We left St. Louis, Mo., on Saturday morning at 7.  Good flight, the plane had 24 empty seats which the flight attendants attributed to people canceling at the last minute.  There was no information concerning this storm or cancellation of flights.

Arrived in Cancun around 10 a.m., terminal was empty only one additional flight arrived at the same time.  It felt awkward, but we attributed it to August (vacations over) and the earliest time we had ever arrived.

The Thomas Moore people, who were waiting to pick us up, were surprised that people were arriving since they had heard all flights to Cancun had been canceled. 

We arrived at the resort and noticed right away they were boarding up all the lower windows with plywood including the office spaces.  The desk people had no information on anything going on except that they were concerned with storm.

During lunch at the restaurant the waiter told us they were all hoping they would be missed by the storm, they did not want another Wilma.

Later that afternoon we went to dinner at Captains Cove Restaurant which had just reopened last December after being closed since Wilma.  Restaurant was empty, but people were very optimistic about the impending storm.  A wedding was about to start.

The resort staff person assigned to us finally got in touch with us and asked us attend an orientation on Sunday morning.

The entire resort staff were at the orientation and were pleased and surprised that that many guest had flown in.  They called us brave for coming down but they said they also understood that we would be well taken care off.

We had people in the group from New Orleans and their experience there and were a little concerned.