when i got up this morning i noticed it was about +15C in oaxaca and -30C in lacombe . . . oh boy, i can’t wait to get home. NOT! after packing we went for lunch at a local pizzeria, in the area of the santo domingo cathedral, one of the 16th century churches in the city. as we were finishing our lunch, we heard a band playing and thought perhaps a parade was passing by. but no, it was a wedding celebration at the church. there was a small trumpet band, two persons dressed in huge mascot type, paper mache forms depicting the married couple and dancers in beautiful full skirt costumes. there were a lot of onlookers in the street . . . just another example of how easy it is to feel in a party mood here. i hope they have a good life together.
back at the casa, we said our goodbyes and headed for the airport for our flight back to cancun, via mexico city, where we were to overnight before our flight home sunday morning. i had booked and paid for a room at the courtyard marriot, close to the airport. the fun began as we entere the terminal and we were literally set upon by people yelling at us to use their services for transport. we were told everything from 'there is no shuttle to your hotel' to 'it will cost you $15US each, but come with me for a better price'. i booked this particular hotel because it did provide a shuttle service to and from the airport, so we knew we only had to find where the hotel shuttle would pick us up. but it can be confusing when people are calling to you and almost getting physical in your face and grabbing for your bags trying to direct you to them. it was a bit unnerving and not expected since this was a domestic flight arrival. we did not experience this coming into cancun from edmonton three weeks ago. anyway, we got the right shuttle to the hotel where i had booked and paid for a deluxe room with a king bed. carlos, at the front desk promptly told us there was a problem and would we accept a room with two double beds. seems there was some some sort of convention in town and they’ve had to juggle things. i told him ‘no, you should honour the reservation as it was made’. so, we stood around for a few minutes as he tried to figure his next move which eventually turned out to be upgrading us to a beautiful room with a king bed and other amenities. remember those stare down contests you had as a kid in school? i hope you won a few of them, because with certain types, it comes in handy. we settled in and watched a pretty good movie to get the past few hours of ‘flight head’ out of our systems. very noticeably though, the humidity in the air makes for a less comfortable sleep than that of the past two weeks.
back at the casa, we said our goodbyes and headed for the airport for our flight back to cancun, via mexico city, where we were to overnight before our flight home sunday morning. i had booked and paid for a room at the courtyard marriot, close to the airport. the fun began as we entere the terminal and we were literally set upon by people yelling at us to use their services for transport. we were told everything from 'there is no shuttle to your hotel' to 'it will cost you $15US each, but come with me for a better price'. i booked this particular hotel because it did provide a shuttle service to and from the airport, so we knew we only had to find where the hotel shuttle would pick us up. but it can be confusing when people are calling to you and almost getting physical in your face and grabbing for your bags trying to direct you to them. it was a bit unnerving and not expected since this was a domestic flight arrival. we did not experience this coming into cancun from edmonton three weeks ago. anyway, we got the right shuttle to the hotel where i had booked and paid for a deluxe room with a king bed. carlos, at the front desk promptly told us there was a problem and would we accept a room with two double beds. seems there was some some sort of convention in town and they’ve had to juggle things. i told him ‘no, you should honour the reservation as it was made’. so, we stood around for a few minutes as he tried to figure his next move which eventually turned out to be upgrading us to a beautiful room with a king bed and other amenities. remember those stare down contests you had as a kid in school? i hope you won a few of them, because with certain types, it comes in handy. we settled in and watched a pretty good movie to get the past few hours of ‘flight head’ out of our systems. very noticeably though, the humidity in the air makes for a less comfortable sleep than that of the past two weeks.
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