Cancun

Me and my family were planning a trip to Cancun. We all started packing a couple days

before the trip. It was the morning of the trip and we all woke up at around 4 in the

morning and this made us all even more tired. We were all waking up, getting out of bed

and we all started getting ready. After we all got ready we just sat down for a little bit

because we were all still really tired. We were in the living room, heater on and drinking

coffee and hot chocolate. When we were done getting ready and doing everything we

needed to do we got our suitcases and started heading to the car. It was dark outside

and a little windy but overall it was pretty cold. We put all of our suitcases in the trunk

and we got in the car and immediately put the heater on because of how cold we were.

My eyes were closing and I took a little nap before we got to the airport. The drive was

about 35-40 minutes. We arrived at the airport and after we ate we were not as tired

anymore. It was early, about 5am and there were surprisingly a lot of people at this time.

It took a while to get to the plane especially with all the lines and I would say it took

about 40-50 minutes of walking through lines to finally start getting on the plane. The

plane ride was pretty chill but I was still nervous because it was my first time getting on

a plane. The intensity built up as I was walking through the aisle to get to my seat. I was

sitting with my mom and my brother and me and my brother were really nervous

because it was our first time on a plane. As the plane was lifting off intensity was

building up but nerves were cooling down and I was slowly getting used to it quickly.

The flight was about 6 hours of just sitting. At the time I didn't have a phone so it was

really boring and it was really early. We arrived at about 1pm to 2pm and keep in mind

cancun is 2 hours ahead. We had landed and we rented a car to drive around and
explore. It was gloomy and windy but it was still nice. We were gonna be here for 4 days

and it was our first day here. We explored the city and it was cool because we got to

see how Cancun lives. There were also nice little huts. As the later it got the sun started

coming out. We were done exploring and started driving to the hotel. “Mom, when are

we gonna get to the hotel” I said and my mom always said “We're almost there” and we

got there 30 minutes later. I got a little impatient because we had been in the car for a

while. We finally arrived at the hotel “Finally we're here” Me and my brother said and

when we got out of the car we took a nice stretch and started checking in the hotel. We

got to the top floor which was the 10th floor. It was really high up and my mom was

scared of walking next to the edge even though it had secure railings and she was

freaking out about it. We got in the hotel room and the first thing we all noticed was the

balcony straight ahead from the door with the perfect view of the beach and the nice

clear water. We even got a good view of the pool. It smelled like the ocean and it was

breezy. We were just chilling for now in the hotel, with the balcony door open and

breeze just flowing through the balcony door. At this point it was already sunny so we

could all enjoy the view with tons of “Wow this is a beautiful view” said by all of us

multiple times. We all finally decided to head down to the beach and we enjoyed

hearing the water with unlimited refills of any drink we wanted. It was very nice and it

was right in front of the hotel so we could easily go back and come back. For example I

would go from the beach to the pool in the hotel which was right next to the beach. The

hotel was very cool and had great service. There was people that hosted games in the

pools and there was about 4 pools with 2 of them being host with games by people. I

played water polo for about an hour in the pool with games on repeat. It was my very
first time playing water polo and I really enjoyed it. I learned how to play a whole other

sport at this hotel. I learned really fast how to play this new sport. After I was done with

that I went back to the beach which literally took 2 minutes because that's how close the

hotel was to the beach. There was a soccer game happening and they invited me to

play with them. It was really fun and I scored some goals and had some assists. This

was all happening while water was splashing, kids screaming in joy , families talking

and it was just a really good environment. After all this we went back to the hotel and

showered. After we were all clean and had our nice clothes on we went to go eat. The

restaurant was next to the pool so we also had a good view of it. There was tons of

people here grabbing food. This trip was prepaid so we could get refills of everything

and seconds of everything. That's something I loved about the trip. We could go get

anything whenever we wanted. Me and my little brother just in shock “It's free?! We

could get as much food as we want?!” thinking it was free but since we were so young

we didn't understand that it was all already prepaid. This was because I was about 11

and my little brother was 9. We were grabbing our food and i'm pretty sure i got some

pasta with fries. The food was very good and the environment of this restaurant was

very good and modern. I liked that the restaurant was in the hotel so we could easily go

eat dinner downstairs. It smelt like good food and we could just hear families talking and

