Riviera Mayakoba, Mexico, day 1

This is us on the bus after a long day of travel, passport checks, customs, a policeman who tried to get us to take a limosine.  We were excited to be in Mexico with the other top salesmen from American Fidelty.  Every other year they take their top 100 to a wonderful place and treaty them like royalty.

Below is a picture of me minutes after finding out that we're going to have to change our names to Gramma and Grampie...Congratulations Dana and Brian!!!!

We enjoyed the 45 minute trip and all the different sights on the way to the resort.  It was fun to read the signs in Spanish and try to guess what they were about.  As we reached the Fairmont at Riviera Mayakoba we were greeted by our new 'amigo' who gave us each a cold wet towel to wipe our sweaty brows after the grueling trip.  They then hauled our luggage down to our rooms while we were led into our gorgeous lodgings.

We were taken into the ball room and given gifts at every turn.  It started with a beachbag full of sunscreen, treats, waterbottles, and added to it...t-shirts, and designer sunglasses.  They gave us money for our dinner in town, name tags, drinks, and then led us out to a wonderful buffet lunch.

After our tummies were full, we were led by 'Senor Chatterbox' down this beautiful  walkway to our spacious 'home' for the next few days.

 

The bathroom reminded us of the garden of eden.  The bed itself was a work of art.  I loved watching the bedmaker work his 'art' on the bed, it was quite the show!

We took awhile to change and explore before we headed over the bridge to our evening dinner/entertainment.  There are so many different pools at the resort, I wouldn't even guess at how many different ones I saw while there. The food each and every time was amazing and overwhelming both in quanity and quality.  I took a picture of my favorite new dish...Ceviche...Brian, note the squid!  It is a wonderful combination of seafood and garlicy salsa sauce...to die for!  The performers you can see at the front of the tables were amazing.  The were dressed in native costumes and their instruments consisted of turtle shells, conch shells, antlers, a digerdoo kind of thing, drums, etc...it was amazing! 

After a wonderful dinner, the performers came out.  The only way I can describe them would be a Chris Heimerdinger nightmare.  They were all painted like Jaguars, birds, warrriors, etc and they came out doing a mayan dance depicting a human sacrifice among other things.  I wished that Jon and Amelia were there to enjoy the dancing along with us!  Their headdresses were 4-5 foot feathers....What awesome costumes!  What a great night!