Day 9: Well.. at least they are not evacuating us yet from all the rain water :) Rained again the whole day, and I think it will be raining again tomorrow and probably the next day, I'm running out of dry shorts... I guess we will see.

Nothing much to do but to photograph iguanas on a rainy day. Rain stopped for maybe 5 minutes and they all came out.

I noticed that I didn't post any food photos lately... well here is a photo of my lunch, I finally had a burger here :)

Oliver and Tracy were taking a nap so I decided to go for a walk on the beach... I wish the weather would be better but nothing I can do about it. I love watching water hit rocks, specially when its cloudy, cold and raining. I never been to England but I always imagined that it would be somewhat this way :)

After walking for a bit I found some Mayan Ruins.. not really but close enough :)

Sad but this old place had a better beach than our hotel... Not as long, but pretty nice.

In the afternoon we decided that if we already wet we might as well go swimming. It was raining and not as warm as we would like it to be but we still had fun :)

Day 8: Today it rained pretty much the whole day, other than some nice weather in the morning. I went for a walk around the resort and it reminded me of a movie, something like "28 Days Later" or something like that. It was hard to find any people anywhere, I guess it was a good day to find a good beach chair spot :)

Tracy didn't feel very good today so Oliver got her a balloon and a flower :)

Day 7: Well today was a difficult day! In the morning we noticed that Oliver had more spots on his body, like little pimples, and because the doctor told us that it could be Chicken Pox, we decided to take him back to the doctor. On a good note he didn't have high fever anymore.

After looking at Oliver for a bit, doctor said that he is "98% sure that it is Chicken Pox and Oliver would need to be quarantined and possibly will not be allowed to fly home". He said that we have to go to the Riviera Mayan hospital to see a children's doctor. After hearing all this I didn't feel so great.

One thing I have to say is that Ambulance and Hospital services here are great! Here we are driving to the hospital in the ambulance, going 160 km/h through a corner, needless to say we got there in no time!

After Oliver was examined by a doctor, we were told that he does NOT have Chicken Pox and this is a throat infection that he probably got on the way to Mexico and that what is causing the rash on his body. Doctor said that we should not have any problems flying home when the time will come and that Oliver should start feeling much better much sooner than I thought. We had to buy a spray for Oliver's throat and I guess we will see how it will go :)

With this being one of the most difficult days here at the resort it really turned out to also be one of the best. Oliver did great all day! In the evening all three of us went swimming and Oliver did many new interesting things in the water, than had a great dinner and we all had a wonderful evening. we really are so blessed to have such a nice little boy!

Day 6: While Oliver is taking his nap, I went for a walk around the resort, taking photos and trying to take my mind off Oliver.

I went for a little swim.. climbed on these rocks.. waves are very strong.. "makes you feel alive" being so close to the strong nature :)

When Oliver woke up we took him to the local doctor here at the resort.

Doctor said that his oxygen is good, his lungs are good.. he didn't find anything wrong with Oliver.. but did say that there were a few kids with Chicken Pox this week reported here at the resort.. So we have to be on the look out for it :(

Day 5: Our day started out great with some yoga on the beach with Tracy, Oliver, and my sister :)

Although our day started out great, it quickly went bad :( Our little Canadian ice-cream cone melted in the Mexican sun :( Oliver got high fever. We found some medicine to get it down for now but we will see how it will go tomorrow :( It is VERY difficult, if not impossible to find a cold place around this resort, I think I have stronger air conditioner in our house in Canada than they have them at this resort.

Day 4: Another day at the resort... here is our breakfast view :)

Oliver is enjoying his morning swim at the pool :)

Every tropical vacation, Tracy and I go for a long walk on the beach.. for at least a couple of hours but usually even longer... I guess this one is not an exception :) We left Oliver with grandma and went for a walk. This time my dad and my sister joined us :)

We walked towards town Akumal, but didn't really make it all the way and had to go back.. pretty far and we didn't really have that much time. We did find this nice pier where we could relax in a hammock :)

On our way to a nice seafood restaurant for supper :)

Oliver's appetizer plate, he really enjoys seafood :)

Day 3: For today's breakfast I decided to switch it up and get crepes with condensed milk.. hmm hmm good!

After breakfast we went for a swim in the ocean for the first time this vacation :) The water was great! The beach was ok but for sure not the best, way to many rocks.

I had some great ribs for lunch today!

This is the view from our room.. not to bad! We are staying on the first floor... there is no elevator in our building, so its convenient for us with the stroller :)

Tracy and Oliver... enjoying a nice swim at the pool before supper :)

Here is a nice photo of me and Oliver that Tracy got with our underwater camera :)

Day 2: For me the day started with some crepes with bacon for breakfast... my traditional vacation breakfast food :)

Oliver is making some calls.. hope they are not long distance.

After breakfast I went for a little walk to explore our beach.

So many fish in the water... it was fun to watch some kids trying to catch them :)

Before supper we did some walking around as a family and saw many of these cute animals, they are very friendly :) After asking around we found out that the name of this animal is Coati.

The day ended with Oliver going topless with grandpa where being topless is not allowed and enjoying nice hammock swinging :)

Day 1: Travel day. Tracy, Oliver, and I are on a family vacation in Mexico. We are staying at Grand Bahia Principe Akumal, where we are meeting with my mum and dad and my sister... a little family reunion! We loaded even more bags than on our last vacation (I didn't think it was possible!) and headed to the airport. Oliver was very excited and he is a such a wonderful traveler!

Oliver was much happier than I captured him in the photo below and he was super excited when we landed in Cancun, Mexico :)

We arrived safely to our hotel, but only had time for a quick supper and didn't do any exploring yet.

Here are a few photographs from a quick photo shoot I did in my studio. The goal was to get a nice, clean photo to be used for an iPhone cover. I took a bunch of different photographs to chose from :)