At the beginning of January we got to enjoy a free trip to Cancun because Jose
ph sold more the second half of his summer than the first. It was beautiful and warm, of course.
It was a short trip but oh so sweet. This picture is of our resort which, as you can see, was beautiful and relaxing. The first day we were there we traveled to the Chichen itza ruins. It took like 6 hours to drive there but it was totally worth the trip.
So once you arrive you walk through jungle and trees and out of no where appears this great temple. It is beautiful! I was a little sad though because they don't let you walk on the temple anymore, we missed it by 3 years.
Next
to this temple there is a great field where they would spend their lives training and practicing to play someday. You have to hit a ball through that hoop with your shoulder or hip to make points. Its crazy!
The worst part is that the losers of the game are sacrificed and the winners are consider to now be gods.
It was all fun to learn about, Joseph was my own little tour guide. He was telling me about all of the buildings and the games and I didn't get why he knew all of this and I didn't. "There was a documentary on the history channel about all of this." I think he enjoyed it a little more than I did.
Here is us with all of our APX friends ha ha, Rick and Leah, Jake and Ashley, Me and Joseph, and Sandra and Steve. Rick was Joseph's manager last year and is now his regional manager and Steve is Joseph's Co-Manager this year.
So before we left we met this 18 year old who was selling things to provide for his family (mother and little siblings), it is fun to listen to joseph speak spanish. I am grateful that he can because I feel like they look at me and expect me to be the one to speak and are surprised when he can speak perfectly and I am the one struggling.
Here is a fun video with a ruin that we both agreed looked like it belonged in Jungle book :)
After seeing all of the ruins they took us to this amazing sink hole where they had stairs down to and an area you could climb up to, to cliff jump.
It was a lot of fun and not at all what I expected. I have another video, but Joseph scared me on this one.
Continuing on our first day we made it to a restaurant with the tour bus and once we finished our meals Joseph and I decided to go and walk around the real villages of Mexico instead of sitting and watching the dances. Thanks to spanish immersion I was apart of those dance perfomances.
We stopped for a drink at a restaurant and found a bunch of guys playing volleyball, They were
really bad haha.
We thought of joining them, but got distracted by the cute little kids trying to sell us the things their parents made. We didn't have money to give them but we remembered I had packed tons of gummies in my back pack.
It was a surprise to me when we got them all together to give them treats. They immediately started arguing and fighting for certain treats. When we pulled out our little cereal boxes, some of them wouldn't accept the gummies because they would only wanted the cereal. It was odd for me to see. The little girl in the green shorts nudged her brother when he wouldn't take the gummy and told him to take it. It was fun to interact with the natives.
We then made our long drive home. It was a long day, but full of new things to see.
I am sad, but I dont have pictures of our second day. We rented these little 2 men speed boats and drove through the jungle until we made it to a popular place to go snorkling. We saw prettier
fish in Cabo on our honeymoon, but joseph still made it fun. We aren't allowed to feed the fish, but that doesnt stop joseph and his corn pops in his swim suit pocket. These fish are so used to people around them so it was scary to have them pretty much attacking you for food. I think joseph got bit 3 times ha ha. He also freaked out this group of 3 girls who didn't want to snorkle or something. He made sure to leave a ton of food right where they were. They were screaming like they were being eaten alive and you could here joseph snickering out of his little snorkle still under water being all sneaky ha ha.
Our last day was our beach day! Joseph and the guys still went swimming every night because
the water was so warm. They made up games to play, but before getting in the water Joseph told them to try going
under the water, and closing your eyes and imagine a huge shark coming at you with its mouth open. Apparently you are supposed to see how long you can stay under the water. That made it a little less appealing for me to go swimming when I couldn't see anything.
I don't know why, but I don't have any pictures of us on the beach, oh well, It was a great Trip!
his entry screaming and yelling when he came in :)
Alec's Jump (I only got one because I took pictures of his jumps with his camera)
It was snowing while we drove up to Sandro's Cabin so we knew the snow was going to be perfect.
