Sunday, September 09, 2007

Húmedo

The Labor Day trip to Mexico went quite well. Aside from the fact that the first night was so oppressively hot and humid. I have never been in a natural environment that disgustingly sweltering. This of course made going to the clubs all the more interesting. As if drunk girls weren't already predisposed to take off their clothes, in the club it was so hot everyone was taking their shirts off. For those of us that decided to keep our shirts on for modesty's sake, after a little while it looked like we had jumped in the ocean. We were so drenched in sweat we had to leave our shirts out to dry the next day. Also, the clubs, like one would expect in Mexico, were rather seedy, but thankfully not as terrifying as I have heard they can be. The stripper they hired at one club they were filming and projecting onto a giant screen so everyone could watch. Yeah, that was kinda gross. Plus who knows what kind of diseases the drunk frat boys got from her when they were grinding with her.
One interesting side effect of all that profuse sweating was no matter how much free beer and shots we took we never got more than a little buzzed since we sweat it all out. Another unfortunate, but slightly amusing, discovery is that in Mexico all mixed drinks are made with tequila. Kamikazi? Red Bull and vodka? Rum and coke? All made with tequila. One thing we did learn was that amid all the putrid rotgut tequila they were serving at the clubs they also had the smoothest, tastiest tequila any of us had ever encountered: Agavero. As it turns out it's actually a tequila liqueur, which would explain its unique taste. I would also like to thank the gentlemen who bought us those shots, as it takes a special kind of awesome to buy not just for the girls but the guy they're with as well.
The condos we stayed at were simply amazing; beautiful view of the ocean, spacious and such comfortable sofas. The air conditioning was also quite lovely, so lovely in fact that it led to brown outs several times during our stay. The water was quite literally like bath water. To be honest, that first day it was not very refreshing to swim in the ocean. It was almost the same temperature as the air. The water was fine later in the trip, though, good enough for all of us to go swim to a random buoy and prove how out of shape most of us were. In fairness, however, that was the longest I have ever swam in my life.
The trip back was notably long, it took us four hours to get across the border the line was so long. Thankfully we left in the late afternoon so we were in line at night. The other group left before us and were caught in line in the middle of the day. Their car overheated and they were stuck in line with no AC for three hours. The weather really was out to get us the entire trip, but holy crap was it awesome.

Words of the Day:
feckless-ineffective; incompetent; futile.
bathycolpian-Having deep cleavage; deep-bosomed.
and just to be fair: callipygian-
having well-shaped buttocks.

The inebriated young man's efforts to woo the pulchritudinous, callipygian and bathycolpian girls proved feckless.

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