Post by E-Stalin [Orthrus] on Aug 11, 2010 14:58:29 GMT -5
So we just got back from Mexico, along with some 280 photographs of the thing. So I'm uploading many (Not all) of them if anyone wants to see scenery or my eyebrow.
Note: Shitload of photos = links only. Unless you want me to crash your interwebs. All the photos are pretty big, so if you click on the links with a 10 year old computer you'll have problems. If your computer isn't a blackmarket copy from the 90s, you're good.
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Cancun: Playa Del Carmen
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000058.jpg
This be my brother:
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000061.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000062.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000070.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000074.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000073.jpg
Beach:
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000107.jpg
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Showing off mahself
First sunglasses I've ever had or worn. Never liked the things much. Do I get cool-points for them though?
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000148.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000358.jpg
Mah bro and I again.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000363.jpg
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FOOD: Seriously, the place had the most marvelous selection of foods. I'm just sorry that I didn't get to eat tripe, or whatever Ada called ze intestinez.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000155.jpg
I'M ONA FIRE!
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000156.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000157.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000158.jpg
Cat. The cute little things would hang out by the buffet for obvious reasons.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000164.jpg
Excellent barbeque. Watch it burn.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000404.jpg
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The Chichen Itza....sucked. Sort of. It was pretty frickin' awesome sure, but unfortunately some anal tumor went ahead and spray-painted a bunch of shit in the temple a while back, and therefore none of us are allowed to climb any of the structures anymore.
Back in Belize we could climb the ruins, which were pretty amazing and fun too. But hey.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000171.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000178.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000187.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000257.jpg
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Whale Shark: It's a 20 meter deep (That is, 20 meters down to get to it. It's like....a bottomless abyss underwater) well filled with water, and it is arse-om.
Unfortunately, because some rectal tumor is too stupid to jump into water without killing himself, we weren't allowed to cliff-dive into the thing from any height other than a specially designated stair-way. I think it was 6 meters or so, which is also fun but not quite the ten or fifteen meters we'd have liked to jump from.
From the top: Bad view due to vegetation, doesn't give you a feel for the distance to the bottom.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000262.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000263.jpg
Lower down on the stairs. Maybe....oh, I suck at estimating distance.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000264.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000265.jpg
My bro again. Yeah, I don't like posting many of my own pics. Note the sign to the right saying, "DO NOT JUMP: RETARDS DIE AND THEN SUE"
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000266.jpg
The bottom. The stairs to the right are where we jumped from.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000267.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000269.jpg
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OM NOM NOM NOM
No, this is NOT me. Look at the eyebrows. Yes, this is that evil little parasitic organism we call a sibling.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000166.jpg
OM NOM NOM NOM
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An old colonial era town somewhere in Mexico. I don't know the name of it, but we stopped by on the way back from the Chichen Itza to get some beer. First time I tried Corona, and it turned out to be one of the only two Lagers I've ever liked in my entire life. Corona = good, all other light beer sucks. Give me port or stout any day.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000270.jpg
Me in front of ze church
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000273.jpg
Don't even ask what I was thinking of here.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000274.jpg
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More showing off of myself: I went Scuba diving again. I absolutely loved in back in Belize, so of course I had to go in Mexico. I just need to go and get a certification already so I can dive on my own. Until that I have to dive with a group and instructor, which is still awesome but doesn't give me the freedom to swim wherever I'd like.
Kick-ASS instructors and divers though. Some of the coolest guys I've met in recent months.
Since I'm not certified, before diving we went through a refresher/theory course in the pool to ensure I wouldn't go ahead and blow up my lung. I'm actually damned glad that they do that, it's a good refresher, and I shouldn't have dived without doing it first anyway.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000298.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000299.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000303.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000306.jpg
Mind you: you think the pool looks empty in those photos, guess again. When we did a full circuit there were these youngsters everywhere, and god damn they lost all common sense. We'd swim around them sure, but they'd just walk right back in front of me. I'm stuck between a wall and two kids with maybe a foot of room to swim around them, and I'm just like, "HAI! MOVE"
Then the little bastards would follow us around, trying to bring up the courage to yank out a random dude's air-hose out. It's because of the eyebrow innit?
