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The view from our room
At 2 :45am this morning we reached our final destination. I got up just enough speed in the family van to plow up our inclined, snow-covered driveway to cautiously eek it into the garage. Home at last! Crazy Colorado weather, I love it. We left Cancun Thursday at 11am wearing simple summer attire completely unaware that Denver International called a blizzard warning and cancelled more than 500 flights. Ours was one of them. So we had two choices, translated roughly by the Mexican counter agent; either we could fly into Dallas, arriving at 9:30 pm to stay the night and hope to get a flight sometime the next morning or get re-routed through Washington DC and then into Denver arriving at 12:12am which was a sure thing. We chose the latter thinking “damn the blizzard, full speed ahead!” it’s been five days since we’ve seen the kids. When it was all said and done, what should have been a 5 hour journey took nearly 16. But you know what?
It’s all good. Just another good tale to tell because Cancun was awesome! There were nearly 80 Take Shape For Life health coaches who qualified for and attended the first ever incentive trip this year at the all-inclusive LeBlanc Resort. To give you an idea of this place,… we had a Floor Butler! Jose was his name and his sole purpose was to provide whatever any guest on the fourth floor needed. One example, on Wednesday, after a day of lounging by the pool, reading, eating good food and playing beach volleyball we sent word to Jose from the pool to ready our private jacuzzi. “We’ll be up in 30 minutes” to which he replied “it is my pleasure, Mr. Blanchard”. We spent another day visiting Mayan ruins and swimming in an underground river.
I almost finished reading Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell–which I highly recommend (I did, however, skip one of the final chapters on our flight home, it’s about plane crashes). But as beautiful and perfect as everything was in Cancun, it was the interactions with other health coaches that I appreciated most. The Take Shape For Life “family” as Dr. A calls it is a shining light of health and hope in our obesigenic world. We create health for ourselves and our clients and that’s a beautiful thing. More beautiful than a 5 star resort in Cancun. It’s all good.
Mayan Ruins
coming home to a blizzard