Round 3 Of Producer Cristi's Photos From Cancun, Mexico
February 10th, 2009

The sunrise in Mexico is almost as pretty as the sunset in Mexico. However, I'm a bad person to ask about this because I was only awake for one sunrise the entire time I was there.

So where did we leave off? Oh yeah, my broke-ass toes.

This caused quite a bit of concern, as the day after it happened we had pre-planned and pre-paid for a tour of the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza. I was not looking forward to huffing through a seven mile tour on a bad foot, so my Mother insisted on hooking me up with this sweet ride:

My boyfriend pushed me around the ruins the entire day and never complained once about it. In the picture on the right, we are laughing because he had just told me that he didn't mind because he had a straight view down my shirt.

The tour of Chichen Itza was just incredible. Some of the oldest buildings we saw dated as far back as 100 AD What was really cool was our tour guide was of Mayan decent, so he had a really keen perspective of the culture. I'd share some of the stories he told us with you, but I had to pay $75 to hear them and you're viewing this on our free website, so suck it.

The building with the round top was their Observatory where they would monitor the weather, study astrology and make announcements to the public. The acoustics in the area of these large buildings and temples were better than any live venue I've been to. If you simply clap at certain points in the courtyard, the sound will echo throughout the entire area.

I know, more pictures of lizards, but check out the huge ass building he was on! Dude, that's impressive.

The Great Ball Court! This is the area where they held the sacred Mesoamerican ballgame where men had to try to get this heavy, thick rubber ball through the hole pictured above. However, unlike overpaid American athletes, the Mayans would sacrifice the Team Captain of the winning team to the Gods. I know what you're thinking- why would they kill the captain of the WINNING team? Because it was an honor to die for the Gods and the Mayans would only offer them their best. If you look closely at the wall carving you will see the ball with a big skull in the middle of it. On one side you will see a man holding a head, and on the other side you will see a body with snakes coming out of the neck. The Mayans were so hardcore.

As if this wasn't cool enough, the Mayans also kept a head count. Skull wall!

This is the grand daddy of all of the temples. The Temple of Kukulkan. There is some really fascinating history behind this building and a ceremony that thousands of people still attend every September and March 21st. I'd share the history lesson with you but 1. I know how much you maggots hate to read and 2. If you are reading this now, clearly you have the internet and can do the homework yourself if you are really interested.

Seeing the ruins was awesome, but my boyfriend bumped up the fun level by rolling me (in the wheelchair) right in front of people who were trying to take pictures of the structures. He did this so many times and I was laughing so hard, I started taking pictures of the people who were having their pictures ruined by me. Why not? I mean, who's going to yell at the little retarded girl in the wheelchair?

More gratuitous sunset photos. The sad part being, the photos don't really do the sunsets justice.

We reserved our last night in Cancun as our date night. Just the two of us enjoyed some incredible seafood and wine on a pier off the lagoon. It was near perfect.

Afterward we went to a bar next door, not knowing we were walking into literally the worst bar in Cancun. We took appropriate pictures to mark the occasion.

We spent our last morning in Cancun eating breakfast with my entire family, including my little nephews who can eat quite a bit for being such little fellas. The super photogenic broad in the yellow shirt is my sister. What a bitch. She's not even wearing makeup! No matter what I do, I always look like I'm constipated in pictures.

I couldn't believe how much we lucked out on great weather while we were there. The meteorologists in Mexico must suck, because they told us every day it was going to rain, but it never did.

However this did happen:

Then again, if it weren't for the saddlebags, the little old lady making a sandcastle might have been the cutest thing I have ever seen.

I loved Mexico but by the time we made our 2nd connecting flight, we were ready to get home, and Scotty was very thankful to be able to drink the water again.

And if nothing else, I brought home a pretty brutal souvenir.

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