Where has J-sizzle been?! Soakin up the sun is where!

Hey gang, so yeah, I've been MIA again. I don't feel like ranting too much today (yeah right!!), so I'll get to showing you my Cancun pics from www.LaAmadaHotel.com (which I highly recommend).

La Amada Hotel Playa Mujeres Cancun

Condominio Playa Mujeres
City Center, Cancun, México

Read Reviews Here

Arrived in Cancun --- This is 32 hours since the last time I had slept =/ not really sure why I'm posting this...

The drive to the resort was quite relaxing

Finally, 45 min later, we've arrived

The Marina located at the resort

Went through two of these secured gates to get there

The location is oh so beautiful!

The Lobby (like everywhere at this place, smells HEAVENLY!!!!!)

Champagne upon arrival! These are my kinda people...wait a minute, we are the same people! (I'm Mexican & Salvadorean in case you didn't know)

Walkway to the best spa, EVER!!!

Had breakfast and dinner here EVERYDAY :)

That's our casita and having our luggage delivered to our room

First Floor to our 2 Floor Casita

Our view = sick

Everyone checking out the 2nd floor - the plunge pool was amazing and the lounge bed was a great place to dry off in private.

Room Service twice a day, it was great service!

Yes, that's an iPod Alarm Clock and no, I did not bring mines along with me, it's the Resorts!

The bathroom is right behind the headboard, strangely placed, but it was beautiful.

Such a comfy sofa (it's also a pull out bed)!

Lots of cable channels to watch when I wanna cool off inside and unwind a bit.

The 1st floor balcony

Stairs to the 2nd floor

Very scary to go down the stairs, nothing to hold onto when you're going halfway down and 99% of the time you're still a bit wet from the plunge pool =/

The day bed was so comfy!

Shower on the 2nd floor

Another look at the room

Sadly I only used the jacuzzi once (it was kinda too hot...)

The bathroom counters

All the toiletries were L'occitane

That's all for today - Sadly I took over 700 pictures, eeek - I will do probably one or two more posts to show you the rest!

BTW - the weather was absolutely fabulous, no rain whatsoever and I laid by the pool after every breakfast until lunch time, after every lunch until dinner time and after dinner hit up the Plunge Pool upstairs, lol. So I got my share of pool time, tehehe, loves it! After several of our dinners and a quick dip in the plunge pool, G and I would stroll on over to our friends Casita (our friends and their two little girls booked at the same time as we did) and play Spades until 11 pm out on the balcony/patio, it was amazing, playing spades and seeing gazillions of stars and hearing the ocean beside you, ahhh, it was so precious. So, why 11 pm and not later? Well...all the lights automatically go out at 11 pm (on the balcony/patio), you can turn the lights on inside your place but since the kiddos were asleep, we all went to bed and thank goodness we did, I'd be passing out at 9 pm everynight...I tell ya, being served hand a foot all day is hard work! I kid, I kid, but seriously, I was actually tired.

If you're looking for a place to book, please go to this Resort, and don't be cheap guys, tips the workers well (only if they do a good job of course), some aren't paid at all and just live off of tips and work insane hours, or else they're fired. We gave our room service a tip everyday and a big tip at the end of the trip plus four bottles of wine!

I can't wait to show you all the divine food I had on a daily and the yummy drinks!

What's so scary is I can't stop thinking of this place, I mean, every few hours I remember the place and I want to go back, desperately!

Toodles!!

I'll leave you with a jam I've been listening to for the last few hours :D can you blame me? all I wanna do is bust a dance move at work, lol...seriously

Fajitas and Faja's, what's the difference?!

There's a huge difference and one similarity, fajas make you thinner (it's a body shaper in Spanish) and fajita's make you fatter which make you use fajas, lol. 

So I never posted my bff's bday brunch pics and I feel horrible for being such a bad blogger. Life is really crazy, I was in Boston last week on business and I've made some new friends at church, I have a new puppy that's driving me crazy (I'm sleeping 4 hours a night) and I'm leaving to cancun in a few weeks, and we've been shopping for more furniture to add to the office we're designing. Phew! That's a lot and I need to being my workouts again, my knees are killing me and I hope my Physical Therapist doesn't read this post...lol (she's mad cool peeps). Anywho, here are the shots, hope you are having a fabulous weekend!!!

Location Lauriol Plaza - 1835 18th Street NW, Washington, DC

Stairs to the 3rd level!

Ceiling of the 2nd level (where we sat)

Love green peppers, in fact, I love green, red, and orange bell peppers!!

Drift away

I want to drift away in my new pair of Aldo Caudle Wedges, er, kinda!

I originally walked into Aldo looking for the coveted "Kerbow" spotted on Lucy Lui in beige:

Surprise surprise, it was sold out in my size at the two Aldo stores I went to, so I tried on the size 37 at both stores and thought maybe I should order these in 36. With Aldo I am cautious with their shoe sizes since I have super wide feet and toes, sometimes the 36 works and sometimes I don't even try it, I'd rather not break any bones, ya feel me? 

Verdict? I did like them and I knew they'd fit in 36 if I ordered them, but I fell in love with another pair, it was like they were made for me (almost). Behold, the newest addition to my ever growing shoe collection

What do I think of them? Since the straps are leather they are very accommodating of my wide feet and they don't pinch me as hard as you'd expect from a shoe that doesn't make my feet look bigger, instead makes them look smaller (to me at least). Now, I've read reviews on women wearing these all frikkin day long, umm, I have stupid feet that don't appreciate heels all day long, umm, I don't have a limo driver or anything, I take the metro for goodness sakes and I run everywhere. So, no, these will not last me all day. After shopping around in these (yes, I changed into ma new babies in the dressing room of Bebe trying on dresses) for a couple hours and doing errands, I noticed an irritation on the bottom back portion of my right leg/ankle! Can it be, a cut from the shoes!?!?! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the shoes cut me (insert irritated face here). This isn't the first time to have this happen to me, I have a pair I use very rarely due to this glue or string issue (can't figure out what's cutting me), I have scars from the first pair and I now have one due to the new pair. This leaves me with three options, (1) return them and pray I get my money back, (2) get them repaired, but can they really repair this is the question or (3) just do nothing like I did with the last pair? I think I'll opt for option numero dos, repair. Here's a shot of the part that irritates me, it's the top right portion of where the zipper ends and it digs into me!!

photo courtesy of AldoShoes.com

So there you go my lovely readers! Anyone else ever have quality issues with Aldo shoes?

Oooo, I'll leave you with a pic (or two) of the new puppy we picked up on Friday!! He's 7 weeks today and he'll be a full sized pomeranian (8-12 lbs).

He didn't let us sleep a wink Friday night, okay okay, we did sleep, G slept...but me, yeah, I slept 1 hour.

Here you'll find my nephew showing Rocky some love!!

I'm still recovering from exhaustion due to being a nurse/chef/maid non stop, poor G had pink eye, a sinus infection and a "flu" then add watching the little booger, Rocky, making sure he doesn't do number 1 or 2 anywhere in the house! Plus my mother fell catching the bus for work on Saturday, sprained both ankles and scraped both knees, so mother's day was a bust, her being on bed rest and G being isolated from the world, we had to reschedule for next weekend, which is when Salvadoreans celebrate mothers day anyways, lol. Yay...okay, enough rambling, love and peace my brothers!!