Mexico

Is anyone there? Yeah, I know—I’m a bad blogger! Hopefully, once the baby arrives I will feel like I have more to share.

Now to play catch up…

Ben and I took a wonderfully amazing trip to an all-inclusive resort and spa in Mexico in the beginning of December. It was my first time out of the country and my first flight on a commercial airline (says the daughter of a pilot)!

For the most part we had a wonderful time doing nothing! We sat on the beach under a cabana being waited on hand-and-foot for two whole days. Bonus: On our second day of lounging we had front row seats to two weddings! You can see one of the weddings taking place just beyond Ben's feet. Ben wasn’t really that impressed…I guess it’s a girl thing.

Later, we took a full-day guided tour of the ruins at Chichen Itza. I thought this was absolutely going to be the highlight of the trip, what with my obsession of history. However, after traveling for three hours and listening to our tour guide try to crack jokes for three hours straight we finally stopped at a little shop and that was when we learned that we would not be eating lunch until 4:30 in the afternoon. Um…what?! People, we ate breakfast at 8:30—you cannot expect a pregnant lady to abstain from eating for 8 hours. Needless to say I was a little panicky when we finally arrived at Chichen Itza. After listening to our tour guide talk about nothing for 20 minutes in the sweltering heat, Ben and I decided to live on the edge, break away from the tour and go EAT!!! After we ate we conducted our own tour, which was fabulous! At the end of the day, we decided we had a much better time exploring the ruins on our own and it was pretty fabulous!

Ben and I consider ourselves to be extremely blessed to have been given this opportunity (along with many others). We can't wait to go back--that is, if we can ever afford it!