As you are aware, my lovely bride and I spent a relaxing 4 days in Mexico. To me, relaxing meant being over-sunned, over-rested and over-served. I did manage to accomplish this for most of the days. More on this later. However, Danielle and Jill managed to book an excursion to the ancient Mayan Ruins in Tulum. The Ruins were pretty cool and the beach was awesome. So I applaud the activity. What I failed to comprehend is that our trip was an X-Treme ad
venture. What does this mean? Well it is best described in pictures. We start out doing some repelling down a 50 foot hole. Now mind you, I am all for adventure and can "Man UP" for anything. But let me tell you this, standing on a perfectly good platform with a stairway to the bottow, does not lend itself to leaning out backwards over an edge leaning just on your tip-toes and holding a rope. The worst part was waiting your turn. All kinds of thoughts run through your mind. I will say that after I got over the edge, it was quite a rush lowering yourself down the chasm. I even managed a smile. 
The second part of the extreme adventure was a series of zip lines across the jungle tree tops. There was almost 2000ft of zip line with varying tower heights upwards of 75 feet. Now we had learned our lesson on the repelling portion and made sure we were the first to go. Overall it was pretty cool and as long as you don't think about it, it is quite the rush. Notice how much fun Danielle was having ;> 
The final part of the trip was actually very cool. We went Snorkeling in a Cenote. Which is quite simply an underground river that gets exposed through a sinkhole. The water was fresh and a bit chilly, but there rock formations were crystaline and impressive. There were even several fresh water fish in the area. If you had scuba gear, they have excursions to take you from one Cenote to the next following the underwater caverns. That would be pretty cool, but also pretty dark. The snorkel adventure was a nice way to cool off after all of the other activities. Overall it was a very cool experience, that I might never do again ;> Let me tell you this, when we got back to the hotel at 3:30pm, we were more than ready for mucho cerveza por favor. Thats all the time I have.
Thanks, you've been great. TTS
"Let me tell you this"...you are, "quite the rush!" Looks beautiful. You better be careful, your girls are getting of the age where they just may enjoy that, given the chance. The more the merrier, I say:)
ReplyDeleteWell, it is nice to see you guys had such a great time and enjoyed your four days of R & R. I can tell you that when I did the zipline thing in Jamaica I was very sorry to see it come to an end. It is truly a GREAT and fun experience to rush over the landscape.
ReplyDeleteHA! I remember feeling the EXACT same way when we did the rapelling in Cabo! Waiting your turn was definitely the hardest part (especially when we watched some older guy have a complete freak-out, to the point where it took him FOREVER to get to the bottom)...and then that moment where you have to "sit back" in your harness, trusting it (and the guys below) to hold you..and then, as you said, once you're there, it's a blast. We had to be told to slow down cuz we were having such a blast zipping down to the bottom. We can't wait to zipline again in Hawaii in September. Loved every second of it. (especially the tequila at the end). Great pix, thanks for sharing! The snorkeling looks awesome!
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