Hello, Tangerineys from Mexico. Now that we're in the middle of summer in Puerto Morelos,
it is getting really hot and really humid very early in the day.
So, I've been trying to force myself to wake up early. And by "early" I mean 7 am, so that I can take Laska on
a little "walkito" before the sun really comes up and the humidity just starts to bake it in and you sweat your patootie off.
Mom, I want to go for a walk!
I know you do. Come on, let's go.
I want to go and catch a cat.
Okay.
Hello, good morning!
Let's go in the shade.
After our short morning walk, I usually come back and prepare coffee which is cold brew that I make myself.
Oh and that green powder? That's organic Stevia. It's a natural sweetener.
Mmm!
Coffee.
[Knocking at the door] Hey, who goes there?! Laska, come here!
Intruder alert!
Good guard dog. Good girl! Hello! Hello!
Thank you. Do you have 80 Pesos (change)?
Thank you very much. Have a nice day!
See you later! See you later!
Okay, go get him! What do you have there, Jordan?
I got cinnamon rolls, fresh out of the oven!
I'm so excited for this! 95 pesos ($4.25 USD) for 6 cinnamon rolls delivered to our house!
Mmm!
I'm jealous!
You've caught someone's attention. Well, while Jordan is eating his homemade breakfast of champions,
I'm going to get started on the main dish.
[Pan Sizzling]
We so often get asked in comments and on our live streams, what do we make for food?
And do we even cook at home ever? So, today
we're going to show you what a typical breakfast would look like in our house...
Which is crispy potatoes that are seasoned to perfection
and some scrambled eggs with veggies mixed in. I made a lot of eggs.
This is way more than we would normally eat.
Now it's time to season the potatoes now that they're all good and crispy.
I wait to do this to the very last moment because the pan is so hot.
It will burn all the spices otherwise and then, this place will fill up with smoke
which it's probably going to do anyway...
First some salt.
A little bit of pepper.
Garlic parmesan.
Paprika
Turmeric
And a little bit of chili powder...
And we always like to put nutritional yeast on top of our potatoes. It's basically a vegan cheese type topping.
Uh... dog. You're in our spot.
Mmm!
Breakfast! You know, this is actually
way more food than I think we would normally eat for breakfast, but i'm excited because it's um,
11:36 am and I haven't eaten anything but coffee. Cheers... oh, cheers.
[Plates clanging]
I've literally never cheers-ed a plate before in my life. Okay, let's see how it is.
Mmm! Crunchy potatoes!
Good work!
Thank you.
Yes, compliments to the chef. After breakfast is usually when we do our daily Spanish lesson
and our program of choice is rocket languages.
Regardless of your learning style, they have something for you
but our favorite feature is the audio lessons where
you speak like you're in a real conversation. It gets you speaking the language,
it gets your pronunciation right and really gets you comfortable talking out loud in Spanish
which is actually a pretty big hurdle that we had to get over initially. If you're interested in learning Spanish
We highly recommend rocket languages. If you want to check it out, you can go to TangerineSpanish.com
and that link forwards you right to rocket languages' website.
Yeah, we've tried out a lot of programs and we think this is the most comprehensive; the best value for your money.
So, TangerineSpanish.com and that link will forward you right there.
I think I remember how to get there. Yeah, it's on this road.
We were going to go to My Paradise and show it in a video for the first time
because they have some new drinks that looks really good
but they're closed today. I could have sworn they were open already. I know they are open already,
yeah well and it's not Monday.
Yeah, it's Wednesday. So, this is the frustrating thing right now though is
It's really hard to know what businesses are open and what their adjusted hours are for the pandemic times.
So, we're going to go to another local favorite of ours that was just reopened.
So... I'm pretty excited about that though, except we're dressed like we're going to the beach.
Yeah, I was all prepared - mentally and physically
for the beach, but while we're here, I might as well see what the
sea looks like out here, and the beaches.
So far, I don't see that much sargazo. So, that's pretty cool
and there're some people swimming, some people on the beach, which is still not allowed, but I can understand
why. It is so tempting because it's so beautiful out here.
That is one giant pile of seaweed
they got there. And yep, just checked on my phone and it appears the one day of the week that My Paradise is closed is
in fact Wednesday, and we should have checked the hours. But, in our defense, on google, it says it's temporarily closed
but we know that it is open right now and it was temporarily closed.
We're here at this cool little restaurant in town that we like called "Blue Morelos."
Hello! Hello!
And we were hoping to get a margarita or something, but unfortunately they're not serving alcohol right now.
I'll have to find out what the deal is with that, but I just ordered a couple of tacos instead. (turns out they need special permits to open & serve alcohol during the pandemic. Our server said they will likely have them in about 2 weeks) I got the
Aventón Tacos, so it's a tortilla and you have beef, onion, and cheese and then this really good sauce.
