| November 26, 2006 |
| Snow Day |
| So last night when the snow first started falling, we realized that we hadn't outfitted the kids for winter yet. So off we went to the store and got the gear. We had a blast playing in the snow. Katie especially liked playing with our snowman (though it looks more like a snow pile) and Jordan was mixing stuff (yeah, I don't know what he was doing either). On the side board of this site I've added a link to our flickr account (essentially an online photo album) so that you can peruse pics of our kids at your leisure. There's also pictures from Mexico. I'll add more pictures as I have some time (the final project of my courses is due Tuesday). |
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| November 20, 2006 |
| We're Back!! |
After a very long day and night of travelling (our flight was delayed 6 hours), we're back in the land of never ending rain. I haven't gone to sleep yet as we didn't get home until 5:30 am and knew the kids would be up soon. We could have slept in Richmond for a bit, but I was anxious to get home to my babies.
Our trip was wonderful! Beautiful beaches, amazing mayan ruins, friendly people, hot sun and lots of relaxing. The resort we stayed at was huge. We were there for 3 days before we even went to the other 3 lobbies and even then we never did see the whole resort. We did two tours: the Coba ruins and Xel-Ha/Tulum.
The Coba temple was amazing. It was 128 steps high (very steep steps too) and believe it or not, I climbed to the top. Of course, about half way up I remembered that I'm afraid of heights. Not a good time to make that realization. Oh well, there wasn't much I could do, but go to the top and then come back down. After the ruins, we went to this amazing sinkhole for a cool down swim. There were stalagtighs/mights that were like 9 million years old. Our guide Jorge, was great and was of Mayan decent. We visited a Mayan village which was pretty neat. I thought it would be uncomfortable wandering through peoples homes, but in their culture, they would have been insulted had we not visited. It was very interesting.
Xel-Ha was pretty cool too, sort of an ecological theme park. There's snorkling, a floating village and drifting down the river in inner tubes. We spent most of the day there and it wasn't nearly enough time. We went as part of the tour, but if we were to go again, we'd just take a cab and do it ourselves. Had our picture taken with parrots and got a little drunk. Almost missed our bus due to a lovely nap in a hammock.
After Xel-Ha our bus took us to the Tulum ruins. Coba was neat with it's huge temple, but Tulum was facinating as it was a trading port city with lighthouses, a temple and palaces. The ruins themselves were worth seeing, but our guide was horrendous, rude and lecturing. He almost ruined the whole tour.
We also took a cab to the Akumul beach for a brief appearance on a webcam there for the entertainment of friends back home. Felt pretty self-conscious, but was fun to do anyway. After ward we went to Playa del Carmen for some shopping. Lots of stores and everyone is trying to convince you to visit their store. Bought some fun stuff. |
| posted by Krista @ 8:42 PM |
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| November 04, 2006 |
| Oops |
I didn't realize how long it's been since I've updated this blog. Sorry everyone!
Let see, what's been happening...
Halloween was great. Jordan was a dinosaur and Katie was a zebra. Very cute. Daddy took the out trick or treating and they had a lot of fun and got some great loot.
 
We went to the pumpkin patch as part of field trip with Jordan's preschool. It was Katie's and Mellicent's first trip to a pumpkin patch and was a lot of fun.
Jordan has been taking riding lessons and is doing really well. Here's a video of him trotting...
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Scott and I head to Mexico on Friday morning! We're very very excited. Grandma Jo is going to stay with the kids. We'll be gone for a week.
We're staying here: Gran Bahia Principe Tulum
Katie got her first official haircut today. Someone trimmed her bangs for her and it wasn't pretty, so we took her to the hair salon. Sandi was wonderful and did a great job. Katie wasn't too sure at first, but loved the sparkles Sandi put in at the end.
I'll try to post some pictures to go along with this post later tonight. |
| posted by Krista @ 3:22 PM |
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