From June 11 to June 19th, Terry, Chris, and I joined the high school Spanish teachers, 6 other great students and our friends John and Julie Vogl to tour Mexico. We LOVED it. We loved the Pyramids and other ruins, the history, the WARM beaches, the friendly people and our lovely tour guide Maria. We got a bit sick to our stomach and it felt like a hundred degrees hotter than home because of the humidity. We learned a greater appreciation for the USA. It was a great trip.

 

 

 

Mexico City 2009

 

 

Two things I didn't really like about Mexico!

 

 

 

Playa del Carmen

 

 

 

Beautiful, warm, Playa del Carmen Beach

 

 

 

Merida, Mexico! Becky helps a man make music on his award winning saw in the Merida town square. The LDS Merida Temple

 

The view from our motel in Villahermosa

 

 

My favorite City Campeche

 

 

 

San Juan de Ulua Fot and prison. The rooms here are so old they have stalagtites growing from the ceiling. The prison rooms here would make Alcatraz seem like a vacation spot.

 

We visited Cenote Xkeken, a natural well deep inside a subterranean cave where we went swimming with the bats and fishes.

 

 

Chris sleeps on a Mayan bed and we all visit a Mayan pool

 

 

Terry stands beside the back of a pyamid that has yet to be uncovered in Uxmal.

 

 

 

Chris and Becky swing on vines in the jungle of Palenque. Julie tries an "edible" termite.

 

 

Julie and I pose near some iguanas that visited all of the ruins with us.

 

 

Through our visit to Mexico we climbed over a thousand steps to get the top of pyramids in Teotihuacan, Uxmal and Palenque and visited Mayan ruins and pyramids in Chichen Itza and Tulum. Between Terry, Chris and I we took over a thousand photos too.The ruins almost all had religious temples and some kind of "tree of life" symbol. They were all fascinating, surrounded by beautiful scenery and fun walks with interesting tour guides.