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Cancun Day 5 (Wednesday)
After four hard days of travel, we decided we needed a vacation from our vacation. We decided to stay closer to the hotel. We decided to go shopping. I figured no matter where we went Michiko would be disappointed, but the most European-style shopping area would disappoint her the least. We settled on the La Isla Mall at km 12.5 on the Hotel Zone, about 5 km from the Hilton. Although we arrived after 10am many of the shops still hadn’t opened, including Zara. We walked around a little bit, Michiko looked inside a few stores, and we left in under an hour. We stopped at another mall on the way back. This mall had a coffee shop with free Wifi, where I ordered a coffee and cookies for the kids. The cookies made the kids hyper and restless, but at least I got 45 minutes of connect time for a nominal price.
One of our major goals was to find the fish restaurant Michiko discovered on the Internet. It was only 1.5 km from the Hilton, on the west (harbor) side of the Zona Hotelera, in front of the Royal Solaris Cancun hotel, right next to a Retorno (designated U-Turn lane). The restaurant, if you can call it that, consists of a single permanent covered structure, two tents where they prepare the food, several umbrellas, card tables and plastic chairs. There is no running water, electricity, or gas. The restaurant has no name and no sign in front. Tourists seldom frequent the place, and the waitresses don’t speak English. They accept only cash in Pesos.
In a nutshell, the restaurant was just what we wanted. The food was incredibly simple and fresh. The Shrimp Ceviche was delightful—for me anything with cilantro can’t fail. The fish was light and fresh. We ordered the fried fish, but they also served it grilled with a garlic sauce and breaded. The Fish Tacos were deep-fried and too oily for our taste. The grilled banana was prepared with a milky cream on top that didn’t suite my tastes very well either. But all things considered it was an interesting experience and well worth the trouble finding it.
After a brief return to the hotel, I took the kids to Wet ‘n Wild. The park is about 5 km from the hotel and contains a variety of slides, tubes, and pools. My expectations were low, so Wet ‘n Wild had no trouble exceeding them. The kids had fun, which is all I really expected. Apparently they have a pool where you can swim with a dolphin, but we never found it and the kids didn’t seem to care all that much anyway. Who cares about a dolphin when you have a wave pool?