Honeymoon Rains

On our honeymoon, we went to a resort called Xpu Ha. It’s a natural wildlife reserve. All of the rooms are two to a building. Each building is a concrete and thatched roof hut. These are cloistered in circles of about six buildings. The resort is spread out over a large amount of acreage and therefore people are not crawling all over each other except perhaps in the main recreation areas like the bars, the pools and the beach. They have bicycles you can sign out for free each day to ride through the expanse of the resort at will. With all inclusive packages, you can enjoy all your meals on site and even your drinks for free depending on the inclusiveness of your package you choose. Now some resorts I’ve read about had the same deals but the meals were not raved about. Here the meals are to rave for.

We enjoyed time alone, time walking, riding bicycles and just doing whatever we wanted without kids to worry about (my son – then the only kid – was seven at the time). But we discovered on the first night that those lovely thatched roofs leak. We were somewhat disappointed that there were little drops of water landing near our feet, but we were loathe to inform the hotel deskfront for reasons I will now explain.

Each luxury room has a large double bed and a double Jacuzzi spa tub in the room. We were so excited to try this amenity that we decided to enjoy our complimentary bottle of honeymoon champagne in the tub right then and there. After long hours of flight, airport travel, and busing to the resort, we thought a relaxing tub would be a relief. So, we popped the cork on the champagne, ok when I say we I really mean Hubby did because I was hiding in the other room, and started the water tap on the tub. As we were watching the tub begin to fill we looked at all the knobs and doo dads it had to offer. Hubby said, “Hmm, wonder what this one does.” So I spontaneously pushed the button declaring, “Let’s find out”. Immediately all eight of the tubs jets revved up but unfortunately, there was not enough water in the tub and it caused a rooster tail from the jet stream skimming the water and we stood in utter shock as we witnessed a stream of water jet straight up and hit the roof. When I say it hit the roof, I must clarify that the ceiling/roof of these rooms was about 15 feet up. Our jaws dropped and the panic ensued when we realized that not only was a jetstream cleaning our ceiling but one was also flooding our small bathroom. We hastily pushed the button again and scrambled to find towels to sop up our hot tub mess. We had to call the front desk and ask for more towels. The lady that came gave us that look, you know the eye-rolling-I-can’t-believe-honeymooners-look. At least she thought we were bunny rabbit busy instead of knowing we had just rained our room to a dripping jungle wet.

So, you see, the roof leaked, but only because we were over-eager hot tubbers and had no idea what we were doing. Now, it’s a good laugh over a bottle of champagne on our anniversary.