{"id":4105,"date":"2012-12-05T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2025-07-08T21:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:18:45","slug":"second-week-at-xpu-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4105","title":{"rendered":"Second Week at Xpu-Ha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-9XG49znYeOw\/UME6q7rzmBI\/AAAAAAAABsw\/gXTtdK-XYOo\/s1600-h\/Playa_Zocalo%25255B5%25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Playa_Zocalo\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Playa_Zocalo_thumb-25255B3-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Playa_Zocalo\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Two weeks almost gone, two weeks until we fly out for the Christmas Holidays. We have had pleasant weather here all week, not too hot, not too cool and a few rain drops here and there. We miss our 4 kids their spouses and our 12 grandkids, hopefully we will see them all at our big Christmas party back home near Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-szK0KiKsv_U\/UME6tdE34PI\/AAAAAAAABtA\/vLkMRnWiD2E\/s1600-h\/Playa_5th%252520Ave%25255B4%25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Playa_5th Ave\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Playa_5th-252520Ave_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Playa_5th Ave\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Last Friday we made our first visit to Pizza Leo\u2019s. Our RV friends Robb &amp; Percilla from Manitoba were kind enough to drive us there. Of course we got the Extra Grande Leo, so I have pizza for lunch all week.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to go to Playa del Carmen for the day on Wednesday. Maybe we could find something for daughter Joan\u2019s Feliz Navidad party We jumped on a Collectivo, a big van that runs from Playa to Tulum and back about every 10 minutes for about 30 pesos per person.<\/p>\n<p>The street that runs closest to the beach in Playa is called 5th avenue. It\u2019s a walking street and it goes on for at least 30 blocks. The stores seem to repeat over &amp; over again as you walk to the North from the Ferry dock; jewelry, cigars, restaurant, Mexican crafts (of course some made in China). bar, ice cream shop, t-shirt shop, silver, massage parlors, clothing and bathing suits. We found a few things to bring to the party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-NJI_4y4X4s8\/UME6zJwZVDI\/AAAAAAAABtg\/_gMArbhg1Bw\/s1600-h\/Playa_Peg%25255B5%25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Playa_Peg\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Playa_Peg_thumb-25255B3-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Playa_Peg\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Here is Peggy with a few of her thin friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-dePsM3JZnxY\/UME61V_p9-I\/AAAAAAAABtw\/AIIvSRqbbSc\/s1600-h\/Playa_John%25255B5%25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Playa_John\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Playa_John_thumb-25255B3-25255D-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"Playa_John\" width=\"325\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Of course my friend looked just like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks almost gone, two weeks until we fly out for the Christmas Holidays. We have had pleasant weather here all week, not too hot, not too cool and a few rain drops here and there. We miss our 4 kids their spouses and our 12 grandkids, hopefully we will see them all at our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second Week at Xpu-Ha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1213trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7000,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/7000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}