Ok,
First off I want to congratulate Dan on his Fantastic, and burly beard!! Deena on being able to walk all over the the Yukatan, and Quintana Roo while pregnant. Angie for being able to speak spanish and her graceful bike riding skills at Coba, and i would like to thank myself for my appropriate sombrero!! What a cool trip this was, we decided to spend almost all of our time at different mayan ruins, Tulum, Coba, Chichen Itza, and some other smatterings of places that showed up. They were neat. We saw an actual 'ball game' get played at Xcaret (complete with fire). Got a ritualistic Prayer given to us by an authentic Mayan decendant around a flowering alter holding a smoking challace of tree resin, swam in at least 3 different cenote's, the one that Dan is diving in has no bottom!! Repelled down an over hanging cliff, zip lined the same area, kayaked a crocodile infested lake (we didn't see the crocodiles but were made absolutely certain that they live in it.) Had a mormon perspective guided tour of two of the ruins, which was facinating. meandered around Cancun, and went deep into authentic mexican villages where most people live in delapadated ruins themselves, there are dogs everywhere.
things i learned.
1 how anybody could not believe the book of mormon after studying it, and those lands I cannot understand
2 it is hot! muggy! no wonder the lamanites took to wearing nothing but loin cloths and shorn heads!
3. lots of mosquitos, i can't understand how the lamenites could wear nothing but loin cloths and shorn heads!!
4. every herb or plant a person would need to survive grows there!!
5. it is hot!
6. it must have been crazy coming up with the stones to build these buildings.
7. the Yukatan is flatter than the great planes and any mound you see is a ruin that hasn't been excavated yet!
8. the locals will try any means possible to get you into their stores!
9. i wouldn't want to win any sport they played back then!
10. if you want to intimidate any rival tribe or group just build a wall around your city with skulls carved on it of every major leader you ever killed in battle, and have it be huge and completely filled with skulls...(chichen itza)
all in all it was a great time and thanks to mom and dad for watching our kids while we were gone!! now, some peace and quiet.....then Italy!
5 comments:
Wow. Love the pictures. They look straight our of a national geographic. Sounds like the climate was a shocker. It is amazing how people can live in such crazy conditions! Glad you are home safe. It is great to go make memories!
Great pics! Looks like alot of fun! Annie and I have pictures in the same places. WE have a great one of us jumping into the Cenote that Dan is shown diving into (Annie dove into it, and tweeked her neck and was sore for at least a day) What a fun thing for the four of you to do. I too remember hot! I couldn't stand to wear pants when we went out. Cant wait to hear more about your adventures. Did you dive at all?
Jake
Wow!! That all looks amazing! I was so glad to watch your kids ...Love em! And so glad that you got the chance to go and see such neat things. Glad that dangie could go with you. Love you all mom
Look at all the cool history you get to touch this year!!
I am so jealous. Though I despise heat and misquitos, I would love to see those places in person. It seems like you are standing in front of great backdrops--hard to imagine being in front of the real thing! So cool!
I think the was the mosquitos that had to worry about the lamanites sucking THEIR blood.
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