More Chichen Itza As Promised!

I said I'd post some more Chichen Itza pics. I have more favorites but really, how many rocks can you take? I'll let the pics speak for themselves.

Later!

Chichen Itza Pics

Here are some more Chicken Pizza pics:

I can hold El Castillo in my arms:

Wall of the Ball court. If your team wins, the captains head gets lobbed off. It's an honor!:

Serpent head (I think...I may be wrong though):

Columns in the temple of a thousand warriors:

Hanging butterflies:

The observatory. I observed things when I was up there:

Interior wall of the observatory:

More pics to come. Stay tuned.

Chichen Itza.....At Last!

After all the vacations I've taken and the 4-1/2 years I've lived here, can you believe I have never gone to Chichen Itza? Sick I know. But I've been now so I've finally put that to an end! For some reason the timing was never right or I wanted to do other things. My advice to you if you want to see Chichen Itza is to do so when it's the "cooler season" because otherwise you will die of the heat and go blind from the blaring sun. Anywhere between November and now is ok. Even the month of April is kind of pushing it. Especially for those who are use to cold weather. One woman from the Pacific Northwest (I heart you pnw) said that she couldn't wait to get back home where it was cold. So keep that in mind!

I took the easy way out and dragged that Becky on a tour with me and boy oh boy did we have some fun! In addition to Chichen Itza, we also drove through Valladolid, a very quaint and colonial town which is worlds away from the blitz of Cancun. We also, and for me this really was a super extra special bonus, stopped at cenote (water sink hole) Ik-Kil. Ik-Kil means "Place of the Winds". It was absolutely fabulous . My first cenote. I can't tell you how amazing it was. It really was a great day.

As I promised, here are some pics:


Corner store in Valladolid:



Street in Valladolid (pretty...nothing like this in downtown Cancun):

Cenote Ik-Kil from above:

Stairways leading down to cenote:

Looking up from cenote:

Me after my first swim in a cenote! About time!:

Midway platform where people were jumping off into the water. The light was hitting the water just right:
It looks like i'm not going to get to the Chichen Itza pics today but I promise to post them later. It's sushi and bucks time with Beckla.

Sowy

I've had some serious computer clusterbleeps with my computer and I have thus been absent. Also, I had tried to blog and the computer just decided to shut off because it felt like it. So that pissed me off of course and so then I didn't blog a couple of days after that.

Plus Saturday I went to Chicken Pizza aka Chichen Itza with Becky Lava Lava and that was like ALL DAY LONG and then after the long day I went out and partied and so you know what that means? Dead stupid Liz on Sunday and recovering Liz on Monday.

Anyhoo. I have a blog draft in the works and also I suppose I should show you some pics from Chichen Pizza and cenote Ik-Kil. Lord knows I'm not an avid reader. Although...due to the computer issue at work I'm reading about a prostitute. The book is called Eleven Minutes and it's written by the same guy who wrote the Alchemist, Paulo Coelho. He's pretty good at being a female prostitute too. Anyways, that Lisa is really proud of me and I guess I am too. But don't tell her that.