Mexico Trip #2

So now that things have slowed down after the holidays, I have gone back through my Mexico pictures...

One of our days down there we went on an excursion to Chichen-Itza (mayan ruins). THey are such an amazing sight to see... I won't write much about them, but they sure have fascinating history, I'll just share an interesting and very cool thing about the ruins... THere are 2 main areas, the "pyramid" and the stadium, the mayans had such an understanding of math and sound waves, etc. that the stadium was build in such a way that you can stand right in the middle and clap and get a nice loud and crisp echo... very cool, but you may think ha, not that impressive! Well, you can also stand right in front and center of the "pyramid" and clap and the echo you hear is not a "clap" sound, but rather sounds like a bird chirping... yes, and not like "oh if you use your imagination you can see how you would say that" no! It is a very distinct bird sounds... don't believe me? fine, you will just have to go and check it out for yourself. ha!! anyway, here are the pictures.
The sky was just amazing that day, perfect for pictures!












After Chichen-Itza, we went to a sink hole it was beautiful and the pictures just don't come close to doing it justice. We had to go down a long set of steps before getting to where you could jump into the water and then the water was over 150 feet deep! It was pretty cool, the water was so clear yet it looks totally dark because of how deep it is. They said the water was about 75 degrees... I don't personally think it was that cold, but it was definitely worth jumping in. Looking up from the middle of the sink hole up to the hanging roots was just indescribably beautiful.