5. You can easily gain five pounds in five days at an all-inclusive resort.
4. You can actually grow tired of piña coladas when they are brought to you every ten minutes.
3. Champagne does not go well with Mexican food. In an attempt to have a glass of champagne with every meal “because I can!,” I realized that champagne did not taste good with chicken fajitas, beef fajitas, or guacamole. Or piña coladas for that matter.
2. When a 70-year-old woman is sunbathing topless on the beach, it’s ‘honest,’ ‘beautiful,’ and ‘European.’ But when an 18-year-old with large breasts is sunbathing topless near your husband, she is just a whore.
1. The sounds of the beach can relax the whole body. I felt relaxed and serene even as I read novels about religious war, death, failed marriages, and the Great Depression. Even those dire topics couldn’t make me tense up when the ocean waves were rolling back and forth, back and forth, back and forth …

More pictures forthcoming.
#1 by Ellie on February 17, 2009 - 8:01 pm
#2 – Amen, sister!
#2 by Erin Young on February 17, 2009 - 10:48 pm
where did you guys stay? the beach shot looks so familiar. we stayed at el dorado royale for our honeymoon.
#3 by Yvette on February 17, 2009 - 11:13 pm
I’m surprised at the nudity, but glad to hear it all went well! Did you like the Grapes of Wrath?
#4 by hilstreet on February 17, 2009 - 11:19 pm
I am in the middle of Grapes of Wrath, I am enjoying it!
#5 by tierd on February 18, 2009 - 4:04 am
So jealous!!! Looks like a great trip
#6 by Greg on February 18, 2009 - 12:35 pm
LOL might be the most over used emoticon ever. Really? Really? – You literally laughed… out loud?
Well, I did. Your insights (particularly #2) were … um… insightful. Give me a break, it’s early. Glad you had a good time.
G
#7 by Becky on February 19, 2009 - 3:29 am
So glad you guys had a great time! I”m so jealous! (: