Club Med Ixtapa We visited the Club Med in Ixtapa, Mexico, for a week
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At the crocodile pond | | Peter at the beach |
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Kenny demonstating his soccer skills | | Kenny being swung by the trapeze man |
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Kenny's all set for the flight with his teddy, dvd, and some juice. | | The circus/trapeze setup at Club Med |
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The Club Med beach is great - huge, pretty private, not too wavy. | | The Club Med accomodations |
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This is where we stayed last time we were here, 4 years ago | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3716.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3718.jpg) | The main lobby | | I always tell Eric, please show your teeth when you smile, but he rarely does! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3722.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3724.jpg) | One of the lifeguards caught an iguana | | Kicking a soccer ball with Peter |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3726.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3728.jpg) | Peter at the playground | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3730.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3735.jpg) | At the crocodile pit at Playa Linda - Kenny's pretty flushed with the heat | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3747.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3756.jpg) | There were also lots of iguanas around | | This is another all-inclusive club, just north of Club Med |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3760.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3764.jpg) | We ended up walking back to Club Med along the beach | | Passed some boarded up houses/hotels |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3773.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3777.jpg) | We told Kenny that this is where Mexican boys on a time-out went. I don't think he believed us. | | The Miramar Bar at Club Med |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3778.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3779.jpg) | Sunsets were so uniformly gorgeous that we almost became immune to them | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3781.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3789.jpg) | Eric found a cat | | Watching a show |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3791.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3792.jpg) | | | We took a water taxi to Isla Ixtapa - great little trip |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3798.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3802.jpg) | After snorkeling, we walked around the island. | | View back to the mainland |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3804.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3805.jpg) | Some awesome cactues | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3808.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3812.jpg) | Fluff from these plants were everywhere | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3823.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3824.jpg) | | | This is the beach where we rented a palapa |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3828.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3829.jpg) | We met this friendly Canadian couple on the water taxi | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3830.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3831.jpg) | This is the Baby Club Med | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3833.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3836.jpg) | | | Watching a puppet show |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3840.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3843.jpg) | An obstacle course run by the Petit Club, which Kenny went to | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3848.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3849.jpg) | The pool at the Petit Club | | Roller blading |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3850.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3852.jpg) | After mini-golf for the kids came some coloring time. They were pretty clever about the scheduling of the activities. | | GOs came by the pool area with fruit snacks |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3853.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3861.jpg) | The pool was great, but whew! That sun beating down was STRONG | | Kenny and Eric at the beach |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3862.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3868.jpg) | A sand castle building contest | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3872.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3876.jpg) | Sand fun with Peter | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3880.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3885.jpg) | | | Kenny enjoyed learning ping pong, too |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3892.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3896.jpg) | Kenny in a show | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3903.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3908.jpg) | | | Peter in our room |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3909.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3911.jpg) | | | We took a bus into Ixtapa. There were quite a few armed guards around a bank, which had suffered a bank robbery the day before we arrived. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3914.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3918.jpg) | The pedestrian mall in Ixtapa | | Doing a tye-die project with Kenny |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3924.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3925.jpg) | Kenny on stage doing a soccer demo | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3928.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3933.jpg) | | | At Kenny's section of the Mini Club (the 4 and 5 year old Geckos) |
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| ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3932.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2009/03-07-2009-clubmed/gallery_img_3940.jpg) | | | Kenny in another show - this time he was swung by a guy on a trapeze |
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