--
Off on the beach. The lady was my initial instructor in theory, but unfortunately had a cold and so couldn't dive with us. If anyone's wondering, you can't pop your ears or anything if your nose is stuffed, which can make the dive anything from a very literal pain to a ruptured eardrum.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000331.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000332.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000334.jpg
Finally, got picked up by a jetski to move a few hundred yards down to the beach to the boat. Very fun and awesome ride. Note the Italian dude sitting in front of me. He was diving too, and was a really cool guy. Spoke three frickin' languages, and he kind of reminded me of Desmond Hughes from Lost for some reason.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000335.jpg
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Still more show-off photos. I got drunk and bored out of my mind, so we did some basic parkour around the balconies. Kick-jump off the railing and cat onto the wall, then kick-up over it and vault over the rail again. Yar.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000341.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000378.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000342.jpg
However, if you are astute, you may have noticed those photos were taken on separate occasions because.....I lose my hair halfway through.
Yeah, I shaved my head again halfway through the week. For 10 dollars in a highly rated luxurious spa-salon that usually does 2-hour long haircuts for 50 dollars.
They couldn't stop laughing their asses off.
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Mexican safe. I just had to take a few photos of this. Instead of giving us the key to a safe, they gave us the BOLT to the safe. Seriously, the safe-door had a hole in it to slot the bolt into and turn the key. Turning the key didn't lock the thing, it just allowed you to remove the key without removing the bolt with it. Unfortunately, I have no photo of the safe without the bolt in it.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000346.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000348.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000347.jpg
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Cocktails. Free alcohol and drinks on the resort 24/7. And they sucked. Sort of.
The cocktails were real tasty to be sure, but they were still low quality. I can't blame them either. I mean, you have barenders attending to 50 people every minute of the day. I can't expect them to use proper glassware or shakers or anything. They actually used fricking blenders to make many of the cocktails.
So they were tasty, but most of the ones that actually required some proper mixing sucked. For example, their Mojitos were crud and their Martini.....wasn't a Martini.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000390.jpg
Ladies and gentleman, I give you a monster. That.....THING is a Martini. Yeah, seriously. I ask for a Martini and they put the fucking thing in a plastic highball with ice and a lemon on it. And it was HORRID. I didn't even drink the thing. What the fuck's with the lemon on it too? I'm all for a twist of lemon rind but a whole lemon?
I'm Russian, what can I say?
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000394.jpg
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i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000033.jpg
What the hell is that thing? Seriously? It looks like a mouse-shrew but runs like a deer.
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Beer. Is beer.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000056.jpg
Note: Shitload of photos = links only. Unless you want me to crash your interwebs. All the photos are pretty big, so if you click on the links with a 10 year old computer you'll have problems. If your computer isn't a blackmarket copy from the 90s, you're good.
----------
Cancun: Playa Del Carmen
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000058.jpg
This be my brother:
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000061.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000062.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000070.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000074.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000073.jpg
Beach:
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000107.jpg
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Showing off mahself
First sunglasses I've ever had or worn. Never liked the things much. Do I get cool-points for them though?
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000148.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000358.jpg
Mah bro and I again.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000363.jpg
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FOOD: Seriously, the place had the most marvelous selection of foods. I'm just sorry that I didn't get to eat tripe, or whatever Ada called ze intestinez.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000155.jpg
I'M ONA FIRE!
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000156.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000157.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000158.jpg
Cat. The cute little things would hang out by the buffet for obvious reasons.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000164.jpg
Excellent barbeque. Watch it burn.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000404.jpg
--------------------------
The Chichen Itza....sucked. Sort of. It was pretty frickin' awesome sure, but unfortunately some anal tumor went ahead and spray-painted a bunch of shit in the temple a while back, and therefore none of us are allowed to climb any of the structures anymore.
Back in Belize we could climb the ruins, which were pretty amazing and fun too. But hey.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000171.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000178.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000187.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000257.jpg
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Whale Shark: It's a 20 meter deep (That is, 20 meters down to get to it. It's like....a bottomless abyss underwater) well filled with water, and it is arse-om.
Unfortunately, because some rectal tumor is too stupid to jump into water without killing himself, we weren't allowed to cliff-dive into the thing from any height other than a specially designated stair-way. I think it was 6 meters or so, which is also fun but not quite the ten or fifteen meters we'd have liked to jump from.
