Our trip to Mexico

We got back from Mexico yesterday - we stayed for a week at the Mayan Palace resort about halfway between Cancun and Playa del Carmen. It was beautiful and the weather was fantastic! It was about 82 degrees and sunny the entire time. When we got off the plane yesterday it was 18 degrees in Minneapolis...with 10 inches of fresh snow on the ground. Ahhh, Mexico, we miss you already.

Jeremy taking a walk along the beach.

Evan's word of the week? "Ahh-daa!" In English: "All done!" Here Evan is telling me he is "all done" burying Momma's feet in the sand.

(Papa, you like the shirt? We made sure to represent Columbia while we were in Mexico.)


Evan turning on the charm with Daddy's hat.

On Tuesday we took a trip to Chichen Itza to see the ruins. It was amazing. Our tour guide was Mayan, and had a completely different perspective than what I learned in my archaeology classes in college. I won't bore you with the details, but if your curious ask me about it sometime.

Before Chichen Itza we stopped at the Blue Cenote. It used to be a giant underground cave filled with water, but the top caved in and now it is a beautiful 180-foot deep pool of water. Jeremy jumped off the diving platform (about 20 feet up) twice. The second time water shot into his ear and he couldn't hear out of it for the rest of the trip. Fortunately, Emily got two great pictures of him jumping in with the underwater camera - unfortunately they didn't develop. Just our luck.

Evan lounging by the ocean.

Everyone knows that Evan is a charmer - on vacation he would pick out the prettiest lady wherever we went and strike up a "conversation." This one was from Venezuela.

Jeremy in a hammock on the beach at night.

Family photo op.

We saw wild iguanas everywhere we went. This little guy was hanging out by the pool.

What were you doing Friday afternoon? We were at the pool bar sipping pina coladas.

Even Evan had one! (With no rum, of course.)

Jeremy with a BIG Agave plant (what they use to make tequila.) At first we thought it was an aloe plant and cut a bit off to put on our sunburns...I'm totally kidding.

"Look Daddy!"

It was unnerving today to go to Wal-Mart and see all of these plants in their greenhouse...they looked much better in Mexico under the natural sunlight with the sound of the waves crashing on the shore behind them.