What I Did on Spring Break

Left 5 inches of new snow to go to Cancun.

Lifted off at 7am Tuesday morning for sunnier climes.Ran the gauntlet of official "tourist advisor's" but not without casualty.
(Another story for another day.)

Arrived at our lovely hotel.

Check out the white beaches and aqua water....

After we checked out the beach we grabbed something to eat. Delicious fajitas

Drank slushy drinks.
(Actually, these are desserts - payapa mousse and coconut cake- but we didn't take any pictures of the drinks and the desserts look like drinks.)

Coconut shrimp! YUM!!!
(Ok, we didn't eat all that food the first night. These are pics from the entire stay.)

Slathered on sun screen – got burned anyway.
Laid around a fair amount.

Read 4 complete books! Not an audio one amongst them.

This is a "sinkhole" that we stopped at before we went to the ruins. It is something like 80 ft. from the rim to the water. Those are tree roots going from the surface down to the water. Though we had our suits we opted not to jump in as we only had 40 minutes total at the stop.

Check out the little dancer that entertained us during lunch. She started with one bottle on her head, and worked her way up to the bottle, glasses and tray you see her sporting here.

Went to the Mayan ruins and took many photos.
The temple.
(Look! I got a shot without tourists! I know. I'm special.)

This was the observatory. Apparently they were all about the stars and signs. I really liked this particular set of ruins and took a BUNCH of pictures.

This is a building at one end of the ballfield.

Here's the hoop about 20 feet off the ground where players had to get the "ball" through with their hip, shoulder, head or feet. The ball was about the size of a basketball (maybe slightly smaller) and the hoop is quite a bit smaller than a basketball hoop. 14 people started out. At the end one person was declared "it" and got their head lopped off.
Takes the meaning of playing to win to a new level eh?

One of the many serpent heads on the corners of buildings and the ends of stairs.

Space between the palace and two out buildings with nifty corner details.

Practiced my Spanish and haggled with vendors. This little lady was maybe 4 feet tall.
Selling little handkerchiefs for one dollar, one dollar...

Ate some more DE- light- ful food! The best meals we had were at the hotel. This little lady,Candita made some of the best Italian pasta either of us have ever had.

All in all we had a MARVELOUS time. Charlie and I were together 24-7 and it was grand!
Took less photos overall than usual, but still got PLENTY. I guess WAS on vacation.

Then we got up at 4am to start out trip home. Spent 21 hours getting back to SLC. We had MANY delays. USAirways is NOT on my list of favorites at the moment.
Came back to, you guessed it ANOTHER snow storm!


We got back in time for Lincoln's blessing. And that's what I'll be posting about next...
This was WAY too long. But, doesn't even scratch the surface of the pics I took.
Consider yourself lucky,eh?