I am going to write this blog about my trip to Cancun this Thanksgiving. Please forgive me, as it seems that I left any writing skills I may have had in Cancun, and now this blog sounds like a third grade paper entitled "What I Did With My Thanksgiving Vacation". I am mortified, and yet I persevere.
This Thanksgiving my better half and I went to Cancun with my sister and brother-in-law. I have never actually been out of the country before, except a brief trip across the border into Canada. In fact, I have never taken a trip of this magnitude before, so it was all new to me.
The pictures I am posting were taken by my brother-in-law. My sister and bro-in-law are avid SCUBA divers and have the cool underwater casing for their camera. I actually opted out of the SCUBA diving excursion as I am a giant pussy, but that's another story for another blog.
Here is the view from the hotel:
Some parasailing photos
Paul and Kristin and the Superman 'chute!
SCUBA photos
Scuba Lessons in the pool
Sea life. See it???
Chichen Itza! This was, far and away, the coolest thing I have ever done. I've wanted to see this place since I was first introduced to it in 6th grade. When I got there I figured we'd be looking at the pyramid and the sports arena and maybe one or two other structures. Not so! The place is enormous. When the Mayans built a city they weren't fooling around. They still let you climb the pyramid, too, which I think is a terrible thing. Think of the erosion all of us are causing! Of course, that didn't stop me from climbing...
The pyramid
An ancient sports arena. The winners had the privilege of being sacrificed!
This is the observatory. Looks remarkably like modern day observatories (except for the crumbling).
View from the top of the pyramid. It's much steeper than it looks.
Another view from the top...
This is right before I pushed these two people off. I don't know who they are. Total strangers. They asked me to take their picture and I kept the camera.
I must say, the pictures don't do it justice. It was a great trip.
I guess that's all from bad writing land. Hopefully the pictures made up for some of it.