Cancun

Can you believe we have never taken a trip without our kids? Several months ago we began scheming, thinking, hoping we could go on a vacation together, just the two of us for a few days. One piece fell into place, then another, and another and we found ourselves planning a trip to Cancun, Mexico. Thanks to Chris's fine presenting skills he was asked to present at a meeting there. It just worked out that it was the same time we had been planning to take our little vacation anyway and what better way to go?
We stayed at the JW Marriott where the meeting was held. We were a little nervous about leaving our kids but knew they were in good hands (thanks, Rachel!). We left early Friday morning, and because of a delay in N.C., barely made our connecting flight to Mexico. We were greeted at the airport by a long, long, long line at customs. We waited for well over an hour to get through the gate and then had to wait in another long line after we got our luggage. Note to self: don't fly into Cancun on a Friday--lots of weekenders flying in. When we stepped out of the airport we were almost whisked away by the wind. I would say they were having tropical storm-like weather. As you can see by this picture it was pretty annoying but we were determined not to let that ruin our fun time.



Check out that beautiful blue water. Too bad we couldn't get in it! We tried a few times to go to the beach from our hotel but we were pelted with flying sand. We did go down long enough to notice all the sea shells. They weren't the kind we were used to, oysters and scallops and such. They were the big conch shells. There were so many you could choose from multiple almost-perfect shells. We brought one home to show the kids. One knocked into my ankle as I was walking in the water. Ouch!



Saturday we went on a tour of some Mayan ruins. We saw Coba and Tullum. Both were fascinating. Almost all the pictures we took were at these two sites.

Lots of iguanas at this place. We had to take a picture for Tristan. He likes iguanas for some reason.

Just a couple of honeymooners!

In front of one of the temples. Can you believe we climbed that thing?

We ate some good Mexican food, including fish tacos, fresh oranges with crushed chilies and the best fajitas I have ever had. The people were so nice and helpful and our accomodations were lovely.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our kids were having so much fun with Rachel they were almost sad to see us come back. They seemed more upset by Rachel leaving today than they were that we were going to be gone for five whole days! Hey, maybe we'll just take this as a sign that we can do this more often.