Hello avid readers! Yes, Derek and Michael are still alive and kicking and we continue on with our trip southward! From where we left of last...the original plan was to travel to Cancun from Merida. On the way we stopped in at one of the 7 wonders of the world!!!! Chichen Itza. From our unbiased travel wise opinion, this is one big tourist trap and not worthy of the name 7th wonder of the world. While the site is still very impressive and marvelous, there is a large entry fee and too many people to make the experience completely enjoyable, not to mention a salesman coming up every couple minutes trying to get you to buy something. No thank you, we don not need a jaguar call flute or vudu masks supposedly made by real mayans. We also were not able to climb or touch any of the ruins and this is obviously due to the popularity of the area. There are impressive strucutres but not as many as we had hoped. Our reccomendation is that you go to Palenque in the jungle of the Yucatan in Mexico and experience those ruins. There are more of them in a beautiful jungle setting and there are also more interesting strucutres, not to mention you can touch and climb on them!

After Chichen Itza we decided to head to Cancun and arrived in the dark. One of our contacts was supposed to take us diving out at cozumel in the next day or so, so...we decided to skip the party scene in Cancun and head through to Playa del Carmen where we could take a ferry to Cozumel in the morning. Luck was not on our side however, and the weather ended up being terrible. Nevetheless we braved the ferry to Cozumel. We knew it would be pretty bad when they started handing out puke bags right away and there were white caps forming in the water near the shore. Then, we were off! 12 foot swells crashed into the ferry and people started puking in their bags and one lady passed out holding a baby in her arms. A crying baby alerted many to help her and her child, thank goodness both of them were alright! At the end of the 45 minute fairy we both had motion sickness. We checked into a Hostel on the island that was very pleasant called Hostelito. Would reccommend staying there for cheap accomodation and easy acces to the water. Over the next couple days we would dive with turtles, sharks and exotic fish. Stay tuned for a future post with video...whoo hoo!