THIS is why we love Shopping in Cancun!

SO, yesterday, after visiting fun (& uber-touristy) Market 28, Jen & I headed to our local supermarket (Chedraui) to do some shopping. We made out like bandits, scoring 6 kaiser buns, a jumbo roll of paper towel, chicken legs, a dog brush, sewing needles, 3 cakes (on sale), a 1kg box of Puffitos cereal & the biggest grapefruit I've ever seen -- all for under $20!


The best part of the trip? Antillano & Karat were doing some in-store marketing & offering free samples. There's nothing unusual about that, right? Except that Antillano & Karat make...


Rum and Vodka!


Jen & I both had vodka & cran-apple (is that still called Killer Koolaid?)... And, of course, we asked one of our fellow revelers to take some pix.

Our "Beers of the World" Poster... (Walmart Sucks)

When I moved into our hostel, I decided to hang some posters to give the place some life. I scooted over to Walmart, the only place I knew might have some.

The selection wasn't great. Of 30 options, half were Disney cartoons & the like. Still, I managed to find a few choices I thought Jen & I could live with.

I chose the Black Eyed Peas...

Meeting Mario (Drunk Scooter Guy)

One of the reasons I wanted to move to Cancun was to learn to kitesurf. The area has lots of wind (except during the summer) and miles of beaches, mostly with onshore or side-onshore conditions. Still, for a beginner, Cancun's beaches are less than ideal, because it's dangerous to launch unless you have a few line lengths (100m+) of empty beach & clear space downwind. That's hard to find here.

Anyway, one day I went to Chac Chi Marina (in the Hotel Zone, at km 3.5) because another blogger had recommended the beach there as a good place for beginner kitesurfers to practice flying a big kite. There are buildings to the West (which is usually downwind) but the beach is often deserted (as you can see from the photo below).



Beach near Marina Chac Chi, looking South