Party like it's 1999

The first problem we encountered after moving here was that we were young compared to most of the Gringos here. I was still in my mid fourties and Josh in his early thirties. Everyone else was retired except Mitch and Jen. That meant endless cocktail parties. Thank God most weekends found us alone at the beach. But if you went to one cocktail party you'd be invited to 2 more and soon you'd be stumbling from one to another as they backed up on one another. After about a year of saying yes we started saying no. We stopped giving and going to cocktail parties. We stopped going to Nafta parties. We stopped meeting people too. If you moved to Merida in the past 4 years you probably don't know us. More recently we don't even see our friends. Renovating 8 houses in 2 years has taken it's toll. Now we stumble off to bed at 9pm instead of stumble off to our 3rd cocktail party.