Isla Mujeres - Day 4

This is us coming down Ave. Hildalgo, which is the main drag in Isla Mujeres. It's supposed to be pedestrian only, but I saw many mopeds flying past us and even a golf cart once. Don't we look like tourists with our map.

We ate breakfast at a place that I can't even remember the name. I had some pretty good french toast. David and my dad both has some variation of eggs. Noah, of course, gobbled up all the eggs!

This is what we referred to as the Isla Mujeres version of Lowe's.

So after breakfast, we decided to rent a golf cart and see the island (not just downtown). We got an awesome cart. It had 2 rows of seats, both forward facing which made it nice for Noah, plus it had a little luggage area where we stored the stroller. Here we are at a lookout point with some awesome views of the ocean.

Did you notice Noah? He could barely go a few miles down the road and I guess all that food in his belly caught up to him. He slept like this for a long time.

Pretty church on the island.

A school.

Water Treatment Facility

A house shaped like a shell.

A house with grass on the roof. How would you like to mow your roof???

Punta Sur - The most southern point and the most eastern point in all of Mexico.

Noah had a ball with all his lizard friends. They didn't care for Noah so much.

So the story behind this picture is that I touched this temple (yes, even though it says not to touch) in November 2008 and in May 2009, I was pregnant. Of course, I touched it again. Hopefully it works again!

They had a walk way that you could walk up near the ocean and see the crashing waves. So beautiful!

Noah being silly.

In the background of that picture, you can see the place we stopped for lunch. It was a place formerly known as Playa Lancheros, but now is known as Casa de Tixncix (pronounced Teek-n-Cheek). My dad and David both ordered the house speciality (Tixncix) which is basically a red snapper fish, sliced in half, covered with anchiote paste and grilled. It tasted very good and they both almost finished their servings. I needed a break from fish, so I got the chicken tacos, which were just ok.

Next up was the Turtle Farm. This place is a cute little turtle farm where they raise baby turtles and help injured ones. We've both been here before, but this is the first time, a "farmer" came over and gave us a private tour. The only problem was this guy didn't speak a lick of English. Luckily David and I both know enough Spanish to figure out what he was saying and ask a few questions.

Normally, you can't hold the turtles, but this guy let us.

I wasn't so sure about this animal...so weird.

That's the farmer guy in the picture.

Noah, look overe here.

This is literally some guy's house that is floating on its own. He used recycled bottles and wooden pallets. I guess you can pay $5 to have the guy give you a personal tour, but we decided to just view from a distance and move on.

For dinner, we followed the map and its recommendations and ended up at this place called Mochis.

It was so funny cuz when we pulled up, it was literally in the middle of a residential area. The menu was all in spanish. Clearly this was a place for locals, so we were very skeptical. We were the only ones to eat there the entire time. David got a hamburger. My dad got a steak sandwhich. I got something called Media Luna, which was a pork taco in the shape of a 1/2 moon with some cream on top. Mine was delicious, but I could barely finish half of it. We also got this strawberry smoothie, which Noah could have had 3 of those.

That's a picture of the pork they used in my sandwich. So good. The guy who ran the place said "If we don't like our meal, we don't have to pay. If we like it, we pay double". Hehe. After the meal was over, David had to shoot a dart to see how much % off our meal would be. He got 7%.

Then we returned home and found another one of those pesky animals in our room. LOL!