Cancun Baby!

For our honeymoon, we went to Cancun and then went to Washington DC for another reception with Mark's family. Both places were so awesome!!! Cancun was a blast. We did not rent a car so we were able to walk to a lot of places and experience the bus system, which was HILARIOUS! In the US, they usually tell you the stops that are coming up and/or post a sign that says what is coming up. NO, not in Cancun. Both of us did not know Spanish either. Need I say more :) Here is the view from our hotel room!! It was gorgeous! The pool that you can see there was so amazing...it went to the edge and then dropped off into the ocean. We went to the Interactive Aquarium and it was fun to see all these animals close up. We could even touch a lot of them. This picture does not even give the experience justice. We had dinner at some really exciting places. We had dinner at this nice restaurant and we could look out into the ocean. The waiter poured our drinks by holding the can on the palm of his hand and wasn't using fingers!! It was suctioned on or something...WEIRD. We also ate dinner on a pirates ship. We sailed off into the ocean and the food was divine and while we ate, there was this whole pirate show going on. We then joined another boat and had a war. It was soooooooooooo cool!!!

We also did some excursions. We did a Chichen itza and a Jungle Tour. This is a picture of Chichen itza. I am always so impressed by the architecture of things built so long ago. Each part of the pyramid was designed for a specific reason. The number of steps, the direction of each side/corner, and the echo of things. There were lots of buildings but this was the biggest and most well known.

This picture was taken in the middle of this big field. That circle that you can see in the picture is part of this ancient game that they used to play. It was cool learning about it. I guess there were two teams and you had to throw or kick, or something impossible, into that little hole clear up on the wall. The winner would be sacrificed because they wanted to send the best offers to the Gods. Anyone want to play?? I'll even let you WIN :)
I know...this is a very flattering picture :) Another excursion that we did was this jungle tour. We were able to drive our own boats through the jungle and then we parked it in the middle of the ocean and went snorkeling!! I was scared we would be eaten by sharks, and we did see some HUGE fish but nothing that could eat us. It was sooooo beautiful.

In Cancun, you have to bargain for all your little trinkets and souvenirs. We found out that Mark and I are not that great at bargaining either. We would just look at each other and wouldn't know how to tell them that we didn't want it. Finally, we would just speed walk passed people and try to not look at anyone. It was awesome and we did end up coming home with really cool things.

One last thing before I bore everyone to death. Every morning we had breakfast at the hotel, which, by the way, was AMAZING!!! There were yummy cream cheese roll things that we ate like 50 every morning :). Before breakfast one morning, we realized that we didn't have enough money to tip, so we walked down the street to a store to pull some cash out of an ATM machine. So, we put the card into the machine and obviously the machine is in Spanish and we don't know what it says. So we kinda figure out what we are doing but then we finished and NO MONEY and NO CARD came out of the machine. We realized then, that the machine ATE our CARD!! We tried to get people to help but we didn't know what they were saying and they had us call someone, who also spoke Spanish. Needless to say, there is a machine in Cancun with our debit card :)

P.S. It is not cheap to text from Cancun to the US either.