I love these tacos; 2 for 69 pesos ($3.09 USD)
Mmm!
They're so good I had to get 2 more and then
a lemonade for 25 pesos ($1.12 USD), and I almost forgot my lime!
A little bit of lime juice makes everything better...
Almost everything. There's baby birds up in the nest.
Where's mom? Are you coming back?
I'm hungry!
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The next day.
Tell the fine folks where we're at.
We're at this place on the colonia side called Eneida Cafe and...
Good morning. It's okay!
Gracias. In one moment, I'll take your order.
Okay, thank you!
And basically, my cold brew is not ready at home, so I wanted to get a latte to go and
so, here we are. This place is really cool.
It's like a garden area back here and they also have some seating inside, but they serve breakfast, coffee,
juices I think, and smoothies, and some desserts.
So, this video kind of got derailed. A plumber was supposed to come by yesterday morning, and we were going to go to
My Paradise beach club yesterday afternoon after he left
but we ended up waiting around all day and he never came, which is kind of par for the course in Mexico. Yeah.
When people say "mañana" that doesn't actually mean tomorrow or if they say "mañana" meaning the morning,
it doesn't always mean the morning.
But as it turns out, the reason that he never showed up is because he might have tested positive for Covid which
really got me thinking.
How much do we really want to be going out and doing things? And like just in general, I feel conflicted
about what's okay to do right now. I want to be out but we're at a place like this right now and these tables are
well spaced out. There's like
10 feet at least between each table and it's open air. So, there's a breeze and the air is moving and everything but
you know, having somebody potentially
come into our apartment who tested positive for covid, it just really makes you think. So,
anyway, all this is to say, this video didn't quite go as planned, but we found some
absolutely stunning footage of this catamaran tour
we took from Cancun to Isla Mujeres back in February when my mom was visiting at the time.
We didn't release the video because we wanted to spend family time with her and everything,
but it was an amazing tour and
well, why talk about it? Let's just show you! So, on that beautiful February day,
we all met in Cancun, which was about a 30 minute drive from Puerto Morelos. Once we got on the boat,
they cranked up the music and started serving drinks during the short boat ride to the reef.
Next, it was time for some snorkeling!
Maddie, say hi.
Hi! [Laughter]
Diego, let me see you. This is the most interesting man in the world.
[Laughter] Dos Equis!
Everybody, ready on this side? Yeah. All right, young man? Can you...?
Yes, I'm going to record before, but yes...
I can swim very well.
Oh, yeah! Maddie!
It's still on! [Tosses camera]
I could not believe how many tropical fish we saw and they got so
close to us too! At one point I saw a barracuda
and I really had to try and keep together
to get some videos before frantically flippering my way out of there.
After snorkeling around the reef for a bit, our guide took us to the Cancun underwater museum.
This is the largest underwater museum in the world and nearly a million visitors
come to see it every year. This awesome Caribbean museum opened up in 2010 and has
500 unique
sculptures. I had no idea this museum was so extensive because we only got to see a fraction of all the sculptures and we
definitely want to do this again to see more.
You'll be happy to know that these sculptures are made of Ph neutral concrete
and we're clean before being placed in the water to ensure that they wouldn't damage marine life or the reef.
In fact,
this art installation stands to benefit the coral reef.
As time goes on, coral algae and seaweed will grow on them and the sculptures will eventually be completely covered. Soon,
we were back on the boat and off to Isla Mujeres for a buffet lunch that was included in the tour.
On the way there, they continued to serve free drinks.
[Laughter]
Theses are my "Don't fall off the boat" moves.
We were all starving and pretty well lubricated by this point and forgot to record anything
but there was a tasty self-serve buffet with plenty of options for everyone, including Maddie, who has a few food allergies.
We could also order some free drinks there, but we definitely didn't need them.
(Imitating a song0 Beep, beep, beep!
Maddie says Beep, beep, beep!
Trisha says Beep, beep, beep! [Laughter]
On the way back to Cancun, the tour stopped to wind sail with a spinnaker but
Huracán, the mayan god of wind, was not blowing in our favor that day.
We also had the opportunity to swim one last time.
I forgot this is salt water! [Laughter]
Overall, I thought this was a really fun day - five tangerine cars from me. An extra special
thank you to My Trish Advisor for setting up this tour for us.
She actually vetted a lot of catamaran tours before selecting this one and we definitely think it's worth the while.
Also, we did double check and it is available right now,
so you can book it if you'd like, at her website;
www.MyMexicoAdventure.com
we'll leave that link down in the description.
If you don't know our story, about two and a half years ago, we
sold pretty much everything we owned to start traveling through
Mexico.
If you want to see our story from the beginning
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