Mxican Honeymoon: Day 7

Day 7: Saturday

Saturday was one of the funnest days! It was definitely the best included tour!!! FO SHO! I didn't really feel like going in the morning but I knew I would regret it if I didn't get to see ANY Mayan ruins! So, we boarded the bus for the kinda longish ride to Tulum!!!

First, they stopped at some half way mark to let us go to the bathroom and shop at this little local store. They had some AWESOME stuff. It was all pretty expensive though, because I'm sure mainly tourists go there...on their way to Tulum. Chase and I didn't have much money left at this point so I got a silver necklace that says "Norton" in mayan script (hopefully) and we bought a hammock!! (yes, it fits on our balcony!! ha!)

Then we loaded back on to the bus and went to THE RUINS (did anyone see that movie or read the book...creepy!)

It was really hot and really beautiful and really...ancient looking... :) That's really all there is to say about it...the pictures sort of speak for themselves. And if you're thinking "wow, there are a lot of pictures!" Don't even ask how many I left out haha!

After Tulum we went to another palace resort, of course. But this was the coolest one of all!!! It had a zoo-type-deal in it!! it was obviously huge and you had to walk down these long roads to get anywhere it seemed like but on the sides of the road there were all sorts of awesome animals!!!! We didn't get to see all of them because we ran out of time. This was the one palace resort where we didn't have enough time. We ate and then we got to go snorkeling (for FREE) and we could have gone kayaking too but we ran out of time for that too. :( It was really really fun!!

PS
the pictures are out of order (last pictures first and vice versa).

The flamingos matched my swim suit!



yes, Chase took my life jacket! I kept telling him but it's hard to communicate through snorkels.


yes, I kow this is gross but I had to show it. It's AMAZING! Someone wring me out!


This is the fertility temple. "Very good for honeymooners!" as the guide kept saying. haha!


There is a face on the corner! see it?


This was our FAVORITE tour guide. He was so mellow compared to all the "party captains." He joked but it was really dry and I LOVE that kinda stuff!


I think we were fake laughing...can you tell?

Mexican Honeymoon: Day 6

Day 6: Friday

So, by the end of the week we were VERY tired. It's exhausting have fun for 8 hours a day in the hot hot sun! haha!

We were scheduled to go to Chichen Itza this day but we, once AGAIN, missed our bus (maybe subconciously on purpose) due to over sleeping. So we went back to the room and laid down and didn't get up...AAAALLLLL DAAAAAAY LOOOOONNGG! The room had HBO so we watched movies all day. We kept the curtains open so we could look over and see the ocean whenever we so chose though. :) We ordered room service for all 3 meals and had a completely, utterly, epitomy of a lazy day lazy day! It was wonderful! I'm glad we took a day to do that. If I ever took a day to lay down and watch movies and that is literally all I did all day while I was at home I would feel SO extremely guilty and anxious. Not in mexico though! :D

We were feeling kind of sick this day too. An all day siesta was needed.

Mexican Honeymoon: Day 5

Day 5: Thursday



I canNOT, for the life of me, remember what we did on Thursday!! I obviously mixed something up because I only have one more day of pictures left to post...oh well! We did something fun I'm sure! haha!



OH WAIT! I remember!!! Der! We went and swam with the dolphins this day!!!! Fun stuff! (I have a hard time remembering because I didn't take any pictures and Chase didn't get any video.) Chase couldn't bring his water proof camera because they said it would scare the dolphins and I didn't bring my camera because...it's not water proof. SO, we did buy a DVD and a picture of each of us with the dolphins but I will have to scan them to get them on here. I'll do that some day :)

So, we got to do this exciting activity at this "big" waterpark called Wet'n'Wild! it looked a lot like Raging Waters. Wave pool and everything. But Raging Waters doesn't have swimming with the dolpins...does it?

We swam with the dolphins, which intailed learning some actions that get them to do tricks and touching them as they swam by us and they gave us kisses and "high fives" and dragged us back to our stand from the middle of the pool! It was pretty rockin...maybe I could get some of the DVD on here too... We spent a lot of money for the pictures and DVD...the pictures were worth it I think but the DVD is kinda...well, crap. It's okay, it's the memories that count right?

After the swim with the dolphins we got to hang out at the water park. They are part of the palace resorts so we got free lunch. Chase went on this ride that was like being flushed. It looked funny...not fun...funny. And we swam around in the lazy river a bit and then we got some FREE ice cream...FREE ICE CREAM!! and then we hung out in the gift shop adn then we went back to the hotel. And I assume we went to dinner or something later but I really cannot remember...odd...