Eydie: As a fitness trainer, Aimee is part of an organization that places instructors at international resorts to teach classes for a week or two. She will be teaching two classes a day at Dreams Tulum in exchange for staying at this all-inclusive resort with her family. Throughout the course of our travels, Brook has spent a limited amount of time with kids his age. We decided that we would join the Goodwins at the resort to give Brook an opportunity to romp around with his good buddy Azor and for us to enjoy the good company of Aimee and Mark.
Brook and I took a taxi to Dreams Tulum on our own. I forgot to grab some pesos from John, our human wallet. My impression of Dreams was off to a positive start when one of the porters lent me 200 pesos out of his own pocket to pay for the taxi.
Brook, Azor and Sammy spent their first evening in decadent style, ordering room service dinner and watching a movie in bed. Meanwhile, the adults went to the Seaside Grill to celebrate Mark and Aimee’s 13th anniversary.
Azor’s First Impression: When we first got to Dreams, they walked up to us with champagne and Shirley Temples. We checked in and the guy took all of our bags and walked us to our room. When we opened the door, I thought this is one of the best rooms that I have ever stayed in. It became the best room when the bellboy told me that there is a refrigerator full of Coke, Fanta and Sprite that gets refilled every morning.
John: Brook and Eydie have each been to a hospital emergency room on our round the world journey. Today it was my turn. First thing this morning I visited the doctor here at the resort to have him examine my ear. I’ve been suffering from a significant, chronic earache for 4-5 days now. Upon examination the doctor recommended I see the ear, nose and throat specialist at the hospital in Playa del Carmen. The resort doctor was concerned that the infection had gotten into my middle ear and believed I would have to have the eardrum pierced. (Yikes!) So Eydie and I were off to Playa del Carmen in a van driven by a paramedic to see the specialist. En route to Playa we had a good Spanish class with the driver. To my great relief, the specialist in Playa found that it was just a bad case of swimmer’s ear. He vacuumed all of the gunk out of my ear (third time in my life I’ve had this odd experience), gave me a prescription for two different antibiotic eardrops, and instructed me to stay out of the water for four days. I’m relieved with the diagnosis and prognosis, disappointed that I have to avoid water for most of my beach & pool resort experience here, but not depressed by it since I’ve had more than my share of beaches and pools this year.
Just as we were with Brook’s trip to the ER in Hanoi and with Eydie’s in Bali, we are again delighted to have been able to see a qualified, English speaking doctor in a high quality international clinic. Now let’s see if we can avoid the need for medical care for our final four months prior to our return home.
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