Monday morning we went to the breakfast buffet. It was mucho grande and had omelet and waffle stations, as well as lots of mexican food. The food was very good, and we ate in a giant palapa covered building.

After breakfast we took a Mayab bus (a big bus company) to the center of Cancun, then a local bus to Playa Tortugas. Playa Tortugas is next to all of the giant resorts on the Cancun strip, but is a public beach. The beach was nice but kind of small and cramped, and there was a large building blocking a quarter of our view. We rented a chair/umbrella and relaxed. I had a 10 dollar Hurricane drink from Fat Tuesdays which was right next to the beach. A $10 drink! I don’t think they even put bourbon in it or nothing. The drink came with a cool plastic “glass” with markings along the side. They went from “nobody knows me here” to “I look sexy.”

On the local bus back to the center of Cancun, there were 2 musicians playing mexican music. It was a very cool experience. We walked around for 10 minutes in the blazing heat looking for the big market that the books talked about. Finally we asked someone and she said we would have to take a bus to get there. The map was deceiving. So we decided to abort and take the bus back home.

We had dinner that night at the hotel, in the Tumtum restaurant (crab cakes, new delhi chicken, seafood casserole, sesame tuna, flan). The food was very good but the service was too fast.