Gringo Tour 08/09 - Part 30

Our flight from Oaxaca to Cancun (via Mexico City – the very round-a-bout way) was at the unholy time of 7am – so we had to get up at the even unholy-er time of before 5am to get a cab to the airport to catch our flight. The airport was a bit of a fair distance from the hotel – and we paid about $10AUD for the privilege.

When we arrived at the airport – there was a big long queue (Canberra Airport-esque) to check in. We were flying with Click Mexicana (pronounced “Klee Meh-hick-cana”) which was the “low-cost” equivalent of Mexicana.

Even though we were the first flight out of the airport – we were late by more than half an hour. This wasn’t all that good because we had a connecting flight from Mexico City to Cancun – and only a 50-minute gap between flights. We raced from the plane across to the other side of the airport – where surprisingly – our plane was still at the gate (we were both convinced that we wouldn’t make the connection). We were one of the last people to board the flight (everyone else were sitting down).

Although we made the flight – we were a bit sceptical that our bags were going to make. Speaking of which – we spotted my bag sitting outside the plane – a couple of minutes before we taxied off to the runway. I asked Ant – “Do you think it is going to make it??” and Ant replied – “No…”. Yay… And upon arrival to Cancun – the luggage carousel sin bags confirmed this. We rocked up to the lost luggage counter – where there was this super-mad Mexican – shouting expletives en espanol to the Mexicana woman. She seemed to be doing a rather good Ren impersonation (of Ren and Stimpy fame). We were a bit more pleasant to deal with because we understood why our bags didn’t turn up and felt pretty confident that they would just turn up on the next flight to Cancun (this afternoon).

We left our bag details with the luggage counter – and bypassed the “USD 50” taxi to the city booths (what a rip off) and caught the ADO $3.50USD bus ride to town. Although catching the bus - I could understand why it was so cheap - because they subject you to "Mexican Movie Torture" - aka making you watch High School Music 2 en espanol. It is bad enough watching it in English or on "Ice" but watching a badly dubbed spanish version takes the cake.

After about a 20 minute bus ride - we arrived at the ADO bus station in the middle of downtown Cancun. We were feeling a bit peckish and because we were in Cancun (a quasi-American city in Mexico) - we went to Mc Donalds for lunch (...when in Rome...). We both ordered Mac Nifica meals (sort of like a Mc Feast) - Ant got his straight away - but mine took about 15 minutes (true Mexican Mc Donalds experience). I was loitering around the front counter and they kept shouting in the kitchen "Mc Nifica! Mc Nifica!". I was sort of getting the feeling that they were bagging me out (Mexican Clown style).

To be continued... XO XO - you know you love me... Gossip Girl...