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Thank God. Anyway, we returned from El Vacacion de Muerto last night. Arrived home at 12:35am. Kristin’s ear infection flared back full-force after the plane trip and now she’s got a doctor’s appointment this afternoon. I think we may push back our joint departure to LA for a week, and I’ll fly out this weekend (as planned) and then fly back the following Friday on a red-eye and then turn right back around and fly back with her. (Ugh…) We’ll see.

So things you should know about any plans you have to go to Cabo on vacation:

1. Don’t stay at Meliá Cabo Real. The room was nice, but the “all-inclusive” includes some rather mediocre food. I mean, it wasn’t as good as Club Med even.
2. It’s really hot in August.
3. They advertise their beaches as the only swim-able beaches in Cabo. The red flag was up the entire time we were there. I got my shoulder knocked out of socket by a wave that tumbled me. A man drowned on Wednesday.
4. They don’t know how to rescue people on this beach. I only saw the aftermath of the man drowning, but here’s what happened as I’ve pieced it together from multiple people: This older guy who was not in shape decided he’d be fine floating out past the rocks since he was on his boogie board. The current caught him and he was pretty far out and couldn’t get back in. He also decided to do this after the Jet Ski people had already packed up for the day because the waters had become too rough for jet-skiing. A kid swam out to him to try to help. After about 15 minutes of this, they sent someone back to the resort to get help. Help came in the form of a long rope and a little round flotation device. Note: all this time, the guy was fine. He was just stuck far out on his boogie board and scared. They started trying to pull him in and it was when he got to the shore line and the waves started crashing into him and knocking him over when he was no longer fine. This was when Thyra’s sister ran over and when we walked over. The waves had knocked his suit off, he was turning blue, and Margaret and another guy were administering CPR for a good 15 minutes before someone from the resort in a little cart came down. We walked away thinking the resort guy had paddles, but then more people kept heading that way, so we went back. The guy from the resort was just standing there as Margaret and the other guy continued to give CPR. Supposedly, he maintained a light pulse this entire time. Then, about 25 minutes after he first emerged from the waves, he died, and THEN the ambulance pulled up. Not exactly rapid response.

The wedding was nice, but the vacation was traumatic and much longer than we would have ideally liked. I think Kristin and I were done after seeing the guy die.