Mexico

 The lovely turqouise waters of the Caribbean.

   Ok, I've got another catch up blog post today. Last month was crazy, after my last blog post about Brock and Jenny's wedding I had caught a redeye flight that night to Toronto to shoot the supercross, came home for 2 days and then went down to Georgia for 4 to shoot the Blackfoot Yamaha team. From there I was home for another 4 days before heading off on the trip I'm going to blog about now....Mexico!

I've known the owner of Leading Edge Motorsports for a while now, since he began sponsoring my friend Brock(the wedding I shot in the last post) back in 2007. When Jason stepped up his team to become the official MX2 effort for Kawasaki, he approached me to do his PR and I've been close with him and the team ever since. About a year ago he approached me to shoot his wedding and I was pretty excited to hear that it was going to be in Mexico. So finally, after a year of anticipation we found ourselves at the airport for our flight to Cancun for a week of fun and relaxation in the sun.

I'll get into the wedding itself in the next post but for now I'm just going to share photos of my week. We were staying at the Grand Sunset Princess resort in Playa Del Carmen and I've never been to Mexico so I've got nothing to go off of but it was a great place. I really haven't had an actual vacation since I became a photographer so the chance to hang out in the sun and enjoy doing nothing but sitting at the beach or the pool for most of the week, with just one day of work in the middle, was just what the doctor ordered. Other than losing my bag on the flight down, I couldn't have asked for a better time and it was nice to come home feeling refreshed and energized.

So, here's a few photos from my trip. Now that I've been I can't wait to go back and explore more, it was a great place and awesome friendly people!

The lobby at the Grand Sunset Princess Resort

The Grand Sunset Princess courtyard

Hanging out at the beach, man that water is warm

Shawn decided to take the serving into his own hands.

The beautiful resort

We made a day trip into Playa Del Carmen

Here's a little moto related content for the blog: Spotted this Alpinestars T-shirt with Marvin Musquin on it in a store.

Hand rolling cigars.

A Mexican accordion player strolls the streets of Playa Del Carmen

Our pre-wedding dinner at the resort featured some traditional dance.

On Friday we took a ferry ride over to the island of Cozumel. Cozumel is a major docking port for Caribbean cruise ships.

 Jenn rides one of the local horses.

 Sweet Mexican 7-11

 You can get anything in Mexico.

I liked the architecture of this Cozumel church.

 The Cozumel waterfront.

Glass bottom snorkeling boats. We took one of these out on an amazing 2 hr snorkeling trip.

Out on the boat.

Our guide, Carlos, gets our snorkeling gear ready to go.

He also kicked things off right by offering us some beers.

 

 We capped off our epic day at Cozumel with some big margaritas at Fat Tuesday's