Mexico Day 6 evening.

Rather than stay at the resort for dinner, we decided to take a taxi into Playa del Carmen for dinner at a restaurant that our concierge had recommended. We didn't have one of the 'theme' restaurant dinners for tonight, so it just would have been the buffet, which was a pretty decent buffet, but nothing amazing, and we wanted to try a good local place.

It's like he bit the snake and all the guts are pouring out of his mouth.

Christmas decorations were tucked into all sorts of nooks & crannies.

Steven & I felt very old compared to the kids.



What a great building!

 We walked down the street about 8 or 10 blocks looking for the restaurant, and we browsed through the shops on our way. Lots of jewellery and cigar places. I guess a lot of Americans like to buy Cubans while they're here, and  Steven must have looked like a cigar smoker, every 2 steps we'd hear: "Meeeester Wheeeskers! Hey...Mr. Whiskers...Cubans? Cubans?". Shane and Scott and Linnea were offered weed quite often, and I was a little sad that I didn't look like the kind of person who might smoke weed anymore. I mean, I don't smoke it, but I might have like to have been offered.....instead I got the polite "Senora" (not even "senorita" anymore) and they tried to sell me silver jewellery.  So just a note to anyone who might be selling weed on the streets of any small Caribbean tourist area...offer it to the middle aged women you see, chances are, you'll make their day. Just sayin'

The restaurant, La Parrilla was on the second floor of a building, our table was overlooking the street, so as we ate we watched the flow of tourists and locals, the weather was warm and the food was fantastic. It was a wonderful meal...one of the best I've ever had, not just in Mexico, but anywhere. And lovely, large, icy-cold drinks as well.

The food was fantastic, as was the service and the presentation. And the bathroom had a sink that I wanted to remove and take home.

After dinner we walked through the streets some more and I found a shop that sold all manner of ceramic sinks. If I would have known, I'd have brought a bigger suitcase. I wanted all of them...they were just gorgeous.

I'd happily have a dozen bathrooms if I could have sinks like this.

We picked up a few souvenirs, no cigars and no weed, just your "regular" tourist items and then as we were waiting for out taxi to return, we, or I should say Steven, spotted a casino, and he does love a casino, so we just stepped inside for a minute, he signed up for their "club", and played a slot machine for 5 or 6 minutes. He won a dollar or two, lost a dollar or two, and he left happy, knowing that he had gambled in a Mexican casino.

And that was the end of day 6.