The Turner Family

On one of the days in Mexico, Kevin and I took an excursion to Chichen Itza, one of the modern 7 Wonders of the World. Our tour guide was very funny and since he was part Mayan he knew so much about the Mayan ruins and took pride in his history. There were pyramids, palaces, temples, ball courts and hundreds of Mexicans trying to sell us their wares. It was about 95 degrees with 100% humidity… it was pretty warm. We both would recommend taking the few hours to see this place if you are ever in the area.

One of the stops was at a cenote, basically a huge hole that has collected water. It was at least 100 feet to the water surface, then they estimate the depth of the water to be about 150 feet! Needless to say, we had to tread water the whole time. There were also small black fish that wouldn’t move away from the ladder when I tried to get it. Kinda disturbing!

Kevin and I recently visited Mexico with good friends Luke & Stephanie Timmons and Mark & Anne Gould. We were in the Cancun area, more specifically, Riviera Maya which is between Playa Del Carmen and Cancun. It was beautiful and wonderfully relaxing! We arrived on Sunday October 28th and flew home on Sunday November 4th. The pictures we took (which total over 200) don’t do the places we visited much justice, so to get a real idea of what it was like, we’d recommend taking the trip yourselves! It was definitely worth it!

The hotel pool was huge! It was 3 tiered with small tiled waterfalls connecting them. You could start in one, slide over the waterfalls and end in completely different area. Each pool was probably 75-100 yards long and about 3.5 feet deep. The temperature was also perfect! Us preggos didn’t care so much, but 2 of the 3 pools had a swim up bar. If you look closely, just beyond the pool was the beach. It was great, too much chlorine and you could take a dip in the salt water and lay on the white sand beach. I think this is what Heaven will be like for me.

The group all together on the beach in Isla Mujeres. Isn’t it beautiful!?

Panorama of the beach  in Isla Mujeres

The “boys” looking for some waves to fight. Good luck!

Looks like they won that fight! What studly looking men!

The girls soaking up the beauty around us! And maybe a few of the sun’s rays while we are at it!

On the trolley to our “fancy” dinner night. 3 beautiful women! What lucky guys…

The group finally at dinner at Trabuto. Yummy!

See… still pregnant! I’m about 6 months along at this point.

Beautiful sunset

“And your punishment for trying to make two pregnant women dance!”

Thank you all for voting on when you think Braden will enter this world, but I hope (as the mother) that this little guy is going to side with the majority vote and be early! And for those of you that think he’ll be late, I hope you are wrong!

Video: Roxy in booties
 

Because our sweet little girl licks her feet till they become raw and bleed, Kevin and I thought we’d try to put booties on her, so she couldn’t lick. But as you can see in the video (follow link at the top of this blog), she clearly HATED them! She didn’t want to move, and when she did it was spastic and frankly, hilarious!! We couldn’t stop laughing! We think she has an allergy to something that hits during late fall/early winter. We only had them on for one night and decided that since she was so miserable, we would take them off. But I guess that was enough of an incentive for her to stop licking all together! She’s so scared that we might put them back on that she doesn’t lick! So I guess in a round-about way they worked!

Doesn’t she look so sad!