Tuesday, September 29th - Chichen Itza (Mayan Ruins)

Happy Anniversary!! It's been two years since we took the plunge and became one.

Today we ventured out to Chichen Itza, it's about two hours from our resort. On the way out it started raining, and most of you know what happens to me when it starts to rain while I'm in a vehicle! If you don't be thankful you haven't had to see it first hand! We made it through the rain (just barely) and then stopped at this run down gift shop. I have never seen such poor living conditions, I'm sure there are worse, but this was truly an eye opener for me. There were starving dogs
everywhere. :(



We learned about the Mayan people and how smart they were. They strategically built all of these temples. There is one that you can clap from the ground and at the top of the temple you hear the clap's echo is a bird, i guess the sacred bird.

There's also a temple that every April 6th, (jesus's birthday) the sun sits in between the two posts and it looks as though the little guy in the middle of the posts is holding the sun.



Here is what Jeff and I looked like only HALF WAY though the tour!!!! It was SCORCHING HOT!! We all had sweat dripping from our bodies.



After the ruins, we headed to our next stop, the "cenote". It's a sink hole in the earth with water in it, the group swam here for a little bit and Russ even jumped from a really really high spot that no one else was allowed to jump from, he payed 50 pesos to do it.



After the "cenote", we made our last stop in Colonial Town. I made friends with these cute kids and met some LDS missionaries.