Hey guys!
I thought it would be fun to do a little story time today so here is my most embarrassing travel story.
I should say from the outset that this story really puts the “bare ass” in embarrassing,
if you know what I’m saying, so that’s where this is headed.
It was 2008.
I had just met my boyfriend the month before and he’d won this amazing, all expenses
included trip to Cancun, Mexico.
I’d never been to Mexico before.
I’d never even been to an all inclusive resort before but of course when someone says,
“Do you want to go on a free trip to Mexico?” you say, “Yes.”
So we went.
It was an amazing resort called Dreams Cancun and we were there for a week and because we
didn’t pay for the trip we had some extra money to do all of the fun activities around
the resort or to go on little day trips.
And so one of the things that was offered was to go swimming with dolphins.
And so there’s a little group of people in the pool within the resort and it’s this
huge resort so there are tons of people around the pool watching ‘cause they want to see
what you’re doing with the dolphins and also it’s kind of a show.
Everyone in the group is given the chance to ride the dolphins and I think they called
it the ‘Superman’ pose.
So basically you have two dolphins who put their noses behind your feet, you lie face
down in the water, and then as they push you forward the motion is enough to propel you
upwards and forwards so that it looks like you’re standing up like Superman in the
water - straight up and down - being pushed by these incredible dolphins.
So when it came to my turn I got ready in the water.
I was, you know, you do like a starfish pose in the water.
The dolphins swim up behind you.
They know exactly what to do.
And I felt their noses behind my feet and it was amazing.
The trainer says “Go!”
You’re going so fast being pushed through the water and I could feel my chest sort of
starting to rise out of the water and I thought, “Oh my god, this is actually going to work.
This is amazing!”
I was feeling very excited.
And then as the dolphins were pushing me through the water it got faster and faster and I could feel
my bikini bottoms filling with water.
So the elastic was coming away from my skin and they were filling with water and I was
just going, “Please, please, Elastic, hang in there for me, buddy!”
And one second later they were off.
It was one of those cartoon moments where I just felt them go WHEW.
And they just went from here to here and there was nothing covering my tush whatsoever.
I don’t know what the likelihood is of getting pantsed by dolphins but whatever the odds
are I seem to have beat them.
I’m just imagining it from the dolphin’s point of view and they’re thinking like,
“What is this girl’s underwear doing in my face?!
I already have to swim around this stupid pool and push these tourists around and now
her pants are fallin’ off.”
I don’t even remember what I was thinking in that moment except for just pure shock
and I think if you look at my face when it’s happening - I turn to look at the crowd and
you can just see the total powerlessness in my eyes that I cannot stop what’s happening.
Looking back it was so funny and I was really lucky.
This was actually the lucky part of the whole experience was that when the dolphins stopped
- we get to the edge of the pool, right?
- so they stop.
My bikini bottoms are…I mean, the dolphins must have been blinded by my bikini bottoms
being in front of their eyes honestly so kudos to them.
But I was able to quickly flip over and sort of kick up my ankles - my feet - like this
so that my bikini bottoms didn’t sink to the bottom of this very, very deep pool because
otherwise I would’ve had no pants on and I don’t know how I would’ve gotten out
of the pool or swam back over to the group or done anything.
So that was very lucky was that I was able to quickly, after it was over, pull my bikini
bottoms back on but everyone had already seen me without them on so it didn’t really count
for a lot, I guess.
That was the Part 1 of the embarrassing story.
Part 2, if you can imagine, is that this was all video’d as you’re seeing and so afterwards
you go to this little presentation room where they play for you on a big theatre-like screen
all of the videos from the day.
So not only was I living the moment with this huge crowd of people, I had to relive the
moment in another huge crowd of people in this small room where there was no escaping
that that was me and that was my butt and that’s what happened.
Other people in the group went before me.
Did it perfectly, including my boyfriend by the way who really and truly did the Superman
pose and looked like he’d been riding and training dolphins his whole life.
I was like, “Is this guy Triton or what?” but
anyway he did a much better job than I did.
As embarrassing as it was, I have to admit that even while it was happening I was thinking
how hilarious this was and how I just could not believe it was happening.
And really I was laughing as soon as it stopped and at the end I even said like, “I hope
someone got that on camera” because I knew how funny it must have looked and I was so
curious to see what all of these people around had seen because I hadn’t seen anything.
I could feel it and what I felt was incredibly naked but I wanted to see what it looked like
from the side and now I have it forever and so do you.
That’s my most embarrassing travel story so far but I’m going to try to top that one.
I’d love for you to please tell me your most embarrassing story - travel or otherwise
- in the comments.
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*dolphin sounds*