Cancun Redux

I have learned a valuable lesson while being here in Cancun. It’s a lot like Vegas, good for about 3 days max. Especially in the summer. The humidity here must be 350%. I’ve never experienced such uncomfortable ness in my life. I flew Francisco out to spend a few days here with me and im really glad I did. You really don’t know how well you “click” with someone until you vacation with them. I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed kicking around with him when I wasn’t busy trying to find wireless on my work laptop or getting incessantly drunk with the A level execs of my company at the swim up bar in the middle of the afternoon. I’ve learned that marriages and even ones sexuality become “loose” terms when significant levels of alcohol are introduced to the equation. Enough said.

I just put franc on a plane back to Costa Rica and as sad as it may sound, I kinda miss him already. I loved experiencing his first trip out of Costa Rica through his eyes. Had I not been here, he would have gone home dressed in Senior Frogs T-shirt with inappropriate saying on the back toting souvenir plastic glasses the size of a small children. Ok, so our taste levels aren’t on par, but im not botherd by it. I think it’s cute that he gets suckered into every tourist trap accoutrement that gets thrown at him. He didn’t have experiences like Spring Break in Myrtle Beach, or trips through South of the Border along I95 to acclimate him to the ways of the trashy American tourist. So I give him a lot of slack. I did, however, draw the line on neon Cancun inscribed wife beaters and penis shaped glass “tobacco” pipes. No way.

Professionally, this trip was a wash. It’s purpose wasn’t business driven. My company takes this trip every year to thank everyone for a job well done. In the one 30 minute preso we had to sit through, I learned that we will hit over 2 Billion (pounds) in revenue this year and projected to almost double that over the next 2 years. So It doesn’t surprise me that they don’t mind springing for a chartered jet and 150 hotel rooms for a week in Mexico. We have a new CEO, and CFO effective October 1, we’ll see how things develop.

So after one more company dinner and subsequent open bar, it will be adios Cancun. You’ve been hot but not bothersome.