EASTER WITH MR. SANCHOS

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Church
Made it to a service
Church and Charlie
Church Service
One of the local kids and his grandmother
Beautiful gazebo
Charles and our tour guide Pepe
Mr. Sanchos
Finally made it!
Beautiful resort 
Charlie and the ocean
Soaking up some sun 
Beach bum
Found someone to snap a shot or two
Love him
Mr. Sandman 
Beach side Swag
Make it rain
Waterworks
Playing with the water
Pour it up
Thank you Mr. Sancho’s
This was literally our first Easter away from home and away from our home church. It felt kind of weird but fortunately we were able to attend a church service in the city of Cozumel. Our tour guide, Pepe, showed us around the city and halfway through the tour Charles spotted a beautiful yellow church on the corner. Come to find out, Pepe attends this church so needless to say Charlie was interested. Talk about being in the right place at the right time; we showed up in the middle of service and stayed for a bit of the message from the priest and prayer. It was definitely an experience listening to a sermon in all Spanish. Kinda wishing I’d listened to my Spanish teacher in high school. I caught a couple words here and there. Thankfully, Pepe was there to translate. Halfway through the service we decided to snap some shots on the outside of the church and a little boy started having a temper tantrum in the middle of service. His grandmother was pretty upset and snatched out his seat and escorted him out the church speaking in Spanish very loud. Talk about eventful. 

After hanging around for a bit of the church service, we headed to Mr. Sancho’s beach. One of the few free entry beaches on the island. I must say, Cozumel is beautiful and very rich in history. Mr. Sancho’s beach was a bit further out from the port but well worth the drive. On the way, Pepe was giving us some history lessons on Cozumel and pointed out a few statues, properties and monuments. The beach resort was absolutely beautiful. Charlie and I just played in the water like little kids, dabbled in the sand and just soaked up some good sun rays. I so didn’t want the day to end but like any dream, you have to wake up eventually.  All in all, it was a great Easter Day and now I can live to say I spent Resurrection day chilling beach side. 

Pepe had tons to show us on our Cozumel tour. Stay tuned for more city pics.

Till next time.

Sincerely, 

Deidra Marie 

COLORFUL COZUMEL

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Colorful walls of Mexico
The essential sunnies 
Sun Rays
I soaked up some sun rays too
Then the sun left
All smiles, no sun
Sun came back again
Colorful landscape
Charlie was excited about the plants
Prickly
Beautiful landscape
Beautiful pinks and greens 
Smile Charlie
Bridge love
In the new city 
Sunny days
Hospital grounds
Parking lot 
Condos
Downtown restaurants
Gym
Almost to the water
Hey Dee, look back!
And we out
Our first day in Cozumel and all Charlie wanted to do was look at colorful plant life. Mexico is vibrant, colorful and full of life. I have way to many pictures to cram into one post so I’ve started with  a few shots of the colorful walls near the port and pictures of the new city and some of the old city. Cozumel is loaded with tourist activities from jet skiing, to snorkeling and para sailing. As with any tourist spot, the locals are there to keep you entertained, but I’m easily amused so I chose to walk around the city and take my own tour. Charles and I just decided to get lost in the city, snap cool pics and open up our hearts and minds to be inspired by how the locals live. Far far away from the tourist hot spots, we passed by a lot of abandoned buildings and businesses and ended up  wandering off onto random streets where locals were conversing and going about their day to day duties. It was all to much to take in just one day but walking the city streets helped me feel more involved in the city. My goal was to connect, and while I can never truly connect in the way a local does, I was able to bring home visuals, smells and memories of a city unlike my own. We finally made it to the beach about an hour or so later. I’ll post soon about our beach adventure.

Till next time.

Sincerely,

Deidra Marie 

DOWNTOWN TURN UP AND BALLET SHOWS

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Got a free book…well they were all free 🙂
Let me tell ya bout my best friend
SWAG
Adorbs!
Random building art
Then we got crazy
But then got cute for a sec…
City Lights
Hannah rocked out…by herself 🙂
Duke Energy Building
Street lights on, time to go home.
I swag…
And surf…
And then Hannah dropped the mic and walked away from them haters like…
This weekend was full of interesting events but of course I began it with a visit to the Downtown Raleigh Ballet. My mom won complimentary tickets to a showing of Tempest Fantasy.Mom couldn’t go so she passed them tickets right along to me. I’m huge fan of Shakespeare so I was out of this world excited about seeing the show. And who better to tag along for the adventure than my girlie Hannah! It was Hannah’s first ballet so naturally she was super cheesy excited about it. I was casual about the whole thing, cool, calm, collected….uh no…lol…I was super excited to but played it cool. LOL.  Aside from the hot guys in tights, I must say I was surrounded by some serious talent. I’d like to get in tip top shape like that one day so I can wear over sized tutu’s and glide across the stage like a swan. Ah the random things I desire. HA! Unfortunately, I love tacos to much so I’ll settle for sweatpants and a slow waddle across the stage. HA! 

Isn’t Hannah just a bundle of petite cuteness.:) I had a blast snapping pics in the middle of the street and seeing the ballet dancers do multiple pirouettes without getting dizzy. Only in Raleigh can you stand in the middle of the street and cars politely wait as you snap pics for Instagram. Try that in NY and you might get ran over.

Till next time!

Sincerely,

Deidra Marie