Cancun Day 4

On the fourth day of our trip we went on a tour to Chichen Itza. We debated about this trip the whole week. We really wanted to go (plus Alex REALLY wanted to) but it was an all day bus trip. We figured it would be worth it.... but still over two hours of driving there and over two hours back just didn't seem exactly the way we wanted to spend our last full day in Mexico. In the end.... we decided that we HAD to go and I'm very glad we did.

Our first stop of the day was at a sink hole where you could go swimming. Since we were only there for a brief time, only Jeff and the kids went down to swim.

Here are the kids ready to jump in...
Alex getting ready to jump and Clara climbing out...
They probably would have been fine without life jackets but I was being paranoid overprotective mom that day and rented them life jackets.

Here's a view from the bottom up...
Our second stop was for lunch.

Here are a couple of shots of the dancers who entertained us during lunch....

The next stop was actually at Chichen Itza. I have to say... if you could look past the hundreds of people trying to sell you stuff and all of the tourists.... it was absolutely amazing.

We had a really good tour guide who did a fabulous job explaining the different structures to us.

This is from the ball court...
also from the ball court...
the observatory....
Alex in front of something :-) ....
the nunnery...
the kids in front of "El Castillo"....
the backside of the ball court...
the temple of the warriors (back) and the snake head from El Castillo (front right)....
the top of El Castillo....
Alex clapping in front of El Castillo....

If you stand in the right place in front of the pyramid and clap, the echo will come back as an almost birdlike sounding noise. It was really fascinating. Alex was obsessed with making it happen.

I wish I would have explored Chichen Itza more. However, it was so hot that day that we ran out of steam before we saw even a fraction of it.

Just a few more photos left!