Kidless Trip to Cancun

I am FINALLY getting around to posting pictures from our trip to Cancun!  It's not like we've been back that long...only about uhhhhh, 3 weeks...  The past few weeks have been so insanely busy that I've barely had time to take a breath!

Nate and I left the girls with my incredibly sweet parents, who I'm sure didn't realize what they were really getting themselves into.  We stayed at the beautiful Excellence Playa Mujeres resort, just north of Cancun city.  We loved the resort and enjoyed getting some much needed R & R next to the pool and on the beach.

 One of the days we took a day trip out to Chichen Itza.  We stopped at the Cenote Ik Kil, or the “Sacred Blue Cenote.”  A cenote is a naturally formed water-filled sinkhole.  This particular cenote is perfectly round, 196 feet wide and about 130 feet deep.  The water is about 82 feet from the surface, which you reach by walking down a large stone stairway along the outer edge.  It was beautiful, with tree roots hanging down from the walls and edges of the sinkhole and beautiful clear blue water.

 Then we went on to see the ruins of Chichen Itza which were every bit as spectacular as I expected them to be!

On two of the other days we did some scuba diving.   Nathan and I went through a scuba certification program when we were engaged, but have never had the chance to scuba diving since!  We did a refresher course followed by a 30-foot dive the first day.  Then, on our second day of diving we did an 80-foot shipwreck dive and a 50-foot reef dive. 

The water was very choppy on the 2nd day of diving and a bunch of people got sea sick.  It’s amazing how calm the ocean is though, once you get below the surface!  The sea life was stunning and we enjoyed seeing lots of coral, angelfish, barracuda, a huge moray eel, and a variety of other things.

 It was a wonderful trip!  We were very sad to leave, but happy to be home with our girls again!