Mexico Adventure Day 2

On day two we slept in late. How great is that! I love sleeping in!!!! It was a beautiful sunny day so we decided to go see some ruins. We got a taxi to take up to Playa del Carmen where we could catch the local bus to some ruins. Well Blake cut a deal with the taxi driver and he was our chauffeur for the day. I am pretty sure he got a sweet deal from us. It was awesome to know we had transportation waiting for us and we could take our time. We are not the big tour group type of people so we forged our own way in style. hehehehe not really. The first stop was Coba. Coba has the highest temple and has not been totally renovated so it is still all overgrown with jungle. I felt like an archeologist's seeing the ruins for the first time. A few key places had been cleaned up and we had fun climbing all over everything. Here is one of the ball courts that the mayans played in. This one had a carved skull in it. Owwwww scary i wonder who was sacrificed? Winner or Loser?

Then we totally dominated the temple. We scurried up to the top and had an amazing view.

We even encountered a lonely bat in the top temple room. It was pretty cool and entertaining to see people freak out because it was so high and steep.

Conquered!!!

After we conquered Coba we drove up the road a ways and stopped to see some alligators but you had to pay like $10 a person to just get on dock to see them. We were to cheap but we still got to see some from the road. That was good enough for us. Then we drove some more in a nice air conditioned car to Tulum. It is right on the ocean and beautiful. Everything was roped off so we couldn't climb on anything but it was still cool to walk around. This place was fully restored so to me was not as fun as Coba but it was prettier. Take a look at what i mean....

See the face carved in the corner of the building? Cool!!!!!!

This temple was aligned with the planets.

Just look at that water!!! It was amazing plus it was really hot to we hiked down to the beach and jumped in the water with our cloths on. Well we did have swimsuits on but no towels. Hey man air dry right? I had a black swim suit in so i was showing it off through my tan shorts. hehehe We stayed cool anyway. The cool thing about this place was that there were a ton of iguanas. Here is our little friend Enrique.

This day was a dream com true. I have always wanted to see some ruins! Good Job Blake. You scored big points. Well the taxi took up back to our hotel and we were super hungry. Good thing we made a reservation for the French restaurant. It was amazing and I don't think it was because we were hungry either. Super nice and delicious. After our tummies were happy we hung out on the beach digesting. It was an awesome day!!!