The last two days of our vacations

We are in Utah, having a great time! Here are the last two days of our vacation. Thursday, we did another excursion to the ruins at Coba and something called a Mayan encounter tour. I loved this day too. Actually, the whole vacation was awesome, we weren't ready to come home on Saturday.

This is one of the pyramids at Coba. We were able to climb this. It was pretty steep.

Funny little skull.

The view from the top.

Heading back down. You can kind of tell how steep it was.

A smaller ball court. Coba and Chichen-itza had these amazing roads. They were 60+ miles long. They were perfectly level and straight the entire way, through the unlevel jungle.

If you look through the trees, you can see a mound of stone. Supposively, about 85% (??) of Coba is like this, untouched. It was another big city- I think about 40 square miles. It would be awesome to excavate these.

This is the side of another pyramid. The jungle grew right over it. This is sort of what Chichen- itza (the famous pyramid) looked like, before they cleared all of the trees etc away. After these ruins we headed to a cenote. This was so fun and so refreshing after hiking around. Once again, these pictures don't do it justice- they just look dark. Ross looks like he has two ladies.

There were two jumping platforms off of the staircase. My camera was too slow to catch Thayne jumping. Crystal caught this picture of Rich though.

After the ruins we headed to land that is sanctioned for the Mayan people of today. They fed us a real Mayan lunch. They were really sweet people. They are a very small people. These ladies were all under 5 feet. Interesting side note, the true Mayan men do not grow facial hair. That is why carvings of a bearded God (Christ) are so interesting.

Hiking through the Jungle, where we saw monkeys in the trees.


Canoeing across the Lake.

Repelling down the cliff.

Ziplining over alligator infested water. Ok- that just sounded cool. I think they said there were baby sized alligators in this water, but they wouldn't hurt you. What a fun day! Friday we relaxed at the beach and pool. We went to a karaoke night at the resort where Ross sang in front of a ton of people. Angela was supposed to sing, but somehow they skipped her name.

Crystal took this one. I thought this was a cool picture. Whenever we went to a touristy type shopping area, there would be people like this dressed up in some really cool costumes.

Back home with my fabulous children. I wanted to post this because my girls are wearing their souvenirs. These are handmade Mayan dresses. Each of those embroidered flowers and edging were done by hand. They only cost $10.