for 3 hours.
When we arrived in Cancun, it was pretty easy to find the sunwing shuttle to our resort and not only did we score airport cerveza, but they also made a pit stop (for literally 0.5 seconds) and got us extra dos equis for the drive! It was about 45 minutes on the shuttle and Logan slept for it.
And once we got to our resort - Grand Princess (at the family part!) Logan woke up and had a full hour and a half meltdown. It was intense with none of his comforts around him so it took him forever to calm. We were able to talk him into the ice cream parlour so this was our first stop at the resort.
After that we made our first and last supper stop at the pirate buffet right at the family club but the selection was minimal so we went to the main resort buffet after that. That night our whole room was in bed by 9.
Logan doing what he loves best... playing trains. Vacationing in Mexico is no different! His favourite was playing with them outside on the balcony.
There was a splash pad with a pirate ship, slides and mushroom/tree waterfalls. Logan loved these this first day. He brought in his little beach toys that the hotel provided to us! He had such a good time this first day going down the slides and jumping in the water!
Leah slept the whole time (probably 2 hours) in a shady spot we found for her and when she woke up we were ready to go so I dipped her toes in to cool her off!
And we went for a walk to explore. We met some friends along this path...
Friend iguanas and kitties!! There were so many cats and also coaties which were basically a racoon/squirrel hybrid. They were cute but garbage eaters.
That is not back sweat for the record... it's water from my bathing suit! Seriously looks like back sweat.
We walked pretty much all the way to the beach but we didn't know how much further it was (little did we know we were 2 min away) so we stopped to eat and cool off at the other buffet by the resort pool.
pico de gallo and guac at every meal!! And Logan basically lived off breakfast where he could have pb and j and watermelon.
Logan had a little nap in the stroller on the way back and so we stopped to as Logan calls it "hang out" with mojitos! There were nice little seating "villas" out in the atrium of the resort that were perfect for it.
One small baby, one big king bed. After the first day we were upgraded to the room with the king bed and bunk beds because I had thought that was the room we were getting and we were firstly put in a room with 2 double beds and a pull out sofa. They changed our room but we stayed 1 night in the other room.
Monday night was the first and only show that we saw... Moana! Logan was so tired we didnt quite make the whole thing but he did like when the people from the show would run up and down the aisles.
We decided after this show that the 830/9pm shows were a little late for the kids so after that we put the kids to bed at 8pm instead and had drinks on the balcony each night!
Tuesday morning. We went for breakfast where the balloon man made Logan a sword and then waited for the shuttle to the beach around 930! Here's the shuttle stop.
Matching tequila party hats.
We got to the beach around 10 and by then so many of the spots with the shade were already taken! So we pulled up some chairs to a spot right by the bar... always a good idea.
Playing in the sand with his toys from the hotel. The game of the vacation was "buried treasure".
Pretty beach... huge undertow.
And after the beach and lunch, we went down to the pool for a swim with our turtle friend. He got a hole in him immediately so this was the only swim we got with him!
The family pool was pretty narrow and consisted mostly of the bottom of peoples swim up rooms... but we didnt need much space anyway!
We have so few family pictures from this vacation... we should have asked people to take our picture more!
And Tuesday after our swim we got our dresses and dress shirt on for a "fancy" supper. We were given reservations to the restaurants on the resort but we knew we'd be disappointed with having to rush out/having a squirmy baby and antsy 3 year old so we made the informed decision to stick to buffets where we impressively could be in and out drinks included in 15 minutes.
Wednesday morning started with breakfast at the buffet and this fancy diaper change to follow.
We then scoped out a poolside spot for the baby to lounge at the family side of the resort where there are lounge chairs for small people.
And while lounging, lunch was delivered to this happy boy from the hotdog/hamburger cart! You can see it behind him. He was so excited about his burger but it didn't look quite cooked right to us so we didnt let him eat it, but when we got a burger shortly after, he ate tons of it (and then the coaties ate out garbage straight from the bin).
Not a day went by that we didnt visit the ice cream parlour. This boy knew the flavours he liked best and would tell them himself... chocolate, vanilla and pistachio ("green").
By Wednesday we had developed a system that seemed to work best for the 4 of us... that included coming back to the room around 4/5 for some chill time before heading to supper. This is Logan enjoying his mid afternoon room time on the balcony by himself with snacks that I brought from home because he's too picky and I was genuinely concerned about him starving for a week.
We also really liked to head down to the lobby before supper around 530 (supper started at 6) and grab a cappuccino... we did that at least 3 times!
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