Our last few days in Playa del Carmen were very low-key, probably because we needed our bodies to thaw from snowshoeing up a snowy mountain. I have decided that Canadian winters are awesome as long as I have a blanket, a hot beverage, and am sitting in front of a fireplace.
We rang in the new year with some good company, good wine, and watching fireworks from the rooftop of Jeannie’s friend, Sara’s, place. A beach visit was attempted a few days later as we still had not done so; however, the weather was less than ideal. Phil and I are not beach-crazy people, but I am quite marveled at the irony that the days were hot and humid up until when we actually made time to go to the beach. Then it was grey and chilly. All was not lost as we decided to go to Los Tabernacos, a Québécois restaurant, and ate an inhuman amount of delicious poutine.
Ringing in the new year!
Getting poutine-wasted
On Thursday, we joined Jeannie and her supper club buddies at Comet 984, a ’50s-style vegan diner. Yes, I willingly went to a vegan restaurant. And I LIKED it. Who am I?
Also joining us for supper club that evening were Tim and Marisa, a fun couple from Illinois who happened to be travelling on a bike in the same direction as us. Phil connected with Tim through a motorcycle travel Facebook group and arranged to meet up in a public place, just in case one of them happened to be a serial killer.
Tim and Marisa turned out to be wonderful people and have become good friends of ours so you should memorize their names and go check out their blog, Notier’s Frontiers, because you’ll be seeing them on our blog from time to time. Also, did I mention they’re fun?
The four of us had dinner at our apartment on our last night in Playa and planned to cross the border to Belize in two days together.
Front-camera selfie… enough said
