My wonderful trip to Mexico! Part one!

Hello my lovelies! I've been back from my amazing holiday just over a two weeks now and safe to say i had a hell of a lot of washing to do and errands to run before i could sit down and go through my photographs and think about writing a post about it. Saying this i am now ready. Hooray! I don't really even know where to start there's just so much!

The journey to the airport is always quite fun and the excitement of the holiday is enough to keep you awake, erm well some people, i slept on the way down to London, only because it was 3am and i was shattered from running round packing the day before. Once we got to Gatwick we headed to McDonald's, so whilst i was eating my bagel i looked up to see Tim Westwood chatting a bunch of young girls on their way to Malia. It set the tone for the holiday tbh. UNBELIEVABLE. So once we checked in we looked round the absolute HUGE duty free. I couldn't decide on anything i wanted so i just bought a really pretty bronzer from Monsoon. I did make a stupid error though, i thought we'd be coming through the same duty free on the way back until my boyfriend informed me otherwise. Gutted. So the flight was pretty uneventful until we thought we'd mix things up by ordering mini bottles of sparkling wine! Made me a bit giddy when we eventually landed. Stepping out the front of Cancun airport we were all greeted by a wall of pure heat. We had to get a transfer to the hotel and it had the most beautiful white stone entrance,  it had individual stone letters spelling out 'Sirenis'. Once we got checked in and seen our amazing room we headed to the pool and all had at drink at the swim up pool bar to toast to the start of out holiday! For the first week we kept it pretty tame, we ate at the buffet at night which had an incredible selection of everything, we sun bathed in the day, visited the local beach which also had a bar & buffet station. We watched the on-site entertainment which is always a cheese fest, we even visited the on-site 'disco-tech'. That just turned out to be an amazing night out because it was so bad that we all just got so drunk to enjoy it. After settling in it got to mid week and we decided to try the hotels alacarte restaurants, everyone got to have 3 alacarte meals a week, we chose Cajun, the Steak house (i obviously had the fish option that night) and Italian. The Cajun was okay, and the steak, well, terrible but the Italian was really nice. We didn't just eat in the hotel though, we ventured to the local town Playa Del Carmen and had real Mexican food in this little restaurant that had mariachi men performing! After visiting the town we decided to go out at night and visit a few bars, it was an amazing night, we got in to this tiny place and got all our drinks free! We moved onto a bar that was on the beach with a huge open air dance floor. 5am soon came around and we headed back to the hotel. After lazing (with an almighty hangover) round the pool the next day we booked our excursions out of the hotel. As a group we booked, Coco-bongos  a huge club that puts on an amazing celebrity themed show and a boat trip with snorkeling. Me and Joe booked to see the Mayan ruins by ourselves and to repel down into a fresh water Cenote.

The morning of the boat trip came around and we were all pretty excited to get out onto the clear blue sea and to drink some beers! We drove down to the harbor where we'd be sailing from and realized it was also a dolphin sanctuary! So whilst we were waiting for our boat we got to watch the dolphins leaping around and loving all of the attention. Once we got on the boat we sailed out into the middle of the Caribbean sea, we sailed for about an hour then they turned slightly inwards to a private beach near a reef. We donned our snorkels and flippers and got in the water. It was incredible being taken to see turtles, stingrays and starfish as well as all the beautiful coral reefs. After we were finished snorkeling we got back on the boat and headed further out to where fresh water meets sea water, in the middle of nowhere! We all dived back out again and were floating with life jackets on whilst the crew threw cans of beer at us for us to drink in the water. It was easily the best experience I've had on a boat and i got the best tan being out in the seawater.

Cocobongo's was insane. We got VIP tickets so we had our own private table that had a bottle of vodka and mixers waiting for us so we could help ourselves, we had our own barmen that came round and offered tequila shots straight from the bottle into our mouths, i sadly have not got the stomach for that. It was situated on a high balcony so we could see the stage and all of the show. The show was basically the dancers dressing up as different celebrities and performing their songs and dance routines for us to enjoy. As well as giant balloons, confetti canons and acrobats dangling from the ceiling. Because we were so close to the stage and as a group of 13 we attracted attention. All the girls got taken up on stage and given these long balloons to wave around and dance with whilst the dancers performed in front of us. When we were allowed to return to our seats we were asked if we wanted to dance on the stages podium in between acts. We were all pretty drunk at this stage so we agreed. The 4 of us went up onto the podium and danced in front of around 1000 people (felt like more). They had two big screens either side that showed us in high definition to everyone. It was an amazing experience but i really hate attention especially because i dance like a fish out of water. It was easily the best club i have ever been too, it was like Broadway meets Reading festival. Was just incredible!

Well that's just part one of this story, because it's a lot to fit in, in just one post. Hope you enjoyed part one of my Mexican adventure.

Thanks for reading!

Love Madison

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