On Wednesday I had treatment. I only got a picture of this melon heavy fruit plate. Our electricity was out in our apartment so my phone wasn’t charged up. I didn’t mind the time spent there since it was nice and cool
And by the time I got home, the loghts and AC were back on.
We checked out this church bit couldn’t go inside due to mass going on.
The side of the church looked realky different than the front.
This giant iguana seemed to be in charge of the church. He didn’t want to move when we walked along the sidewalk to the door of the church.
On Sunday we decided to check out a market and have lunch there. It was super hot. The heat index said with humidity it felt like 102 degrees. But we planned to drink lots of water and just deal with the heat.
After seeing the inside of the market we changed our minds. The market was clean, there were the usual gross meats hanging by hooks. Lots of skinned turkeys hanging by their necks. I didn’t take photos way too gross
The most disturbing part was there was no AC. All the meat was sitting out in the heat. It was probably ok but we couldn’t do it
We checked out this colorful taqueria instead. They were closed so we went to an air conditioned restaurant.
Did the meat for that restaurant come from the unairconditioned market? We don’t know but we felt fine after eating lunch.
Some of you may know that I have an eye phobia. Normal eyes I’m good with but injured eyes freak me out. On Saturday Jeff got a burst blood vessel in his eye. He’s totally fine, but I’m not. Every time I look at him I involuntarily scream. Jeff has this nifty fix of using this phone eye as a substitute. It works until he needs both hands.
The phone eye, was inspired by our friend Brian. Years ago when he and I worked together at Starbucks he had the same eye problem and I had the same reaction. He started with a post it note eye that he wore in meetings and then graduated to the hand eye.
Friday we did just the usual. Errands, Jeff worked and I studied Spanish and we went to the gym.
On our way to the cenotes we passed through two small towns. We counted, each one had one road and 30 speed bumps. I get they want you to drive slowly but it was a lot.
We were told the speed bumps were because the town really down have many cars. They mostly have these moror taxis. They are motorcycles with a park bench on the front. We saw tons of these.
We also saw some cows.
The speed bumps did slow us down enough to notice the Mayan pyramid in the top photo and the town church.
On Wednesday we finally visited a cenote. Cenotes are basically water filled caves. There are over 14,000 cenotes on the Yucatan peninsula.
We went to a place called Santa Barbara which had three cenotes. They actually have four, but once was closed. The first thing they give you is a life vest which everyone is required to wear in the cenotes. At first I thought it seemed like overkill, but once I was in the water I realized you needed them. They are deep. You can’t touch the bottom in any of them.
The first one was a closed cenote which meant it was completely underground.
To get to it we had to go down these stairs. As a person who is bad on stairs it took me awhile to get down
Once I was in the water it was great. The water is cold but when it’s 103 outside cold water is welcome.
The second one was partial cenote which means there is a hole in the ceiling which lets in light. This one started with this tunnel. Once inside it was half cave with staglites and half open with a tree growing down down towards the water.
On the way out I asked Jeff to go ahead to get the phone to take the above photo. As I was getting out I teetered on my feet a bit and next thing I knew four elderly Mayan men were helping me out of the water.
The third one had these stairs to get down to it. The stairs were OK but the handrail was the blue rope. I was clutching the rope pretty hard, but made it down. Once down this one was the easiest to actually get in the water.
This one was open which meant the entire ceiling was open. This is also the one in the top photo.
Afterwards we had lunch in the restaurant which was included in the entry price. We thought it wouldn’t be good since it was included but it might have been the best food we’ve had in the Yucatan peninsula.
We now have only 13,997 cenotes to still see. Swimming in them was great, but getting into them was tricky. I need one with better stairs.
On Tuesday we didn’t do a whole lot. I did laundry at the laundramat and had my Spanish class. And best of all, a rainbow in the afternoon.
I was able to go to my favorite salon to get my gray roots covered. It’s not fancy but it is in my living room and free.
My stylist is also pretty sexy. I couldn’t get a picture of him because my hands were trapped with the rest of my torso under a garbage bag with a hole cut in the top for my head.
The color came out great. The lighting wasn’t good in the apartment, but it was great at the grocery store. While Jeff shopped for food I had a little selfie photo shoot over by the seafood counter.
On Sunday we went to the Museum of Light. This museum is open until 8pm and we didn’t get our act together to go until 5pm which is why we picked it out of a list of at least ten other museums.
The museum had nothing to do with light. There are temporary exhibits, this one was on what insects look like under microscopes. It sounded weird but for $5 on a Sunday evening we thought we’d try it.
It was actually pretty cool. Who knew insects were so colorful and furry.
I also think insects look like horror aliens.
This is like a horror movie. The attack of the giant bee.
They also had some real insects. All the cages looked empty. But then the tops were all open so maybe they all flew away?
You could also look through a microscope.
Jeff thought you were supposed to pick these things up and pretend they were clothes. I don’t think you were supposed to touch them.
The museum was next to a park so after we laid down on this weird park bench.
