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Published: March 13th 2015
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People say that being 6 years old is the stage where you enjoy trips a lot, but later you won't remember. However for some cosmic reason I remember a trip I made with my parents to Cancun. I can say that it has been the best trip I ever had made. In those days Santa Claus came to town, he brought me some gifts. Pretty cool when your 6 years old.
At night, we were walking at "La Quinta", (a place where you can find lots of things, like for example clothes, food, etc.) my parents and I found some friends at a restaurant. It was New Year, we sat dawn to eat something and in just a few seconds it was time to say Happy New Year! People were yelling, laughing, and me... well I was eating. By the time I was eating, I said to my-self, "well is Happy New Year, what am I waiting for? Party must go on".
Since my dad knew a lot of people in there, we were able to go to really beautiful places, like Tulum. Oh my god, I felt like a mermaid, the ocean was beautiful,
my imagination in those days was enormous, so why not to feel like a mermaid. People looked at me like if I was a freak, but the truth is that I was 6 YEARS OLD, I didn't even cared. I was a mermaid.
Being at the beach was amazing for me. I had this surfboard I didn't even knew how to use it, but I had one. Every single time I swam in the ocean I took my surfboard with me and pretend to fly, even though I wasn't flying obviously, but as I said, my imagination was too big for me. Sometimes I imagined a shark was behind me.
My parents took me to a place called Xcaret. Something totally new for me, something full of magic. By the time we were swimming I saw all the roots, but I wasn't scared. I felt happy to be at a place like that. Later we went to watch a ball game. At first it was weird to see men playing with only a loincloth on them, but later my parents explained to me that people long time ago dressed like that. It was hard
to understand, but easy to enjoy.
Holbox is one of my favorite places, the place I remember the most. We were at a boat, ready to start the adventure. I was pretty excited, couldn't wait. We stopped at the middle of the ocean, there was nothing, just the sound of waves touching all of your senses, making you feel at the paradise. The people that was at the boat told me that I needed to wait, but I couldn't. I jumped into the ocean. My eyes were looking something amazing, beautiful. A 3 meters animal was in front of my eyes, it was a shark whale around it there were thousands of fishes and some stingrays. I couldn't believe it, I was impacted. I even thought it was a phenomenon. So like people say, "everything has an end", I came back to reality. At Holbox we had a golf cart, I drove that thing a lot, and I felt like the chief. 2 or 3 people went at the back and 2 at the front, whoever and me at the command.
Akumal is another place I remember a lot. You literally swim with fishes,
they were not scared of people, and I guess we were the ones that were scared. Fishes of all types were in there. There were also mangroves, their function is amazing, to stop the hurricanes. That place is like an arm of the ocean, it joined with it.
Some friends of my dad had this huge yacht. It was like a floating palace... okay no, but it was beautiful. They let me drive that yacht. I mean, wow! I compared driving a golf cart with a yacht, and then realize there was nothing to compare. The sensation was amazing, the breeze at your face, watching fishes flying (unbelievable, but true) birds, pelicans, Nature is amazing. We stopped at a little island. There was this little museum, there was no body but it was a museum. When I returned to the yacht, my dad's friends prepared some shrimp. Delicious.
We used to go and it breakfast and a hotel that had a good restaurant. I remember I always ordered hot cakes and milk that was my breakfast every single day. My parents didn’t liked that my breakfast was hot cakes and milk. The truth is
that even now I choose sometimes for breakfast at a restaurant hot cakes and milk, I like to feel again a kid.
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