Mayan ruins, juming stingrays and more

As I predicted while signing off this morning, we did head to Tulum Ruins taking advantage of the cloudy skies. In true Gass-Lachance fashion, we were the first to arrive and even the parking lot attendant had to chase us down to pay. We had the place to ourselves for most of our visit - well at least we only had to share with the iguanas. Jason loved it and was the official photographer, methodically documenting it all. Keira wanted to know where to find the bodies aka tombs and then discuss how exactly people died. We settled on them falling ff the cliff, which you would think people would learn to avoid after building a city there and all. The kids might have enjoyed the 300 m trencito ride back to the parking lot even more. Then we headed to Tulum beach for some serious swimming. We also took advantage of being in Tulum to stop at the San Francisco supermarket again. I was wrong, and in fact Heather had bought enough tortillas just for the Gass lachance family (not a fiesta en el pueblo) on vacation and so more were needed. I think we also each took turns (and I do mean all four of us) reading the receipt and marveling at how little "all those cucumber" or "all those mangos" were.

Jason was in the pool for about 3 hours (probably more) today. heather and I took turns snorkelling in half moon bay. We keep ending up going at low tide which places us only a couple of feet above manta rays in the bay. We have both also seen multitudes of fish, squid, puffer fish and turtles. After both of us were out of the water, a big ray leapt out of the water almost at waters edge and then sped so fast in the water for a couple of hundred meters (the water is clear so we could follow his shadow). We are hoping not to bump into one of those!!!

We also had delicious food today. There is a truck that we noticed that makes lunchtime deliveries to people working along the row of condos. Finally today the timing was right (hungry) so I head over to inquire and got six delicious empanadas and two bowls of amazing chicken soup and some of the hottest fresh salsa ever. We also discovered the thai- Mexican fusion place down the road which has been amazing. The chef is a woman who spear fishes her own lion fish each day This is impressive.