Xtreme Vacation

So I just got back from vacation with my family.  Anyone that knows me knows I am a beach girl.  I am not a camper, though I will camp but not usually for relaxation.  I am not big into sight seeing, however I will do that if that is everyone's vote and there is shopping some where nearby.  But my preference is to be in the sun and by the pool and near a beach.  I also must make a confession here, as much as I love the beach, I am not crazy about sand.  I like to walk on the sand and I like to swim and snorkle in the ocean.  However, I am not a fan of sand in my bathing suit.  I do not like that one bit and I do not like having to clean sand out of my kids' bathing suits either.  But if there is sunshine, a pool and a beach involved, that is my kind of vacation.   This time we spent a week on the Mexican Rivera in Playa Del Carmen.  One day we took an excursion called "Xteme Mayan" where we spent the day in the Mayan Jungle snorkeling in their underground caves and fresh water rivers, zip lining over the jungle and repelling down into the rain forest.  It was a pretty extreme day and I was proud of my kids and myself for doing everything we did.  My husband said he was surprised I did any of it.  I was offfended.  So that night while I was putting aloe vera on the place where the harness pinched my bottom, I started thinking about our vacations.  My husband is not remembering anything right!!  In my younger days before I had kids my husband and I took some beach vacations and did some sporty things which bordered on 'xtreme' activities.  Snorkleing boat trips, biking the crater in Maui after getting up at 3:00am to see the sunrise.  Then with the kids we did the some what different trips, but still extreme in other ways.  Disney extravanganzas and Six Flagg excursions, beach vacations etc.  These trips included a binky over the side of the Jungle Cruise in Disneyland as we watched any hope of an afternoon nap sink into the murky water.  Flip flops thrown into the Small World topiary garden when she didn't get what she wanted in the gift shop.  Melting eskimo pies shaped like Shamu and the souvenier cup with a shark on the top you will never use again.  Pouting teenagers that think the San Diego Zoo is for babies and why can't I buy a shirt with a maijuana leaf on it in Barbados??   Don't poop in your swim suit, that is so gross.  Will you buy me another hat because I forgot to take mine off and I lost it on Space Mountain and I think I left my Ipod on the plane in Dallas.  Someone just thew up on the hotel shuttle and we need to find an ATM.   I forgot to take my phone out of my pocket before I got in the pool and I have wet pants after the log ride.  Yes you need sunscreen on your feet and we are all going to dinner together, table for 19 please.  We missed the connection so here is your Delta courtesy kit and we'll have to come back in the morning.   Your bag is 3 pounds over so open it up and switch some things around right now.  I thought you had the passports.  No, don't eat that after it fell in the sand.  Could you just act like your having a good time, for me?  Please?   Xtreme is not the word for it.  I'm tired just recalling it.  I'll snorkle a cave in the Yucatan any day.  Later.