We were up at 4am and in the airport taxi by 4:30am. It feels like we just left this airport…oh, wait a minute, we did! Our final destination was Cancun, Mexico. Matt’s friends, Nick and Dana, are getting married, and we are their wedding photographers.
In Cancun, we landed with about 6 other flights, all of us funneling our way through Mexico’s immigration line. It took 90 minutes to get through immigration. We emerged from baggage into a deluge of aggressive tour and time share operators and found our way to a shuttle bus. Our destination was the El Dorado Royale Resort. The resort is a 25 minute drive south of Cancun. We passed through the exclusive security gates and were verified as guests. It was hard to take in the massive, all-inclusive, no children allowed, resort.
As soon as we walked into the main lobby, we were handed champagne and a helpful porter took my grubby backpack. The porter drove us via golf cart to our suite. Matt laughed because he and Nick (the groom) had met as bell-hops at a resort in Carmel where they both drove guests around in golf carts. The resort grounds were gorgeous. It was really warm and humid, and when the porter opened the door to our suite, we were hit with a blast of cold air conditioning. The suite was such an extreme to everything Matt and I had experienced the past 3 weeks in South America. I just started giggling uncontrollable over such excess. We had gone from sleeping on a cement slab with a thin mattress stuffed with hay to the biggest 4 poster king-size bed I had ever seen. Next to the bed was a Roman style spa tub. White linens were draped around the bed and spa and also hung from the ceiling. It was completely unreal! The bathroom was like a Roman bathhouse, complete with arches. It was all very overwhelming for me. The size of the shower itself could have housed a Bolivian family of 4.
We headed out around sunset and met up with the bride and groom, Dana & Nick, as well as the other friends and family members who had just flown in. It was nice to meet everyone and their families were great.
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