I was worried that my arriving at the airport 90 min early would doom me to some kind of mishap, but in a strange twist of fate, nothing went wrong and I arrived in Cabo exactly as scheduled. Keiko and her BFF Claudia, and her husband Greg, had gotten there an hour earlier but waited for me at the airport so we could head into town together.
We got a taxi into town ($50), and went straight to our hotel: The One & Only Palmilla. Now, those of you who have followed my travel stories over the years know that I usually stay in places like the Happy Land Hotel, in Luxor Egypt, where $1.10/night includes breakfast. However, Alex & Rose are the exact opposite of that, and they picked the Palmilla as the place to get married. Now, there are other places to stay in town, but knowing that hanging out with A&R means you're a great big pussy if you throw in the towel at 3am, I decided we should stay at the Palmilla, since that's where the events are and that way we wouldn't have to try to get to some other place at weird hours of the morning.
To view the One & Only Palmilla, follow this link:
http://www.oneandonlyresorts.com/flash.html
So, the discounted rate for wedding guests, including all taxes and fees, came to $625/night, nonrefundable, the first 2 nights of which they charged in advance when I booked back in March. So once you book, you're committed. For $625/night, I decided that it was reasonable to expect that I would be greeted by a unicorn. A talking unicorn. A talking unicorn that pulled up on a magic flying carpet. A talking unicorn on a magic flying carpet that would escort us to our rooms, pooping little rainbows the whole way.
Sadly, no rainbow-pooping talking flying unicorn. But, we do have a giant room. With a gorgeous view of the ocean. And a butler. Here are a couple pics from the room, which we took on arrival:
The view from our balcony, to the north
Greg & Claudia are our next-door neighbors. There's a little wall that separates our balconies.
Sunset, from standing on the balcony railing.
Greg, who is a golf teacher, decided to head straight for the course, with Alex. Claudia, Keiko and I decided to head straight for the infinity pool that has the bar in the middle of it. That's right- the pool surrounds a bar. No man is an island, except the bartender in the infinity pool. Soon we got hungry though, and that meant having to go to the *other*, larger infinity pool, which has a landside bar that serves food. And margaritas. 17 different kinds of margaritas. I decided that I'm drinking pretty much nothing but margaritas on this trip, including, if possible, all 17 kinds on the drink menu there.
As I formed that noble goal, I had no idea of the size of those margaritas- they come in glasses that are huge, and they're very strong. That makes my goal that much harder, but what is life if not an opportunity to achieve audacious goals?
After some food, and a huge margarita, we swam in the infinity pool for quite some time, before heading back for a short nap, and then cocktails with the whole wedding group on the central plaza of the resort. That meant more margaritas, and at 130am when Alex & Rose decided to organize a trip into downtown San Jose del Cabo, Keiko and I decided that we are indeed great big pussies, and we went back to the room to order room service dinner and go to bed.
Now it's 9am, and we're headed back to the beach for a day of aggressive sunbathing and margarita drinking. I could get used to this life...
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