Miles's science class has been studying crystal formation and he did this experiment at home over the Christmas break. He mixed up some salt water and left it out in this bowl. When we got back from Mexico, the salt water was gone and the bowl was covered in salt…

We're way past this stage now, but here are a few photos from the demolition part of our basement project.  

Much requested map

New Years Eve in downtown Cancun was a pretty mellow affair for us, just more good food and enjoying some of the local celebrations

Our last day in Mexico, we drove into Cancun, so we'd be ready for the flight the next morning. Liam and Miles worked on Mayan inspired sand castles, and we all enjoyed the bath-warm waters

Driving around Mexico, probably 2/3rds of the signs were about either “Obeying” the signs, “respecting” the signs, “honoring” the signs, and “please don’t mistreat the signs.” In Chiapas, they pleaded “Don’t attack the signs”

Valladolid was probably our favorite town to visit (after Campeche) very laid back, with a 17th Century church that was beautifull

The final ruins we went to were outside of Valladolid and are probably the most famous/most visited. Having gone to so many other ruins already, we felt like giving this last one a skip, but we knew we'd regret it later. That said it was more than worth it, and…

Near Santa Elana there was an underground swimming cave called a cenote, the water was incredibly warm

Mayapan isn't the most visited site, but we liked it a lot. We wondered why there was holes in the wall on the images of people. Apparently that's where the Mayans would put the decapitated heads of their enemies! Myself and Liam on the main temple