Have a Very Merry Beachmas... *singing*

So it's Christmas in Cancun for me.  I would be on the beach but the clouds rolled in and it's windy.  So I'll catch up on my bloggin' a bit...

Cancun:

Day 5 - Long day.  Woke up early and left for Tulum/Xel-Ha.  Got to see the ruins at Tulum which used to be called something else, i don't remember what.  It was really cool, lots of iguanas.  The best part was learning the history though.  Like Mayans did not sacrifice as much as Mel Gibson says, there weren't enough of them, you'd run out of people.  They also did not sacrifice commoners.  To please the gods they wants to give the best of the best, you don't give gods a cheap offering, so it would usually be upper class who would have to prove worth for sacrifice by not eating for a week to purify the body and drinking nothing but a week alchoholic drink, this also meant by the time of sacrifice they wouldn't feel anything.  They would do it for instance like this: a father has a daughter and a son and the son gets sick, so the father wants to sacrifice his life to the gods to try and save his son.  The guide said Mel Gibson's movie had good language and make-up but absolutely no information about the mayan people.  They were great astronomers and the like, and the movie was WAY gorier than reality.  Pretty coo stuff.  It was also very hot and sweaty.

Then we went onto Xel-Ha which is like a big water park where you can swim with dolphins and do lots of other things, it also has the largest underwater aquarium, because it's out in the open and you just get snorkel gear and then hop in and swim around looking at fish.  It was pretty neat.  Saw a sting ray, thought of crocodile hunter and got kind of scared.

We got home around 7 and then went to Chili's for dinner, soooo goooooood.  But we didn't get home til like 9:15 and I was super duper tired.  I laid down on the bed and read a few pages and passed out in my clothes.

Day 6 - Finished "Good Omens" right away in the morning.  Incredibly good book, still highly recommend. It was kind of cloudy and windy outside for most of the day so we stayed indoors for the most part.  I tried to read my other book and it was so annoying and obnoxious I had to throw it down somewhere in the third chapter (yes, I literally threw it down, my brother even commented on the fact.)  We went over to the other hotel and got those free facials and my bro and dad got massages, but they were short and bleh.  We also ate free lunch which was buffet and also kind of bleh.  Then we went to the flea market and Wal-Mart again because we were running out of food.

That's pretty much it.  It's been kind of uneventful most days.

Alas, it's chill and pretty and relaxing, especially now that I can eat food without wanting to barf.