Mexico!

To celebrate the return of my little bro TJ from his mission, my parents treated our whole family with a trip to Cozumel for Christmas this year. Kyle and I met one of our long time goals and finally got scuba certified. We did three dives, a night dive (I don't recommend this for your first ever ocean dive, it was kind of freaky), and two reef dives during the day. It was so much fun! We loved it. My brother Jeff has an underwater camera so for pics of our scuba adventure you can look on his blog. There is a link to Jeff & Alisha's blog on the left side of the page. Here are some of the trip highlights:

The first few day we were there we had the coldest weather Cozumel has seen in years. But that wasn't about to stop my die-hard crew. We were in Mexico and we were going swimming! And by "we" I mean Jake, Hallie, Kyle, and TJ. The rest of us stayed bundled up and out of the water. Hallie was so determined to swim she refused to even admit she was cold.

The cold weather did give us plenty of time to bondin our hotel rooms. The second day down there it was too cold to swim so Kyle and I thought we would go on a walk with the kids and see some of the island. We got about ten yards from the hotel entrance before it started pouring rain. We tried to wait out the storm under a tree (picture above right) but when it didn't show signs of letting up we had to make a run for it back to our hotel. At least it was all you can drink Pina Coladas!


On day 3 we did some shopping and had lunch at Senor Frogs. The kids loved being in a restaurant where the waiters were making more noise than they were. Getting to play on the swings at the bar while we waited for our food was a nice bonus too.

The other exciting thing that happened on Day 3....we saw the sun! We were all thrilled and hurried down to the beach.