Well all good things must have a bad day, and this day on our honeymoon was by far the worst day we were here! At least we got to spend it with the one we love right? So we had booked our day to go on a tour to the Mayan ruins called Chichen Itza. We were told they would pick us up from our hotel we would drive 2 hours to the ruins, stop eat lunch, explore this old town with cool churches and then return home by seven. This is completely not how our day went. They did pick us up on time and then we sat on a bus for 5 hours until we got to the ruins. Once we got there they were amazing until they told us we only had an hour to look around. There were so many buildings to look at, an hour was not nearly enough time. But this is what we got to look at and I will try my hardest to share with everyone what we learned about them.

This building was their main building and had a step for everyday of the year. On one day every so many year the sun aligns shadows on the edge of the stairs to look like a snake slithering down. They used to let people climb up the steps but they don't let you anymore.

This building was used to sacrifice people. If your birthday was between August 6-10 you were considered a god and would be sacrificed. The little guy that you can see at the top is where they would put the heart to offer up.

These towers are believed by the LDS religion to be made for the 2000 stripling warriors because there are exactly 2000 of them.

This is where they would play a game kind of like basketball and each team would have to try and get the ball through this little hole and they could not use their hands or feet. The captain of the winning team would chop off the head of the captain of the loosing team. While we were walking around looking at all of this cool stuff it was pouring rain and we were soaking wet!

This is a well at the end of the road and I am not really quite sure why it was there. Probably just for water. After we left here and were soaking wet they told us they were taking us to some swimming hole for 20 minutes. We were not planning on this so we did not bring our swim stuff and we had still not been fed yet! We were starving!

I wish we could have swam here cause this was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to! After this they finally fed us! YAY! Then we stopped in this little old town that was famous for its old beautiful churches. This is the only church we got to see cause they gave us 10 minutes when we got of the bus to get back on.

When we got back on the bus it was about 630 pm and we still had a three hour drive back to where we were staying. We were still wet from the rain, freezing cold and hungry. When we finally got into town they started dropping people off of our huge bus at each of their hotels, which took hours! And of course just our luck we ended up being the very last ones to get dropped off!  About 5 miles before our hotel our bus blew a tire, and we barely made it into the entrance of our place. We were so exhausted from our day we got back to the room and ordered room service and then slept in the next day until noon.

On our last night there the weather was very rainy and the wind was blowing pretty hard. We just had a relaxing day and went down to the beach and layed under a cabana and watched the lighting storm over the ocean. It was amazing. And then when we got back to our room we had these two giant moth friends that wanted to join us. They did not even move when we opened the door. This was the best honeymoon a girl could ask for! I am so lucky to have married such an amazing man that takes such good care of me:)

HoneyMoon Day 4

When Jared and I had decided that we were going to go to Mexico for our honeymoon I made him promise me that we could go swimming with the dolphins. And like the great husband that he is he kept his promise and made my dream of swimming with dolphins come true! It was one of the most amazing things I have ever done and I had a total blast. I think the pictures can speak for themselves and you can see what a great time we had! Best day of my honeymoon no doubt about it!

We first swam with this cute dolphin in her pool and she showed us all of her tricks and we got to tell her to do some ourselves. These are some of the things we did with her:)

And then after we played with her for a while we got into another pool with these other two dolphins and got to ride across the pool on their noses. You have to lay in the water on your stomach and just wait for them to come behind you and get under your feet and take you for the best ride of your life!

Everyone asks why I am so much further out of the water than Jared and it is because I accidentally stood up on them when you were just supposed to let them push you across the and lay in the water. Woops! I went first and then Jared went and he said that our instructor lady was yelling at me!

Of course Jared had to show off his muscles! Haha After we got done with the dolphins we went snorkeling. The place we were at was so cool they had buffets all over and you could swim and snorkel and then get out of the water and eat a little bit, and then get in the water and play some more. We had a blast!

 This was Jared's first time snorkeling and I had a good laugh when he went too far under the water and sucked salt water up his tube! I remember when I went for my first time and did the same thing. After we were done snorkeling we walked up the trail grabbed a snack and then hopped on a two person inner tube and took a float down the river. There were so many things to stop and do along the way down.

We first had to go through this tunnel of these cool entwined vine looking branches. It was really cool looking, it is hard to see it very good in these pictures. Our first stop was to get off our tube and ride a zip line down into the water. So fun!

Jared had so much fun snorkeling he could not stand to just sit one the tube and relax. He wanted to be in the water looking at all the fish. So this is how we went the rest of the way down the river.

Our next stop down the river was at this cliff that you could jump off. I was not so adventerous to try this one but Jared did jump off. It is hard to see him with the glare from the sun.

When we were done on the river we got off on another trail to go and see the manatees. On the way we got some bright red slushies that colored our tounges.

On the way we saw these odd looking creatures eating through the trees and then we stopped to see the manatees in their little cove.

This was one of the funnest days I have ever had with Jared!