Viva Mexico!! A little late.

On January 2nd, Ryon and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. Crazy, I know. We didn't really do to much to celebrate except for dinner and a movie the night before. That was fine with us. We did, however, do lots of celebrating LAST February when we went to Mexico for our 10th anniversary-a-little-bit-early. I never posted the pictures, just lazy I guess. After coming upon them on my memory card I thought I would share with you all some of the highlights (:
One of the things about Mexico is that there are people selling stuff EVERYWHERE. This is the hat guy selling hats on the beach in front of our resort. He reminded me of the book "Caps for Sale". Its a good book, you should check it out (if you have a 4 year old at home).



Also in Puerto Vallarta there were iguanas all over the place. Like randomly in the trees and on the rocks around town and stuff. Well, this is by far the largest iguana we saw while we were there. But this one belonged to some guy who put it on me while we were getting off of a boat. Then, as Ryon is taking a picture of me and Fluffy, the guys tells us in some sort of english that it cost 50 pesos to hold his iguana. So this picture ends up being me looking stupid and telling the guy that I don't have 50 pesos. He was mad and he took Fluffy away.




On one of the days we took a boat out to go snorkeling and go on a hike up to a waterfall. When we got to the spot for snorkeling the waves were a little out of control so they cancelled that part of the trip. I can't say I was all that disappointed. The water wasn't warm and it was kind of overcast. Not my idea of fun.

The hike up to the waterfall was neat. Some of the people rode horses but we walked. First, we went up through a teeny little village. There were some people and some horses, but mostly there were lots and lots of dogs. After that, we walked across a small river and kept hiking up until we got to the top where the waterfall was. It was beautiful. Some people went swimming. Not us. That water was FREEZING. Like I said before, cold water/not sunny, that's not my cup of tea. Check out my dollar store sunglasses...sweet, huh.



Both of us had the most fun on the day we went to Sayulitas. It is a small surfing town about two hours north-ish of Puerto Vallarta. Maybe it really wouldn't take you two hours if you drove yourself there, but we rode the bus everywhere and that's probably why it took us so long to get there. I enjoyed the bus ride, we got to see the outlying area. It was great to get away from all the resorts and touristy noise. We just relaxed on the beach and watched the surfers.
We also enjoyed walking around their little town. This was the view from the dive we had lunch in. So cute.
Downtown on the Malecon in Puerto Vallarta they had a sand sculpture competition while we were there. That was fun to see.

There were also these awesome wooden and chain link bridges to get from one side of town to the other.



One of the things I loved about our trip was sitting on the beach at the resort in the evening, reading a book and watching the sun go down. This picture is of the pirate ship going out for the dinner cruise. We saw it go out every night and could hear them fire the cannon ball. It looks awesome in this picture.


Anyway, we had a great time Puerto Vallarta. It was wonderful to get away from the frigid temps up here in the frozen north. I really enjoyed spending some alone time with Ryon. We don't get a whole lot of that at home with four kids (: I'm sure there are more pictures from our trip somewhere. Maybe if I find some exciting ones I will post them later.