Cruisin' to Mexico! (Mommy Blog)

Well, after many years, Hubby & I decided it was time for a vacation. We were looking at renting a house on the Texas coast & maybe inviting my parents to help us watch the G-Man. My mom said "why don't you two go & leave G-Man with us?" Hmm? I hadn't thought of that. Could we leave for 5 days without him? Where would we go? We went to our local travel agent, told her our budget & ideas. Next thing I know, we are scheduled to leave in 3 weeks for a Mexican Criuse. Wow. Ok. Soooo, on September 14, we headed down to Galveston & boarded the Ecstacy for a 5 day cruise (not a 3 hour tour).

The sunset over the back of the boat that evening was beautiful. We sat in the deck chairs, enjoying the warm, salty breeze & a beer.

Yep, that's me & my little fat toes looking out over the horizon.

Sigh, this is what we've been waiting for...some Rest & Relaxation.

I could totally fall asleep right here & not wake up for about 12 hours. We spent an hour or so in these very chairs every day. It was on the top deck, next to the running track. You could hear the faint sound of the music from the lido deck.

Had to take a picture of the inside of our room safe. Hubby is sooo000 OCD & he doesn't even realize it.

We hung out on the back of the boat to get some rays.

Dinner Tuesday Night after a long day at sea. We never dress up like this at home. People would look at you funny if you showed up at Logan's Roadhouse dressed like this.

View of our boat from the pier.

This is Playa Mia Beach. I could retire somewhere very similar to this.

Beach Break at Playa Mia: open bar, free buffet & all the sand & sun we could handle.

This is the most beautiful, bluest water I've ever seen.

I think the heat & humidity made me a little loopy.

This is way after the 2 pina colodas had worn off.

This was the sunset while we were pulling away from Cozumel.

The next morning we arrived in Progresso. It has a 4.6 mile long pier because the water here is so shallow. There were armed guards everywhere along the pier.

Just off the boat, we boarded a charter bus headed for Dzibilchaltun Ruins. The heat here puts Texas in summertime to shame. The humity was about 90%.

This was the view looking down from the top of this pyramid. If anyone saw the movie Apacalypto, I'm pretty sure this is the one they were rolling heads down.

Shane headed to the top of a pyramid. The steps were tiny.

Dang Spainairds plopped a cathedral down in the middle of this Mayan city.

This was the main temple. The sun & moon shines directly through the windows during the Equinoxes & Solstices (not sure what the plurals would be, but those sound good, right?)

Just liked the looks of this little man.

Folk dancers. Why YES those are machetes they are dancing with.

One of the cabelleros from the horse show.

View from our bus of a goat herder & his flock on the way back to the boat.

Shane chilling while enjoying the view of the ocean, sketching & listening to the IPod.

We really enjoyed this day at sea. I did a little reading (Breaking Dawn). We went back to the room, ordered sandwiches & cake from room service. Then we took a 3 1/2 nap. I haven't taken a 3 1/2 hr nap since before G-Man was born. It was divine!
Shane says it's not a nap when you close the curtains, turn the A/C to snowblowing mode & crawl under the covers. Nonetheless, he enjoyed our nap too.

Chocolate Melting Cake. I had one EVERY day on the boat. Gotta find me that recipe.

This was a wonderful vacation. We needed it so much. We decided that we will go away together....alone, one time each year.

We got back to big D Saturday afternoon while G-Man was sleeping. When he woke up, Hubby & I went into his room & who was he asking for?

Nana & PaPa.

I guess he didn't miss us much.