Day 1 pt 2

Alright, I’ve slept I’m on a different computer. So after we got the car last night, we were plunged into a very new experience of Mexican driving. I had a blast, Amy… not so much. Amy did some reading about getting pulled over by cops, which I think freaked her out. Needless to say we went the speed limit (which, by the way, no one else did). The road felt at times like a regular four lane highway where we could go 80 to 100km/hr (50-62ish mpg), but other times it slowed down to 40km/hr (30ish) for a few hundred yards or so before speeding back up. The speed bumps here are wild, they call them topes and they consist of about 50 concrete knobs sticking about 5-6 inches above the pavement in a staggered pattern. My non-powered-steering auto, has difficulty staying straight when passing over them. So between the dozen or so topes and speed zones, we didn’t make very good time to the Hotel. Plus I got turned around once and totally missed Puerto Aventuras (which I’ll get to later) but managed to find a sister hotel, also called the Catalonia. It ended up taking us about two hours from the car rental to getting in our room.
Now, about Puerto Aventuras… I’m not sure how I feel about it. We took a right-hand turn at the Puerto Aventuras exit and found ourselves in what I call the REAL Puerto Aventuras, which was a fairly typical Mexican town. Once we regained our bearings and took a left turn (which BTW was obscured by the Highway which was raised about 30 feet from ground level) we were able to enter this huge security entrance into the “gated community” of Puerto Aventuras. I’ll try to get a picture of that today. We got lost in here too… but after about 10 minutes, we managed to find our bearings, get checked in, Amy found a pineapple juice drink that she loves and we had a Buffet (which was pretty good). We went to bed at 10:45. I’ll try to find out about internet today. We ended up cancelling our ruin plans for today in lieu of our exhaustion and to spend a bit more time exploring this place.
All for now.