Hello Everyone. Karl and I threw this together so that we could finally share our pictures of Mexico with all of you. The pictures aren’t very edited, so please bear with the minimum quality. The pictures go in order according to our trip.

Chichen Itza : first of the many ruins we went to.

Pyramid in Chichen Itza . Cool fact for all those engineering geeks, this ancient city was acoustically designed to magnify sound from one area to another. This pyramid was also built so that on the two days of equinox, a shadow of a snake slides from the pinnacle down to the ground attracting around fifty thousand spectators, who view it as a religious event.

I was infatuated with the lizards. First of the many we would see while we were here.

Another picture of a ruin, but I liked this especially because of the skulls.

More ruins…

I’m ready for my high school picture! Me look Mexican!

And some more ruins…

Karl walking through one of the ruins. It had a low entrance which explains Karl’s

orge-ness.

Drinking with the locals in Piste. Karl made many friends here. The guy pictured behind him named Santiago was very touchy, feel-y with Karl- I couldn’t stop laughing at it. The guy taking our picture, Raymond, was really cool. Raymond was one of the few locals who actually made conversation with us. Most importantly, they had yummy drinks!

A little cat that liked me. I was sewing a button back on my pants, when this cat came up to me and laid down on my foot. How cute!!

Camping in Piste. We were actually camping on the grounds of a hotel.

This is the hotel's pool where we camped.

I took this picture while Karl and I were getting breakfast. An interesting story, we’re ordering our food and I ask the lady if she could cook eggs with ham. She says yes. As I’m taking this picture of the bicycle ice cream cart, I notice the woman that took our order crossing the street. I see that she goes into a little convenience store and comes out with a bag of ham in her hands. She went through all that work so that we wouldn't eat somewhere else.

Getting ready to leave Piste. Again, here’s my little friend.

I wanted to take her with me.

Karl tearing down the tent as I'm still playing with the kitty.

Our next stop, Merida . Merida is a huge city with a population of over a million people. It’s known for its architectural design.

It wasn’t until it was written in front of my face did I believe Karl when he told me not to flush paper down the toilet.

Karl taped our money (more than the five dollar bill you see) to the inside of his pants.

Center square of Merida . Every night there’s some kind of an social event that happens. We witnessed performances that included music and dancing. We also went to a music concert at the culture center; the style was traditional bolero music.

Taxi shuttle.

Picture of us while we’re waiting for the taxi to leave. We’re heading to the cenotes otherwise known as sink holes.

Karl and I are taking a bicycle taxi to the cenotes. Here’s a picture of a lady riding in one heading towards us. I felt bad for the guy who was giving us our ride since there was two of us.

To get to the actual cenotes, we had to take a horse drawn train. The man pictured here, is actually getting off to move the train tracks manually, so that we’re heading in the right direction.

It was a very dusty, bumpy ride.

This is a cenote, first of the three we would encounter. It’s amazing, the water is so blue. Note: this picture was not retouched and you can see how blue it is. Cenotes are caves that have been filled with water. Another story: I had some difficulties getting in the water. It was a bit intimidating since it was underground, dark, and the water was so deep, but once I finally decided to go in the water, I totally forgot about my fear, and turned into a fish.

Here’s us swimming. Nobody else was there, so the camera is set on a rock with the selftimer set.

Here’s a view looking down into the second cenote. This one required you to climb down a dangerous steel ladder, and if you fell, well, it’s just wasn’t a good idea.

Here’s the trusty ladder and it was a ways to the bottom.

This was the last cenote we went to. It was by far the darkest, because the entrance as you will see from the next picture was only a hole in the earth.

Here I am crawling out of the ground from the cenote. The ladder by the way was really slippery.

Back above land, we explore more ruins.

More ruins.

Karl’s high school picture.

View from another area of the ancient city. In the center of the of the picture you can see where they used to play ball, similar to soccer, but the ball was heavy and you had a smaller area to score points. Still, no hands were used. The goal area is the circle built off the wall.

Picture of us with a temple behind us.

Karl making hand puppets at me.

Here’s another view of the temple.

Water Break.

Near the courtyard.

Karl trying to put lotion on by himself.

And this is the results.

In Tulum we stayed in a cabana. Since it was so windy and sandy, we had to set up tent inside.

This is how sandy it got. I drew different pictures on the table throughout our stay there, this was the first.

View from the check in office\ restaurant. Our cabana is on the far right, right behind the one you see. The bathroom was located up here, so whenever I would have to use the bathroom, I would have to trek across the beach and up a bunch of stairs. That sort of sucked, especially after a few drinks.

More ruins. This was the only one they allowed you to climb.

Here we are at the top. I had to stop once on the way up to catch my breath.

If Karl were to turn around, you would be able to see that he’s half man, half lobster.

Here I am trying to fit myself for a coconut bra.

The End!!!!!!

I want to go back....