Friday

This was our last day on Isla Mujeres and we all wanted to make the most of it. We slept in late and had our last breakfast out on the balcony (scrambled eggs and chorizo). After breakfast, Christina and I rode into town on the moped and finished our shopping. Trying to spend our last pesos, we bought a hammock for Christina, 2 blankets, a couple t-shirts, and some trinkets for our co-workers. We then headed back to the Casa for lunch.

After lunch, we had to endure a very sad event: returning the moped. It had been such a good little scooter, so fun and so fast. To see it go was one of the hardest parts of the trip. It was with great sadness that we bid it farewell. Mom and Jim picked us up downtown in the replacement golf cart (with working headlights!) and took us home. On the way back to the house, we stopped at Lolo's bakery for some fresh pastries. We were going to be there for dinner that night, so we asked Lolo what she was serving. In a very casual voice, she said "I don't know. How do you like lobster?". After telling her that we indeed did like lobster, she got on her moped and headed into town. We could tell that it was going to be a fun dinner!

We decided to go snorkeling one last time at Garaffon de Castillo, so we donned our gear and headed down the street. We spent about 20 minutes in the water, and then some ominous clouds started rolling towards us. Seeing downpours of rain over Cancun, we decided to cut our beach time short and head back to the house. The rain ended up staying over Cancun, but the wind made it such that snorkeling would be difficult.

The afternoon was spent watching the Rose Bowl (sorry Ducks!) and packing all our stuff back into suitcases. Luckily we had brought a lot of food with us, so there was enough room for our new acquisitions. After that, we headed to Lolo's for what was promised to be an "amazing food experience".

Arriving a Lolo's, we were led back to a U-shaped table that had two other couples and a single Brit, making it 9 people total at the dinner. All of Lolo's dinners are 1 table, 1 menu, and 1 unforgettable experience. The other couples were from Minnesota and Vancouver, BC. All had been to Isla Mujeres multiple times and told many stories about their travels. The single was a helicopter pilot from England who had all sorts of stories about flying various celebrities around in his VIP copter.

The first course was a delicious goat cheese and olive oil tapenade on a toasted french bread crostini (hungry yet?). That was followed by a salad course that was a choice between goat cheese or mushroom and Parmesan with greens. After the salad course, Lolo came out from the kitchen with two large Caribbean rock lobsters and said "they come to say goodbye". Fifteen minutes later, we were presented with the main course of grilled lobster with butter sauce, along with a grilled jumbo prawn and spicy rice topped with scallops and a cream sauce. As if we hadn't had enough food, the dessert course was grilled pineapple slices with a home-made mango ginger sorbet. By the end of the meal, we were all in a culinary euphoria (yes, it was THAT good!). It took a while to let everything settle in before we were ready to head home and crawl into bed. Great to end the trip on such a memorable experience!