Sunday, December 2, 2007

Chichen Itza
























This was our adventure to Chichen Itza one of the seven wonders of the world. We bought tickets online, the whole trip was quit an adventure. We went to the piere where we met a "lady in a green shirt and white pants," she gave us our tickets for the ferry that went to Playa Del Carmen. Where we met another green shirt/white pants man, who took us for a half mile walk to a bus stop. As we waited he wrote different numbers on our tickets, but never cared to tell us why. We all loaded up on one bus and off we went. Several people with us were going to different locations, we were a bit puzzled. After 15 minutes the bus pulled over on the side of the freeway and they unloaded all of us, we were puzzled again, until we saw a bus number 13 come. The number matched the number on our tickets. We loaded on the bus and we were on our 4 hour drive to Chichen Itza. However we stopped at a water hole where a few people swam. Then we stopped to get a bite to eat. When we finally got to Chichen Itza, we started to get a broken english history of the historical site. During the tour a little man was running around shouting, it is going to rain, ponchos, 50 cents, ponchos 50 cents! In my mind I thought, "oh it won't rain that bad we'll be ok." Then all of the sudden, a HUGE rain storm came through with rain drops the size of quarters. After a few minutes I was getting soaked to the skin, so I grabbed some money and went over the the poncho man and I asked how much and he said, four dollars. Talk about inflation... We got home safely at 10:00 pm.

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