Mexico

Be My Valentine: Mexican Edition

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Lyle and I spent Valentines day in Cancun. We got pretty lucky for it to end up working out that way though, we didn’t plan it. Lyle earned this trip with his job so that both of us could go- just like last year. We left the day before so the first night we just explored our beautiful hotel. It was seriously one of the prettiest hotels I’ve ever stayed at. The next morning we woke up and Lyle had ordered us breakfast in bed. I never got any pictures of the amazing french toast because it was the best french toast and I scarfed it down. I learned a new way to make my french toast even better. Holy yum. We got room service probably every morning. Then we went out to the beach. Lyle surprised me with a couples massage that was ahmazinggg. Then we went back out to the beach.
Throughout the day Lyle did such cute things to make me feel special. He ordered me the most beautiful floral arrangement with two dozen roses and wrote a sweet card. He had sparkling cider delivered to our room, a fruit display and more. 
Then this sneaky boy set up the most romantic dinner I have ever had in my life. He contacted the hotel before we even got to Mexico and they had a romance package that he booked. We were set up at different times so we weren’t even there when other people were and it was perfect. The lobster was perfect and we had a guy serenade us on a saxophone, the service was amazing and we even got chocolate covered strawberries for dessert! One of my favorites 🙂
The hotel did this-so cute!
 We just layed on the beach everyday. Drank far too many miami vices and other saweet drinks. Oh and we swam with dolphins-something I’ve always wanted to do! But I think I will do a post all on its own for that because we have a video I have to crop! One of the coolest things I’ve done. So heres a jumble of some of our pictures.
We did the fish spa, went to the flea market and ate FAR too much. 
It was all inclusive and they had 9 different restaurants and everything was so good. 
And then I started feeling like I was on the bachelor (another bachelor reference) but really on Bachelor in Paradise they totally did the same thing. We repelled into this sink hole/cenote type thing and it was so cool. 
It was super far down! And oh don’t worry our guide “forgot” to tell us their were bats in there! They kept flying around and it was freaky. There were two ways out. You could either be hooked to the pulley and they would pull you up which everyone but Lyle, me and a firefighter did. The guy did it first and I was like hey I can do that…I got a little competitive and I am so glad I did it. 
and then we went ziplining on two different ziplines
 and canoed to lunch!
Then finally we finished hiking Coba Ruinas. These are only 1/4 of the pictures because I’m tired but if you are ever in Cancun this excursion was amazing and you should do it!
Ignore my sweaty grossness! 
We snuggled and watched the bachelor with coconut icecream (yum!), I seriously loved everything about this trip. The room service everyday, having our bed made every morning, eating as much as I want (I don’t normally have that luxury!), and soaking up the sun with this babe. Just relaxing was the best part in all honesty. I don’t know how you keep making each trip, holiday, basically anything better than the last but you do. I am so blessed to call you mine babe. Happy love day.

CANCUN, MEXICO

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I love Cancun. I’ll just start by saying that….I think I may even love Cancun more than the Dominican Republic. Why? Lots of reasons…its beautiful, theres so much to do and the people are so friendly. It could also be that this trip we went with a ton of friends so we were never bored. I HIGHLY recommend taking a trip with a big group sometime but don’t feel bad if you need to get away for some alone time because in a romantic place like this, you’ll want it!
 So we stayed here:
yeah not bad right! Lyle’s manager said he has stayed at a few places along the beach and this was by far the nicest. If you’re going to Cancun i suggest staying here!
Right on the beach…although most of the resorts are
My amazing lunch! shrimp, chicken and beef kabobs over rice. This was probably my favorite food i ate the whole trip.
Everyone raved about the churros from the Mexican restaurant. My husband being one of them! 
They had a couple restaurants that you could choose to eat at- nice sit down ones or a buffet (which was only good at breakfast) and some snack bars for lunch. All inclusive- including the room service and 600 pina coladas and miami vices we drank…whoops.
We got to cross off our bucket list a few things- one of which was Parasailing! I loved it. You got to see everything! They rode us out on Jetskis which was my favorite part and then we got to ride on the boat until it was our turn. We were up there for 10-12 minutes and it was amazing. Oh & we got to play with Bobba. She was ADORABLE. I was so in love. When i saw her we were in line for food and i started freaking out- lyle was like what?! 
These pictures of me arent that flattering but there is a monkey in them so who cares.
Bobba (the monkey) decided to pee on the head of the poor boy in front of me & i was grateful we got in the line right after him…
Oh and we saw some cool Mayan Ruins
standing in the doorway of our home…if we lived a gazillion years ago
^we hiked this bad boy. and my legs were dying the next day.
also getting up was a lot easier than getting down…
and sometimes wearing a maxi skirt may seem like a cute fun idea but it may not be so cute when you fall down the mayan ruins…just fyi. thankfully my husband reminded me to hold my skirt so i did not fall victim to such a tragedy.
us at the top!
on the way down…
what the sketch. 
Next stop: Chichen Itza….this we sadly could not climb

 the Mayans used to play a game here- They had to hit the ball through the hoop- this is the largest stadium…our tour guide referred to it as the superbowl arena for the mayans. 

Hieroglyphics of one of the players.
The captain of the winning team was sacrificed and he was all excited because he thought he was going to be a God. I would never want to win…
on top of one of the smaller ruins. We did our tour through Helaman Tours and i HIGHLY recommend it. Its an LDS tour group and it bring the Book of Mormon into it and how it plays a part and its awesome. 
of course i had to get a picture of one of the ancient aztec mayan dogs. There were tons of dogs running around- this one was one of the healthier ones- it was so depressing. 
Our group! (well not everyone but those who went on this excursion!)
After the ruins they fed us lunch and took us here, to swim in this almost cave like place.
Lyle would boogyboard ALL day. All the other husbands would come in for a break but nope not mine. He loved it. He was like let me teach you how but he forgot I grew up on the East Coast and have a lot of boogyboarding experience.
my husband is such as stud.
We played with Kenna while Brit & Jas got some beach time. But what started out as this…
 quickly turned to this….
& then i was like ya know someday….20 years from now we could have a zillion baby LCs running around and MAYBE if they are as good as Kenna I will be fine with it.
Lyle was acting like a paparazzi haha
 
We enjoyed the sun, went dancing at a club downtown, saw a cool Michael Jackson show & enjoyed Mexico. Coming back to the snow and cold weather was definitely terrible. I don’t think I have ever said I don’t want to leave so many times in my life. We still had so much more we wanted to do! Swimming with dolphins was next on our list but i guess we need to save some adventures for the rest of the year ;). It was an amazing way to start the year off- i could honestly not ask for a better trip. Its all thanks to this guy who earned this trip because of his hard work. I am so proud of him. I have this dream life because of him. Love you!
I cant wait for the rest of our adventures this year babe!
xoxo CAIT xoxo
P.S.-sorry for the picture overload! I am so in love with my new camera!