Finally A Post!! Ryan and I went to Cancun a few weeks ago and had a blast! We were able to go on vacation for the first time without kids, (whoo hooo!) thanks to my wonderful sisters Katie and Falycia, who flew in from across the country to take care of our three boys for a whole week. Thanks Guys! We got to stay in an allinclusive resort for most of the time and then for the last few days we stayed at the Westin in the Cancun Hotel zone which was beautiful. We spent most of our time just relaxing and soaking in the sun. We did take a day trip to a place called Xel-Ha, that had some awesome snorkling, and we also took a ferry to Isla Mujeres one day. A little island not far from Cancun that had some fun sightseeing. We had a great time. Here are a few of the pics in no real particular order.
Ryan on the dock
This is a cool picture that Ryan took at night. It is the few from our westin Hotel room. Looking out over the pool and then the ocean.
Same view during the day. It really was beautiful.
The pool went right up to the beach.
One of the many little cabanas on the beach that we spent time relaxing/napping in. Ahh life without kids...we hardly knew what to do with ourselves!
just chillin' on the dock
The pelicans were all over the place. It was fun to watched them soar over the ocean and then dive down to try to catch their lunch from the water. This one was struttin his stuff for us. He really seemed like he was enjoying being photographed. We were able to get right up close to him and he just watched us and spread his wings out as if saying "here look at me!"
On the beach in February. Couldn't be happier.
I have come to realize that all Hastings have this amazing jumping ability. Ryan, just like his sisters, can get some serious air! It is so fun to capture with our new camera. This only took one take. He's a natural!
So pretty much the funnest part of the whole trip for Ryan was building Sand castles in the rain. It did rain quite a bit in the afternoons while we were there, and one day during a pretty good downpour, when most of the tourist were running for cover and the beach was quickly being deserted, we Seattleites decided it was the perfect time for sand caste building. Ryan was pretty proud of how his masterpiece withstood the floods. fun fun! (and why didn't we bring our kids you ask....... I'm sure anyone who saw us was wondering that same thing.
Chillin' in the cabana
Here is the Snorkling place we went too, unfortunately I don't have a great picture of the actual park, but here is Ryan signing "The Hastings were here" in Spanish. It was really fun being in Mexico and being able to talk and joke around with everyone seeing as how we both speak Spanish.
This is our room at the resort.
Some random pics of the resort.
The "all inclusive" part was pretty cool. We definitely never went hungry! They had 6 different restaurants there at the resort and they were all pretty good. This was one of the appetizers at the Italian place that Ryan really liked. It was Cantalope with Ham and bacon and some other crazy stuff. Sounds weird (and looked weird) but I guess it tasted pretty good!
This was the litte moped we rented when we went to Isla Mujeres. It was a really fun way to get around the Island!
Snorkling. We saw Sting rays, turtles, and tons of really beautiful fish. So fun!
