Everyone needed some sun, sand and of course BEER! So we all flew down to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for the week. We left yesterday morning and took the direct flight from Salt Lake City to the old Mexican town of Puerto Vallarta. I really like Puerto Vallarta better then Cancun because I feel that Puerto Vallarta still retains some of the old world feel to it compared to the tourist crazy Cancun. I have been down to Puerto Vallarta a few times now, looking back at my first blog all this craziness started on New Years Eve in Puerto Vallarta with a drunken promise to run a marathon. Lets just say I am off track right now, and this week of all-inclusive resort will not help the training schedule.

I love all-inclusive resorts. We are staying at the Vallarta Palace, part of the Palace Resorts. We have stayed at the Sun Palace in Cancun a few times now and I really enjoy not having to worry about organizing dinner or activities when there is a group of us going. Besides, I can rack up one hell of a bar tab and this way I don’t have a heart attack at the end of the trip when I get the check out bill and realize I have spent $2,259.00 on drinks. That is another story for another day. Before we were even checked in we were drinking the drink of the day. My favorite drink is Tequila. You have to know your way around the all-inclusive resort. They always have their local liqueurs spread out on the bar, they are usually the cheapest mixes, but always stashed somewhere around the bar they have the “GOOD STUFF”. We were lucky because under the bar they had Don Julio, Reposado. A very fine tasting tequila even after 10 shots. I usually follow that up with a Margarita or Tequila Sunrise. If anyone else has a great tequila drink please offer some new suggestions. They also had some great Mexican beer on tap.

Today, was all about relaxing in the pool, working on our tans and of course playing some beer pong. We bought an inflatable beer pong table from Port-a-Pong. The bar was great and would bring us 20 glasses of beer over when ever we needed to play a new game. You can’t beat service like that. Josh was not the champion this time around as is usually the case. My youngest brother, and the biggest of us all, Zack easily took home the Puerto Vallarta Beer Pong Championship of 2008. Check out the video below for some of the best Beer Pong bloopers!

Beer Pong from Matthew Peterson on Vimeo.