Our trip to Cancun was amazing! The pictures won't even do it justice. Even though I have a million pictures here, I did not take as many as I wanted...I was having way too much fun!
If you don't want to look at "boring vacation pictures", just skip this post.
We drove to
Las Vegas on Friday, flew to Mexico City on Saturday, then flew to Cancun. The only way I can describe the feeling when we walked outside, off the the plane was suffocation. It was SO humid, it took a while to get used to it, but then I loved it...I didn't have to use lotion down there. We got to our hotel at 2 a.m. Sunday Morning. So I'll do these pictures in order...
Sunday, Day 1:The hotel was beautiful! I
highly recommend it! It was adults only and all inclusive (food, drinks, room service, gratuity, all included). The picture below is of one of the walk ways to a restaurant. There was a buffet for breakfast & lunch and dinner you could choose from different types of restaurants, Steak, Lobster, Italian, French, Mexican, Japanese. My favorite part was the unlimited guacamole and fruity drinks! Even on the beach they had waiters that would come to you and take your order and bring you drinks. Ah, so nice!
My first time seeing an iguana. I saw a ton of them!
Our first time on the beach.
Ah, soaking up some sun.
I love sandy feet!
Later that night we played ping pong and darts. I totally rock at darts! I was pretty proud of my almost bull's eye. (don't mind my hair, I did not do it the whole time I was there. I was just wet all the time.)
The beach after dinner. I could be at the beach 24/7
Monday, Day 2:We took a van tour to
Chichen Itza, the old Mayan Ruins.
It was AMAZING (except the annoying Americans, & Canadians we were on the bus with!).
The 1000 columns. We had a two hour tour. It was SO freaking hot, but it was so awesome!
Can you believe the
Mayan's built this with their hands?? It's amazing to me. We learned so much about it, it was like a history class...it was great!
We're the stuff!
Ben in front of the observatory. Again, I could not believe how much they knew about astronomy and math way back then!
After the tour we ate lunch and hand homemade corn tortillas made on a rock with our tacos. YUM! Then we drove to a Sink Hole. Is was amazing! It felt so good to swim in the cool water after the heat of the tour. We had to hold on tight to the rope and climb on down to swim. Sorry for the crappy picture. Those are tree roots that are just hanging there. It was so cool to swim there with the fish and the bats flying above our head.
The tree roots from the ground outside, going down.
At the sink hole we bought coconuts from a cute 10 year old boy. He chopped off the top of them with a machete and put a straw in them so we could drink the warm coconut milk. I was in Heaven!! And I am so sad I did not take a picture of it!
We stopped in a town on the way back. That church is 500 years old!!
Overlooking the town square and the church from the City Hall.
Inside the church. It was beautiful!
Ben in front of the Town Square.
The outside of City Hall
Tuesday, Day 3: No Pictures, we were too busy having fun and relaxing
Wednesday, Day 4:Our last full day here (we will know for next time to STAY LONGER!).
It was always so humid so it was hard to take a good picture. Here is Ben lounging at the beach reading his book. We'd swim, then lounge, then swim, then lounge.
Me getting out of the water. p.s. the fish like it when you pee in the water. I had like 20 fish around me when I would pee (oh come on...don't tell me you haven't
pee'd in the ocean!)
Ben trying to swim with the waves.
Our hotel at night after dinner. Oh how I miss all the food!!
Sunset by the pool.
We walked along the beach at night and these little camouflage crabs would come out of their holes.
Thursday, Day 5: Our last morning...Tear...
One of the board walks. It was so gorgeous there. We could not get over it!
Our little crab friend. We walked down by the beach at sunrise (6 a.m.). We wanted to spend as much time as we could by the beach before we had to leave at 10 a.m.
All of these are from Sunrise. I love it!
Oops, sideways.
Our last walk before we had breakfast.
We flew back to Las Vegas this day and stayed on the strip that night. We had a nice date, then woke up and got some things for the kids at M&M world (their favorite), then drove home.
We went to Texas Roadhouse that night and to a movie.
I was having stomach issues the next morning, so Ben woke up and did all the laundry before we picked up the kids and let me relax (thanks Ben!!). We were so excited to go pick up the boys! Thank you SO much to Ben's Mom, My Mom, and to Rob & Kandis for watching our boys!! I know they had fun with you all, but it was also nice to know they missed us a lot too! Ethan is clinging to me right now and won't let me go...I'd imagine it'll be that way for a while.
Oh Man...When can we go back??
(Ben says it would be rad if we cropped in an explosion behind us in the photo above...yes, I did just say rad)
I love my handsome boys. 
My first time seeing an iguana. I saw a ton of them!
Our first time on the beach.
Ah, soaking up some sun.
I love sandy feet!
Later that night we played ping pong and darts. I totally rock at darts! I was pretty proud of my almost bull's eye. (don't mind my hair, I did not do it the whole time I was there. I was just wet all the time.)
The beach after dinner. I could be at the beach 24/7
Monday, Day 2:
The 1000 columns. We had a two hour tour. It was SO freaking hot, but it was so awesome!
Can you believe the Mayan's built this with their hands?? It's amazing to me. We learned so much about it, it was like a history class...it was great!
We're the stuff!
Ben in front of the observatory. Again, I could not believe how much they knew about astronomy and math way back then!
After the tour we ate lunch and hand homemade corn tortillas made on a rock with our tacos. YUM! Then we drove to a Sink Hole. Is was amazing! It felt so good to swim in the cool water after the heat of the tour. We had to hold on tight to the rope and climb on down to swim. Sorry for the crappy picture. Those are tree roots that are just hanging there. It was so cool to swim there with the fish and the bats flying above our head.
At the sink hole we bought coconuts from a cute 10 year old boy. He chopped off the top of them with a machete and put a straw in them so we could drink the warm coconut milk. I was in Heaven!! And I am so sad I did not take a picture of it!
Overlooking the town square and the church from the City Hall.
Inside the church. It was beautiful!
Ben in front of the Town Square.
Ben trying to swim with the waves.
Oops, sideways.
