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T minus ten days to go. The first blog posts had a countdown to going away, the next ten will be a countdown to coming home. We have one more full day I’m the Yucatan, and then we head out to take a couple flights back to our home in Mexico. We slept in againContinue reading “Day 170”

Today we were going to go on a tour around the Yucatan. But it got cancelled due to the pandemic. I’m pretty sure the tour guides were planning on bribing some officials. One of the sites they were planning to go to is definitely a national archeological site that is closed. I’m not going toContinue reading “Day 169”

I woke up before dawn and took some photos of the sunrise sort of. As I walked on the beach I noticed some people already swimming in the ocean. A couple pelicans were fishing and then flew onto a near by post, a remnant of what must have been a small dock. I got curiousContinue reading “Day 168”

We slept in this morning. The kids woke us up clinging and clanging their cereal bowls and spoons. After breakfast we literally did nothing. I actually fell back asleep for no reason at all. Bonnie spent most of the day jumping in the pool and then drying off to cool down. It’s very warm andContinue reading “Day 167”

I forgot to mention in the last post that as I was driving on an errand, I saw an iguana crawling on a tree. That evening I saw a moth the size of my fist with a one and a half foot wing span. This morning a lizard ran into the house we are rentingContinue reading “Day 166”

Today we did the same as the day before. Hung out by the pool, ate fish tacos and just enjoyed ourselves. I drove into town to buy corn tortillas for the tacos, they were freshly made at a torteleria. Out of nowhere a thunder storm rolled in. It was pouring and thundering for twenty minutesContinue reading “Day 165”

The past few days have been slightly stressful. We bought separate tickets here and separate tickets back to the city we are living in. The tickets to fly back to the city in Mexico were cancelled because the airlines we bought them from I guess didn’t have enough customers. So we bought super expensive ticketsContinue reading “Day 164”

Today we did the same as yesterday. We were a little more relaxed on our rules about screen time. We ordered out from the restaurant we ordered from on the first night we were here. It was a nice lazy day. I made brownies for desert and while we had desert, we watched the movieContinue reading “Day 163”

We hung out by the pool all day. The Saharan dust cloud made the entire area look overcast. It isn’t clouds above, it’s one of the largest dust clouds ever recorded from the Saharan desert Some of the kids got sunburnt today. Despite me or Bonnie chasing them around to put sunscreen on and remindingContinue reading “Day 162”

The kids let us sleep in this morning. They love vacations, not because of where we are but what we let them do. On vacation, we let them have whatever cereal they want. So they chose their own cereal at the grocery store before we came here. Their choices were all wrong, but far beContinue reading “Day 161”