This year, Lacey and I decided to go a different route for Thanksgiving. Instead of sticking around our home town of Boise, and freezing our asses off, we decided to leave the country and hit the beach for some R & R. Being that we’re always ballin’ on a budget, we decided to go the very affordable, all-inclusive, Solmar Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. This place is insanely cheap. From Boise (and I imagine most other cities) you can book a full week of all you can eat and drink (including booze) for about $1100 per person. That price includes flight. Yeah…insane. Anyhow, Lacey did a full review on the resort here if anyone is thinking about checking it out.
So this trip couldn’t have come at a better time for Lacey and I. The weather had been getting colder in Boise, work had been going through a stressful patch, and we hadn’t been on a “do nothing” vacation in a LONG time. We very much needed it.
My goals for this vacation were as such:
- Sleep 8-10hrs a night
- CRUSH food throughout the day
- Drink 6-8 Pina Coladas per day (sometimes substituted with a different fruity beach drink)
- Nap by the pool for 1-2 hrs a day
- Take a lazy 15 min. stroll on the beach at some point in the day (you know…gotta stay in shape and all)
- Hammer an enormous dinner and a variety of desserts
- Watch the sunset
- Repeat steps 1-7
We absolutely nailed these goals each and every day we were in Cabo. Not gonna lie, it actually got pretty hard to keep up with this pace by the time we got to day 6. I was feeling like an about to explode balloon. ….but yet, I still powered through the last couple of meals even though I was nowhere near hungry.
Throughout the week, we saw some amazing sunrises and sunsets. We caught a private boat to the famous Lover’s Arch. We ate some amazing food…and some that wasn’t so amazing. We set and broke our own records for blended drink consumption on a daily basis. The main highlight, however, might have been the super awkward Thanksgiving buffet hosted by the Solmar Resort.
I still want to say thank you to the Solmar for going out of their way to cater towards us chubby Americans on our (eat-your-face-off) holiday. They put together a solid spread of typical Thanksgiving foods. There were performers playing what was seemingly a selection of Selena’s greatest hits throughout the evening…which Lacey loved. I think the main thing that made this dinner awkward was the fact that there were only about 6 people there to enjoy it. The restaurant is giant, so it seemed even emptier than it probably was. When the performers finished a song, there was definitely a shortage of claps trying to fill the silence between songs. Lacey and I were actually kind of dressed up, while the other 6 people in the restaurant were dressed as if headed to a Cousin Eddy look-a-like contest. There was one 85ish year old lady rockin’ a Tony Romo Dallas Cowboys jersey, so I’ll give her some credit for at least wearing sleeves to the restaurant. If you watch the vid at the bottom of the post, you’ll get the overall vibe. AWK-WARD
Lacey and I had fun in Cabo, no surprise there, but would likely subtract a day or 2 from the trip next time.
We left Cabo on a Saturday afternoon and headed for Phoenix to catch a Collie Buddz (reggae) concert. I’m guessing most of you aren’t familiar with him, but he’s really special to Lacey and I. We first discovered him years ago on our very first vacation together in Hawaii. Fast forward to last spring when we used one of his songs as our first dance song at our wedding. All that being said, we were both really excited to see him in concert. …we ended up being in the very front row. It was awesome! Check the vid on our instagram if you wanna see me killin’ it.
All and all…this was the best Thanksgiving of my life thus far. I couldn’t be more thankful that I have a smokin’ hot and hilarious wife to spend it with. We hope you all had a great holiday week as well!
…I’m not sure how X-mas is going to compete with this. Ha.
Additional good news, we put this entire vacation on our Citi ThankYou card and reached the 50k bonus point offer with these expenses. These 50k points are going to transfer to the Hilton rewards program at a 1:2 ratio. So thanks to Cabo…we’re getting 100k more points to use for some free nights at a Hilton during our next vacation!
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