Chichen-Itza!!!

My fellow bloggers and blog-stalkers,

You will be happy to know that Kaley and I have finally said "I do", hence the change of our blog title, there is no need for a countdown anymore. From June 21 forward, we are husband and wife. I apologize for our lack of blogging but you must understand that getting married is a very busy ordeal. But we have settled in and intend to bring to you, our lives as a married couple. So for our first "married" post, I will tell you about our trip to Chichen-Itza.


Amigos, imagine, to my left, 90 stairs on each of the four sides. How many is that? I tell you, its 360. Add five for the top platforms and you have 365 my friends. How many days in a year? I tell you, 365 amigos. This is how our English speaking, Mexican tour guide talked through the whole tour through the north end of Chichen Itza my friends. However, Kaley and I's journey does not start there.

It all started because I wanted to see Mayan ruins. Why not? We were in Mexico. So I went online and booked the a tour through some Cozumel tour guide site. It took a while to figure out because our credit card didn't go through and we got emails from the tour guide site saying we needed to give them our credit card number to match up what I gave on the website. This should have been our first clue to an interesting trip. I declined and said I would fill out another form because I didn't want to give our credit card number in an email. This is some advice for you readers out there. Don't give your credit card number over email, you never know who is on the other end. Everything worked out and we booked our trip.

So on Friday we took a ferry from Cozumel to the mainland of Mexico. Kaley was very nauseous. So we get to where we need to go and we are taken to the vans where our two hour expedition to the Mayan Ruins would begin. People start piling into the van and Kaley and I notice that none of them are speaking english. So we are a little intimidated. The van fills up and we head out. There are probably about 10 people in the van. Our tour guide gives us some background info about the Yucatan, first in Spanish, then he says "for you two I will now do english" and everyone kind of chuckles. It was an excrutiating trip because everyone is talking to each other and no one is talking to us becuase we speak english. We finally arrive at, CHICHEN-ITZA!!!

So we get there and we are waiting for our tour guide to get tickets. While we are waiting one of our tour mates takes the oportunity to take a group photo, except that Kaley and I weren't invited in the photo. So we stood awkwardly two feet to the side while everyone else was in the group photo. If I was asked to take the picture I might have disembowled someone. But we got our tickets and everything was fine, until we got passed off two times to other tour guides because we didn't speak spanish. But we finally got into the english speaking tour and we met our Mexican friend who like to talk like this: Amigos, let me tell you, have you ever heard the wolf cry to blue corn moon. AND: Friends, I will tell you, think about this. It was pretty funny becuase he prefaced everything with Amigos, Friends, Let me tell you, and I tell you. So that was fun. Once we were in the ruins it was fun for Kaley and I.

We learned that captains of the ball teams had to hit an 8 pound rubber ball with only their elbows, hips, or knees into this small hoop about twenty feet above them. And it is yet to be determined but they think that the winning captain was beheaded.
Also, Mexico is quite possibly one of the hottest places Kaley and I have been. As depicted here by the beads of sweat falling off my face and the large sweat stains on my armpit. Also, packs of dogs like to come and worship the many mayan gods, mostly the serpent god. We also went to a huge well where the Mayans sacrificed small children. Amigos, let me tell you, there was no evidence of human sacrifice until after the Toltecs took over and had influence in the Mayan capital of Chichen Itza. Apparently Toltecs came and took over for a bit and the Mayans came back and after that they started sacrificing people. Who knew?

So we ended our tour with the view of the huge well which was pretty impressive. We took lots of pictures of it and we before we left we noticed this huge lizard laying right in front of us. So our first five pictures of this well have this lizard in them and we didn't even notice it. While we were walking back getting ready to leave Kaley was hungry and wanted some chips so she got some cheetos, Amigos, let me tell you, all the chips in Mexico have chile pepper flavor in them. We did not know this. Kaley is not fond of hot tasting food. She was taken aback. But she managed to eat the whole bag and we made it to the vans to start our two hour trip back to the ferry.



On our way back, we stopped at a Mayan cuisine buffet which was really just rice and potroast. And we stopped at a cenote, a natural underground pool created by rain and spring water. We hopped back in the vans made a couple other stops and then headed back. No one was really talking to us still except for this Swedish girl who we think had the impression that American are stupid but she told us she moved to California to nanny four children, so I question why she came to America to nanny if she holds little respect for Americans. Anywho, we get closer to our final destination and we realize that everyone in the van now is speaking english!!!! Kaley and I were not to happy. This capped off a frustrating end to a horrible trip. All in all, the ruins were cool but the trip sucked. If you take a trip there make sure you are in a group with a bunch of Americans, cause we stick together and look out for one another. I will close you guys with a picture of how Kaley and I's trip went. Until next time (I think Kaley is going to update you with wedding stuff) take care cyber world!