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Trip Reviews, Ratings and Comments - Trip Review - Club Oasis Akumal, 2000, Part 3a
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OUR AKUMAL ADVENTURE, PART 3a
Tuesday, 6/20/00, Day “3”
I woke up at 5:43 a.m. and went to sit on our balcony to watch the sunrise. This morning, as with most mornings at COA, there was not a lot of color to the sunrise. It would be sort of gray and then the sun was just there. The water brightened to that intense turquoise and it was day.
As I sat on the balcony, five frigate birds flew over heading out to sea. A while later, two more flew over, and another, and another, and another…
I forgot to mention yesterday that our room only got cleaned latish. During our stay, we didn’t seem to have a regular maid, but a couple of fellows, who were seldom the same ones, under the supervision of a really big jefe.
Also forgot that we briefly met a couple from Pagosa Springs, CO, last night, Jim and Carol Ann White. Her family was originally from Adair, OK, and I was raised in Colorado! Once again, small worldness strikes.
One thing I wish I had brought with me is my little butt bag for just wandering around the hotel. My pockets were constantly bulging with my notepad, pen, cigarettes, and handkerchief. I finally took to just slinging my big butt bag over my shoulder for the evenings.
We went to breakfast about 7:30. I again had one of those delicious omelettes with everything, along with some bacon and melete (bread spread with beans and cheese). Pedro and Victor were our waiters. A note about the bacon. One, it was definitely different than our standard bacon here, and two, it was not very well cooked. The Italians seemed to love it that way, but we didn’t.
One interesting thing, we had no washcloths in the room. I looked up the word for washcloth and in my best Spanish asked the nice fellow at the front desk if they had some. He looked at me like I just fell from the moon. Apparently, no, they do NOT have washcloths at COA. Steve made do for several days with one of the small towels, but it wasn’t the same thing. If you use a washcloth, bring one. In fact, bring several—you could probably sell them while you’re there!
After breakfast, we got towels and hit the beach. We snorkeled between the boats and I took fish pictures. Later on, I walked down to the pier and snorkeled along it. The area next to the end of the pier became known as Fish Group B. They were the “usual suspects,” sergeant majors, doctorfish, wrasse, etc. Steve and I also found more neat shells in the area out in front of our room.
We again met and chatted briefly with Jim and Carol Ann. Then Bob’s wife Gayle came over to our palapa to talk about the library in Akumal, Hekab Be (Website http://aceverdad.com/akumal/hekabbeh.htm). That was my Mission #3. We had found over four dozen #2 pencils around the house, and I thought it would be an excellent idea to take them with us to donate to the library. Gayle mentioned that she was giving dance lessons at the library for the remainder of their vacation. She teaches kids dance at home, and Brenda (the American lady who runs the library) was delighted at this offer. Gayle thought they would be very pleased with the pencils, and I knew it was one of the things on Brenda’s want list.
For lunch, we just ate hamburgers and fries at the Turtle Bar. I put some pico de gallo on mine, and, man, was it hot! Then we sat at the bar for a while, chatting and people watching. Marcelino was our bartender today.
It really doesn’t take much to amuse us. While we sat at the bar, we watched with interest a maintenance guy putting fan blades on a fan. The real trip was, he started it running after attaching the fourth blade while he fetched something else. The fan, of course, was running very erratically, and we hoped it wouldn’t suddenly fly apart on us. The guy then climbed back up his ladder, stopped the fan with his hand, and put on the fifth blade. For anyone with a modicum of electrical knowledge, this is a really good way to burn the motor up (not to mention electrocute yourself). However, fifth blade installed, the fan ran fine.
For dinner, I had the eggplant lasagna, which was very good. I just loved the bread at COA, too, which I found out was actually baked on the premises. (Toast they don’t have a clue about; it’s rather more like Melba toast than a good old piece of toast.)
After dinner, we had started over to the Akumal Bar when we saw a Mariachi band arriving in the driveway. Well, Steve was dying to hear Mariachi music, and these guys were not heading for the Akumal Bar. So we followed them along the pathways, around the corner, and back to the restaurant. Mariachi band being followed by two American tourists, right. It tickled us!
When we got into the restaurant, Jim and Carol Ann waved us over to their table. We sat and chatted with them while listening to the band, which was quite good, then went over to the Akumal Bar to await the evening’s entertainment.
Tonight’s entertainment was a troupe of dancers, very good, very professional, who performed to the rhythms of mambo, salsa, merengue, etc. We enjoyed them very much.
Our bartender tonight was Juan Jose, with whom I got into a discussion about the Mayan language. He taught me another couple of phrases: “Tux ka bim?” (where are you going?) and “Bax’ka’walik?” (what do you say? Also, how do you say xxx?) Okay, so here I am trying to practice my Spanish, and the guys are starting to teach me Maya! Oy vey!
We retired to our room with a couple of beers and enjoyed the balcony for a while, then once again fell into a peaceful sleep.
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