From the top: Bad view due to vegetation, doesn't give you a feel for the distance to the bottom.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000262.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000263.jpg
Lower down on the stairs. Maybe....oh, I suck at estimating distance.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000264.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000265.jpg
My bro again. Yeah, I don't like posting many of my own pics. Note the sign to the right saying, "DO NOT JUMP: RETARDS DIE AND THEN SUE"
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000266.jpg
The bottom. The stairs to the right are where we jumped from.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000267.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000269.jpg
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OM NOM NOM NOM
No, this is NOT me. Look at the eyebrows. Yes, this is that evil little parasitic organism we call a sibling.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000166.jpg
OM NOM NOM NOM
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An old colonial era town somewhere in Mexico. I don't know the name of it, but we stopped by on the way back from the Chichen Itza to get some beer. First time I tried Corona, and it turned out to be one of the only two Lagers I've ever liked in my entire life. Corona = good, all other light beer sucks. Give me port or stout any day.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000270.jpg
Me in front of ze church
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000273.jpg
Don't even ask what I was thinking of here.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000274.jpg
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More showing off of myself: I went Scuba diving again. I absolutely loved in back in Belize, so of course I had to go in Mexico. I just need to go and get a certification already so I can dive on my own. Until that I have to dive with a group and instructor, which is still awesome but doesn't give me the freedom to swim wherever I'd like.
Kick-ASS instructors and divers though. Some of the coolest guys I've met in recent months.
Since I'm not certified, before diving we went through a refresher/theory course in the pool to ensure I wouldn't go ahead and blow up my lung. I'm actually damned glad that they do that, it's a good refresher, and I shouldn't have dived without doing it first anyway.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000298.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000299.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000303.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000306.jpg
Mind you: you think the pool looks empty in those photos, guess again. When we did a full circuit there were these youngsters everywhere, and god damn they lost all common sense. We'd swim around them sure, but they'd just walk right back in front of me. I'm stuck between a wall and two kids with maybe a foot of room to swim around them, and I'm just like, "HAI! MOVE"
Then the little bastards would follow us around, trying to bring up the courage to yank out a random dude's air-hose out. It's because of the eyebrow innit?
--
Off on the beach. The lady was my initial instructor in theory, but unfortunately had a cold and so couldn't dive with us. If anyone's wondering, you can't pop your ears or anything if your nose is stuffed, which can make the dive anything from a very literal pain to a ruptured eardrum.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000331.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000332.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000334.jpg
Finally, got picked up by a jetski to move a few hundred yards down to the beach to the boat. Very fun and awesome ride. Note the Italian dude sitting in front of me. He was diving too, and was a really cool guy. Spoke three frickin' languages, and he kind of reminded me of Desmond Hughes from Lost for some reason.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000335.jpg
----------------------------------------
Still more show-off photos. I got drunk and bored out of my mind, so we did some basic parkour around the balconies. Kick-jump off the railing and cat onto the wall, then kick-up over it and vault over the rail again. Yar.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000341.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000378.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000342.jpg
However, if you are astute, you may have noticed those photos were taken on separate occasions because.....I lose my hair halfway through.
Yeah, I shaved my head again halfway through the week. For 10 dollars in a highly rated luxurious spa-salon that usually does 2-hour long haircuts for 50 dollars.
They couldn't stop laughing their asses off.
----------------
Mexican safe. I just had to take a few photos of this. Instead of giving us the key to a safe, they gave us the BOLT to the safe. Seriously, the safe-door had a hole in it to slot the bolt into and turn the key. Turning the key didn't lock the thing, it just allowed you to remove the key without removing the bolt with it. Unfortunately, I have no photo of the safe without the bolt in it.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000346.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000348.jpg
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000347.jpg
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Cocktails. Free alcohol and drinks on the resort 24/7. And they sucked. Sort of.
The cocktails were real tasty to be sure, but they were still low quality. I can't blame them either. I mean, you have barenders attending to 50 people every minute of the day. I can't expect them to use proper glassware or shakers or anything. They actually used fricking blenders to make many of the cocktails.
So they were tasty, but most of the ones that actually required some proper mixing sucked. For example, their Mojitos were crud and their Martini.....wasn't a Martini.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000390.jpg
Ladies and gentleman, I give you a monster. That.....THING is a Martini. Yeah, seriously. I ask for a Martini and they put the fucking thing in a plastic highball with ice and a lemon on it. And it was HORRID. I didn't even drink the thing. What the fuck's with the lemon on it too? I'm all for a twist of lemon rind but a whole lemon?
I'm Russian, what can I say?
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000394.jpg
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i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000033.jpg
What the hell is that thing? Seriously? It looks like a mouse-shrew but runs like a deer.
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Beer. Is beer.
i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/Orthrus_2006/Mexico/P1000056.jpg