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So Monday was a pretty normal day as far as vacations go. We spent the day eating, beaching, swimming, and shopping. Monday night was our first of three trips to one of the specialty restaurants. There were three of them – a Mexican, an Italian, and a Mediterranean. Monday night was Mexican night.

The food wasn’t bad, I guess. It wasn’t anything really superb, and I think the fact that we were a table of eight (a huge group comparatively – most groups were no more than three or four) really flustered and confused our waiter, who spoke very little english. Asking for a diet soda got me a glass of cold seltzer water, apparently the code word for what I wanted is “coke light.”

Monday night after dinner, we sat at the bar for another few rounds. Most everyone left, except for Steve, Craig, and myself. We drank, and drank, and then the bar closed. After that, we went to the rooms, where the maid stocks the fridge every day with some sodas, some waters, and 4 beers. We gathered up the beers from all of the rooms, and then drank them.

Finally, we ran out of beer. We called the front desk for room service (24 hour room service is part of the all inclusive package) to have them send us a 6 pack. No such luck – last call for liquor service to the rooms is 11:30, and it was well past that. 5 minutes later, as we’re getting ready to call it a night, the front desk calls back to tell us that if we’re looking for booze, the discotheque is open until 2 AM and has beer. So in a decision that some would call desperation, we decided to go close down the discotheque. It wasn’t hard to do – we were about the only non-employees in the place, and we sat at a table and drank beer until they closed.

Tuesday, needless to say, was not an especially good day. We were originally going to go snorkeling at Xel-Ha, but when we woke up the weather was pretty crappy, so we pushed it back a day or two. We got up and went to breakfast, which didn’t go real well given that… well, you understand. So I opted to spend most of the day in the room. The weather wasn’t cooperating, and I just felt like shit, so I had a ‘day of rest.’ I still think I got off light – Craig wasn’t just hung over, he was actually sick with a fever. Ma Jenkins had the full Jenkins Pharmaceuticals collection with her (she takes it everywhere) and had some antibiotics and other assorted drugs for him, and he was out and about in time for Wednesday’s Xel-Ha trip.

I spent pretty much all of tuesday in the room watching television, mostly spanish language television with english subtitles. Watched most of galaxy quest, but then it started storming and disrupted the satellite signal. And that’s pretty much it. Later in the day I felt well enough to eat, but laid off of the alcohol for the next few days.

What is “shitter yahtzee”, you ask? And what does it have to do with any of this? Well technically, shitter yahtzee is handheld electronic yahtzee game that helps pass the time when, well… you understand. Became quite acquainted with the shitter yahtzee on tuesday. But the beauty of it is that it can be more than that. It isn’t necessarily limited to being a yahtzee game, it could be a nintendo ds or one of those little handheld blackjack games. When you get right down to it, it can essentially be any little device or game you can use to occupy yourself when…

Well, you understand.