Welcome to a blog post that captures highlights from our last day in the Chicxulub area!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wednesday was our travel day! We said our goodbyes to Val & George and Rog & Sandy and drove back to Cancún!
But before the family pics, there’s some pics I didn’t include in the last blog as I didn’t want to spoil the mood after our Cenote trip!
After we arrived back at the beach house after our trip the previous day, and before we started packing, I said “Just one last swim!”. I should have just packed!
Youch!!!!! Something just stabbed into my ankle!
As I had stepped forward, I managed to plant my left foot on a young stingray that had been basking in the warm shallows!
What it felt like! 
What it was!
After close to an hour of abject agony… it felt like acid running in the arteries of my leg… George remembered what he had read previously after he had suffered similarly. We plunged my leg into a bucket of very, very hot water and immediately the pain started going away! Heavenly!
So now I know, whenever walking in the shallows of the Gulf, I do the Uaymitun Shuffle… never stepping… only shuffling along as this will give them warning that someone is coming!
Fast forward to the next morning… time to say our goodbyes!
We managed to grab a few pics… to remember our first sibs vacation in 50 years!
After saying farewell, we drove back across the Toll Highway and checked into the Fiesta Americana Condesa Cancun!
The next and final blog post will tell the “Tale of Two Trips!
Cheers!
Love to all,
-Doug and Elaine
The Uaymitun shuffle is now well known my brother. Too bad it spoiled your last day that year.
Stingray is what killed Steve Irwin (The Crocodile Hunter) in 2006!