Mexico trip dia 5

Puerto Vallarta

Two words to describe this day : Zip and Lines!!!

This morning we woke up early to talk to the concierge about trip excursions knowing that we wanted to do something awesome. According to our deal, our $50 daily credit can go toward zip-lining, swimming with dolphins, kayaking and more! However, when we talked to the concierge she didn’t have any clue what we were talking about. Instead she gave us a BOGO deal of two for the price of one on a zip-lining tour today and a full day tour bus trip to Puerto Vallarta tomorrow. We got both tours for $105 total, so $52.50 each! Not too shabby since we already wanted to go zip-lining and take a tour of Puerto Vallarta.

So we made our reservations, and less than an hour later we were off on an adventure. We drove through and past Puerto Vallarta and up into the jungle laden mountains. Our shuttle driver was very funny. He was from San Bernardino and had a lot of corny jokes that fell well on the ears of those longing for some English.

We were dropped off with a couple from Seattle and they were our tour mates for the rest of the trip. They put us in harnesses and off we went into the jungle. Neither Steven nor I had been zip lining before and man was it fun. There were 12 lines in total that seemed to fly by (no pun intended). The last line run was a head to head double cable run. I beat Steven down but I got a bit of a head start.

One thing we weren’t prepared for is that they don’t allow cameras. They have their own photographer who sets up at all the best spots (some seem impossible to get to) and snaps pictures of you throughout the tour. That means we were at their whim for any price they wanted to charge us for those pictures and of course we got suckered. Well, I won’t say suckered. He was a very nice dude and the pictures were beautiful and when else are we going to go zip-lining? We might as well fork out some cash for the pics.  Unfortunately, they won’t be delivered to our hotel until tomorrow or maybe even the day after.  Here's some pics of other people zip lining though:

and we do have pics of a crazy spider. It was HUGE!  Like eat your face huge:

And some butterflies which are all over the place but extremely hard to catch on camera

We got back to the hotel, lounged and ate lunch poolside and then I had a mani-pedi scheduled. I got some nails to match my Christmas party dress. AO! Since the zip-lining tour didn’t use the $50 credit, I used it on the mani-pedi and basically got it for free except for the tip.

Shortly after the mani-pedi, we went to dinner. This one wasn’t anything to write home about – though I will anyway. Steven had some steak that was supposedly medium but looked more like medium rare or even rare to the both of us. Maybe we’re just not versed in this stuff  (or maybe we’re right. Just looked this up and yes, Steven’s steak was somewhere between medium rare and rare when he asked for medium…or it could just be that Carlos is back and he might have gotten the order wrong as he does). I had some chicken that was just eh.

So now we’re back at the room trying to play catch up with the blog. It’s a hard life trying to keep up a blog when you’re so busy not caring about anything.

Misc:

The trees around here are awesome.  Very jungley:

They call this tree the gringo tree because it turns red and peels when exposed to the sun.