More Honeymoon Fun!

Well, I've been back a full week already and have finally had time to scan in some of the fun pictures we took in Cancun. The parrot one was sort of the grand finale...these were taken a little earlier in the week. Don't worry, wedding pics are coming up. I just have to get them scanned and/or uploaded next. We saw so many that Ron's mom and uncle had taken when we went to my parents to open our presents on Saturday afternoon! Man, that was so much fun...

Okay, so imagine the scene... Ron and I had just downed three shots of tequila each after we had eaten some dinner. Good thing we did it after we'd eaten or we'd have been fall down drunk instead of silly buzzed! We walk outside and almost immediately get grabbed by a little high-energy Mexican dude (they we all over the place, go figure :P) who puts a hat and pancho on both of us in order to take these delightful shots...


AYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYE!!!!!!!!!!

Just look at that poor burro... Poor Pancho, poopsie. He's got that typical performing animal look in his eyes, "Get this shit overwith so I can eat!" Ron and I took turns petting his face. Lil' guy earns his oats and carrots.



HAHAHA!!! So much fun... Those damn buggers do this to the tourists on purpose, of course, because we just HAD to buy the shots after seeing them. Oh well, it was so worth it.

Friday was our horseback riding experience. These are the complementary shots they took as we rode the shore. First we rode down a trail through the "jungle", as they called it, even though there was no tree cover whatsoever. It was just dense and somewhat tall bushes and trees on either side of us. Ron actually saw an iguana. All I saw were leaves and bark. It was very relieving to get to the beach, where we rode for a bit before we all took a drink break. During the break, the group leaders took us in small groups to ride a horse bareback into the water. I hadn't come prepared, as I wasn't wearing my bathingsuit. But hell if I was gonna pass up such a unique opportunity! I joined the first group and rode a cute white horse (not the original one I was riding because only about four were used to taking people into the water) right on out into the beautiful warm water. Lemme tell ya, I've heard nothing like the sounds a horse makes as it acclimates its large, air-filled body cavity to the water! You know how you have to pop your ears when you're on a plane or underwater to equalize the pressure? Well, that's what a horse does with great burps and groans as it swims. And yes, the horse actually swam a little bit with me on it! It was so weird! Anyway, here are some pics from the day...


Ron on Camache... Isn't he handsome?! I mean Ron, not the horse. Even though that horse is a perdy one!


Me on lil' 'ol Freckles. She was such a sweet, well trained little girl. All she did was follow the others. Didn't give me any trouble at all. You could tell these horses were plenty experienced with that area, the people, the trail and themselves. It was so cute, everyone had their own little horsie pecking order. The whole horseback riding experience turned out to be well worth the few headaches it had... Like having to get up and out early, enduring a grueling, bumpy hour and twenty minute bus ride to and from the ranch (on the way there having to listen to the two nonstop chatterboxes behind us) and the heat. Notice I didn't say "unbearable heat". We were lucky, we were only experiencing "spring heat". BLeAcchHhhccCHh... Glad I don't live there. Yea by the end of the trip we were ready to come home. I missed my babies and having a dry scalp, Ron missed English speaking channels on t.v.

Okay, that's about it for now. Time to get on to the working out part of my day. I must work off the enormous linner (lunch into dinner, yes) we had last night. The Armenian Feast.

For another entry.

Soon.
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