Yesterday we rented a golf cart and drove around the island. It was so much fun! The sun was sparkling on the water and we kept passing fragrant bunches of sea lavender. This is my favorite place of anywhere we've been on this trip. Everyone is relaxed and on "island time." Along the way we stopped at Tortugranja, the local turtle farm. Every year during the nesting season of giant sea turtles they take the baby turtles and raise them in tanks. Then local school children and tourists help release them back into the ocean. We saw several varieties of the turtles as well as some other sea life. They also take care of turtles who have been injured. Pictured below is a young white sea turtle and Otis and Sofia holding a starfish and sea urchin.
The women who run our hotel, a mom and daughter from Canada are hosting a potluck dinner tonight. I'm going to attempt to make Otis' favorite dessert, Granny Boyd's cookies. I say attempt because ingredients are different here and I wasn't able to find any cacao powder. I do have roasted cacao beans (but no means of grinding them!) and a Hershey's bar of baking chocolate so hopefully it will work. Also, butter in Mexico is very different from butter at home. To me it tastes like margerine and acts like margerine. The Chedraui grocery store here has a great selection of imported foods (they even have Tillamook cheddar) but the only unsalted American style butter I could find was Anchor butter from New Zealand. The kitchen is open air on the rooftop terrace as well as the oven so this will be a new cooking experience for us. My kitchen helpers are looking forward to some cookies so I hope not to disappoint them!
Also pictured below, looking at Cancun across the water and a beautiful flower.
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