the sound of people cooking food. We all ate dinner and went back to the hotel room. It

was already 9pm and we realized they had a show going on in the main hall for the kids

and had activities for the kids. So we decided to go check it out. It was fun because we

played musical chairs and did fun activities. We did a relay race and my brother got

called up to play. When it was his time to run. My little brother slipped and it was pretty
funny but i didn't laugh because i would have gotten in trouble. Parents and kids were

like “ouuuuu” and my little brother started crying. My little brother is pretty over dramatic

because it wasn't even a hard fall but i understand because it was probably

embarrassing. We went back to the hotel room and changed getting ready for bed. As

we walked into the room we realized the hotel made a cookie for my brother and left it

there for my brother and it said “Hope you're okay Max” and my brother was filled with

joy saying “Wow! They made this for me?!” and he was very happy. My little brother ate

it and was really happy. At this point we were all pretty tired and we all decided to go to

sleep. The second day it was pretty gloomy but it was still pretty warm. We spent this

day going to Tulum and seeing the structures they had. We could hear birds chirping

and there were a lot of tourists. It was a lot of green and a lot of trees. This was

amazing to me because I love history and I was amazed with the history that Cancun

had. It started raining so we went back to the hotel. It was already the afternoon so we

decided to just go eat dinner and call it a day. We ate some good food and spent about

an hour at the beach. So by the time it got dark we just went back to the hotel and at

this point it was only mist and not rainy anymore. We all slept and had a goodnight and

day at Cancun. We woke up and this was our 3rd day here. We spent a long time at the

pool and the beach. We played a lot of sports and even though we were on vacation we

were all pretty active. We went up and we took a bath because our parents paid extra

for a jacuzzi in the room. I was in the jacuzzi with bubbles and it was all soapy. It felt

nice because it was warm and then I dried myself and got changed to just stay at the

hotel. The hotel had these cool little karaoke nights. So we went down there for a little

bit. I made a lot of new friends and played pool. After this we went back home and we
realized it was storming. My parents somehow only realized now there was a storm and

it was already like 10pm so it was almost our last day there. We were kinda scared

because we were on the tallest floor and the storm was really strong. My parents

checked the weather and this is when they realized something really bad. There was

gonna be a hurricane while we were there. The storm was barely starting and it was

already really strong that the roof started coming off the hotel and rain was coming into

the hotel in the main hall where the lobby was with all the stores. This is where it got

pretty scary because we have never experienced something like this. It was flooding the

hotel and they had towels laying on the ground because of how wet the floor was

getting. We slept through it pretty scared. This is where it got even more scary, i woke

up with parents arguing and my little brother crying because he was scared. I was very

confused about what was happening and I got up and my feet were drenched as soon

as I touched the ground. The room was flooded. We contacted room service and the

only thing they offered was another room and they didn't give us any type of refund after

my parents paid extra for all this stuff in the room. There was a hole in the balcony door

and we didn't know. We got into the new room with the hurricane still going. The roof

was practically gone. It wasn't raining but it was obviously windy because of the

hurricane. We stayed inside all day with the hurricane going on. Until it was our time to

check out. We had to drive to the airport in this hurricane. This was the scariest part for

us all because we were getting on the plane during a hurricane. It took us about 30

minutes to get there. The wind was very strong. I remember our parents complaining

that the wind was pushing the car and they had to be very steady. We got to the airport

and it took us about an hour to get on the plane because of the hurricane. We started
getting on the plane and luckily we got on the plane when the hurricane ended. It was

still very windy and that was very scary for us all especially because it was me and my

brothers first time on a plane. We prayed we didn't have to get on the plane during a

hurricane. “Mom what's gonna happen” I said, Mom replied “It's okay, trust me we're

gonna be okay” and me and my brother were still very nervous. We were blessed that

we didn't have to go on the plane during a hurricane. We got off the plane after a 6 hour

flight. We got in a taxi and started going to the other airport to get in our car to leave.

We finally got there after 40 minutes. It was already dark and we got in our car and

started driving home. It took us about 40-50 minutes to get home and we got home and

showered and we just all had a talk about how next time we need to check the weather

everytime we go on vacation. We all ate dinner and went to sleep and just lived our

normal lives but now me and my brother get scared and remind our parents to check

the weather before we go on a trip. Thank god we were all okay and we were pretty

safe.