Cancun!!

Here we are up in the air parasailing!

Troy loved it!

Us at Chichen-Itza

A beautiful sunset!

Troy in his lush Ritz-Carlton robe, eating our room service dinner! yum..what a vacation! so spoiled!

In Cozumel eating lunch listening to the mariachi's..

On the pier in Cozumel after the ferry ride...ughhhh

This is at Xel-ha(Shell-ha) at the buffet eating...we had several pina coladas and strawberry daquiris...yum...BEERGIN of course ("virgin " being said by a mexican waiter)

Us at Xel-ha, it was so pretty!

Me in my robe relaxing in our room

The view off our balcony..it was so amazingly beautiful!

Ok, so here is the scoop!

Well, on Saturday, Nov 8 Troy and I left St. Louis to head to Cancun for a week. Troy went for a conference, and so we made it our annual trip away from the kids. My mom and dad stayed here with the kids. WE had a blast. Sunday we spent the day hanging out and relaxing, and Troy got started on the conference. Monday we got to go snorkling at Xel-ha..a neat natural aquarium place, it was great. We spent the whole day there, and it was all-inclusive. We got all the food and drinks we wanted..yum... We rode bikes, tubed down the river, snorkled, went in a mayan cave underground, hiked and had a great time. Tuesday we then got to go to Cozumel for a day trip and snorkle and saw tons of fish. Troy and I both got seasick on the ferry from cancun to cozumel..but we survived. We had to ride inside on the bottom, and it was yucky! Then the snorkling boat tour we went on was great, but we were sick there too. We snorkled and even got sick floating on the water. it was pretty rough because of the stinkin hurricane that had just went through. It was great though, there were soooo many fish, we even saw a big barracuda. We spent the rest of the day shopping and hanging out and then rode the ferry back to cancun that evening. We rode up top and it was alot better. A band was playing some music and it was fun. The next day, WEdnesday, we went to Chichen-Itza to see the Myan ruins. It was very interesting and really neat. We couldnt climb up the pyramids anymore, so that was a bummer. i guess some lady died in 2005, so they stopped the touring. We bought some cool souveniers there though. Thursday we spent the day hanging out and relaxing after 3 full crazy days. We swam and layed on the beach. We went parasailing, it was sooooo scary! Troy loved it, but it was terrifying for me. Friday we pretty much got ready to leave and headed home. it was a long day, we left the hotel at 9 am and got home to Centralia at 12:30 am. Long day! We had a 5 hour layover in Miami. It was a great time we got to spend together and celebrate our 16th Anniversary!! Wow we are getting old!! We ate tons of good food, saw tons of neat plaves and got to enjoy each other alone for a few days...what a treat! Thanks to mom and dad for staying here with our brats and taking care of them! WE had one day to get unpacked, do laundry and clean house to prepare for our other guests coming...Nic, CAsey and kids, and Brandon flew in Sunday afternoon. Next post...