mish&grey: Playa del Carmen – Welcome to America

After a couple of weeks on the Pacific Coast, arriving in Playa del Carmen felt like arriving in America. We checked into the Hacienda Real by Evanta which turned out to be a gorgeous hotel in a great location, near the main restaurant/shopping strip. We had long, well-overdue showers, found the first pub we could and sat down for a beer and soccer. Sam arrived later that afternoon – it was so much fun to see her!

Highlights:

Chilling on the beach on our first afternoon with a bucket of beers;

Me and S

Watching the sun set over the blue/green ocean and white sand (all while listening to techno music!);

Dinner at Babe, an Asian fusion restaurant – tasty and strong mojitos and tequila shots and awesome meatballs and thai fish cakes!;
Eating Haagendaz ice cream;
Watching Grey try on cowboy boots;

S and G

Drinking giant Starbucks coffee’s for breakfast;
Chilling under umbrellas on the beach at Blue Parrot, eating guacamole and drinking cocktails;
Deep fried shrimp and fish tacos!;
Dinner and giant margaritas at Cocina Mexicana on the main drag – meeting up with Shaun Janks et al and watching Grey drink most of a bottle of vodka by himself, and then getting sick (after knocking down a fence and potentially breaking a girl’s leg, falling out of a hammock and being accosted for trespassing by an angry Mexican, and not-eating a giant torta);