Day Four

Today we went to Coba, a Mayan village and ruins in the jungle. No kidding, in the jungle :). It was amazing! The ruins date back to 300-900 AD. There are over 6500 ruins there but only about 5% have been rebuilt are in good enough condition that you can see what they are. We can't wait to show you all the pictures but here is the pyramid (oldest one in Mexico) we were able to climb. It is 140 (I think?) feet tall and we climbed 120 steps to the top.

Yeah, we made it! From the top is a beautiful view of tree tops, a couple of lakes in the distance and a long way down :).

Then we walked through the jungle to have a Mayan blessing from a shaman (medicine man). We couldn't understand anything he said but it was cool :).
After that we repelled down to a 2000 yr. old cave with a blue cenote (water) at the bottom. Dad was so excited, he was hoping they would let him jump into the water instead of repel down but they wouldn't let him :(. The water was cold but crystal clear. There isn't any rivers here. They are all underground. It was awesome but I was a little frightened, it was dark, there were bats down there and yes I got pooped on by a bat :)! So glad we did though, definetely not an everyday event. We took some pictures with a waterproof camera so I can't put them on here yet. Then we walked some more and took a zipline across a lake. So fun!!


Needless to say it was a great day and we had a blast together! Can't wait to tell you all about it. Love you!

Day Five

Today we went into the town of Playa Del Carmen. We spent the morning shopping and then went to lunch at a different Palace resort and spent a couple hours at the beach. The water is warm and beautiful but sooo salty.



Tonight we went to the fire show put on by our hotel. It was awesome!

Day Three

We sure are missing you so we wrote you a little note!

Today we went to Tulum to see some of the Mayan ruins. It was so awesome! It was amazing to see and touch an ancient civilization and learn about their customs and why they built where they did and how life would have been there. The city was built on a cliff overlooking the beautiful ocean. We got some good pics, can't wait to show you all of them and tell you all that we learned. When we got back we headed to the beach since it was a sunny day today, yeah :)! Dad taught me how to body surf and we enjoyed the warm beautiful water. After that we headed for the pool for a while. Tonight was movie night at our resort. We thought we would check it out since we just wanted to sit and relax a bit. Now we are headed to bed to rest up for our big day tomorrow, more ruins. We love you and miss you. We are glad you having fun and love talking to you each night. Be good at church tomorrow, we will really miss being there with you. Talk to you tomorrow, love you!

Day Two

Last night we had a big storm, thunder, lightening, and really windy. We were hoping it would just blow by so we would wake up to sunny skies but no such luck. Today we saw glimpses of sun but it has been mostly cloudy and windy. The nice thing is that it is still warm and so the yucky weather hasn't been that bad. We walked around our resort today looking at the animals and scenery. There are lots of big lizards just hanging out by the walk ways. Then we did a bit of kayaking and walked along the beach. The beach right here at our resort is very rocky but has really cool shells, crabs and rocks. Only a very short walk down the beach is beautiful sand and water although today it was a bit rough. The water isn't cold and we can't wait to get in it. After our walk we went swimming in the pool and hung out, had a delicious dinner and are enjoying a relaxing evening. Tomorrow we go to Tulum to look at some ruins, we can't wait! Hope you are all doing well, we miss you! oh, yeah, on the way home from dinner it had just got done raining and I almost stepped on this crab. It was mad and it backed itself up on the wall and got his pinchers out ready for a fight. I was freaked out and had a hard time walking the rest of the way back :)!

Mexico-Day One

Well, we finally decided to go on a honeymoon. It only took us 10 years :). We decided to go to Riviera Maya in Mexico and just arrived today. We are so excited to take this vacation and spend some time together having fun. We will miss the kids but know they are well taken care of, thank you Bells! I told the kids we would blog so they could know what we were up to and I thought it would be a great way to keep in contact with them. So here is our first entry.....

After a very long day of travel we finally got here, yeah! we could feel the humidity the minute our plane touched down in Cancun :)! Our resort is beautiful and it feels like we are staying in the jungle. Huge lizards are walking around, there are flamingos, crocodiles, birds, turtles and crabs (most of which are in pens thank goodness). We were starving when we arrived and ate a delicious dinner, walked down to check out the beach (it was too dark to take pics) and are now going to enjoy some much needed sleep tonight. The weather is cloudy and rainy. We hope it clears up by tomorrow. We love you guys! Thank you Dylan for the picture and note, we love it :)!

Enjoying a gourmet meal...I don't know if we were just starving but it was delicious! Here are some pictures of our room. The rooms here are in bungalows with two rooms in each one. Ours is on top so we are in the tree tops. Its pretty cool!