Cumpleaños en Playa del Carmen

To celebrate a handful of birthdays (including my own - I am now at the ripe old age of twenty...), twelve (plus two a couple of days later) of us shipped off Friday after class to Playa del Carmen. This is a city on the Caribbean coast just about 40 minutes from Cancún, with all of the beauty, less partying, and European and South American tourists in place of the US tourists. Upon arrival at our hotel, we were told that they had accidentally overbooked their rooms, and that they had upgraded us to a five-star hotel down the street (oh, bummer!). We spent four days and three nights in the Fiesta Azteca Wyndham resort for INCREDIBLY cheap prices for two reasons: the bad economy and swine flu scares have made promotions a necessity. The birthday celebration weekend was a success all around - I'll be sure to put pictures up soon!