Cancun:
Charlie and I had a great time in Cancun with my family. We stayed at my sister's timeshare at the Royal Sands and it was such a nice place. Every day we got up, went to the pool or beach, drank (White Russians for me, thank you), ate and
relaxed. Twice we went on excursions during the day. The first was to go ziplining at Selvatica and we had a blast. This was the second time Charlie and I had done it (Costa Rican honeymoon adventure was the first), but the first for my Mom, Dad and brother-in-law Shawn. Faith and the baby stayed home (both were sick anyway, but when you have a 1-yr old someone has to stay home!) and we missed them, but maybe next time Faifer will get to come. So, Selvatica. We strapped on our gear and wizzed thru the tree tops. At one point Charlie, my Mom and I got to go upside-down. That was awesome! Post zipping we took a short 1-mile bike ride down to a cenote (sinkhole) and had fun jumping off a cliff and ziplining into the water. Shawn and Dad both belly/back-flopped off the zipline and even got bruises ...ouch. Charlie attempted a back flip off of the zipline and ended up face-planting, but I give him big props since I was too chicken to even try that. I went off the zipline platform backwards, didn't let go in time and still gracefully entered the water...where my top flew off and I had to maneuver in the water to hide my shame...ha! Good times for everyone. After the bike back we had lunch and then went back to the hotel. Our other excursion was to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza (or chicken pizza as our guide called it). We had a 2.5 hr bus ride to and from the place, drank some beer and had breakfast on the bus then had a 3 hr tour of the ruins. MAN, they are spectacular! I could have spent days and days marching around that place and climbing around the ruins...but we only had 3 hrs. I highly recommend going to see them if you're ever in the area - magnificent! (pictures to come). After the ruins, we had lunch watching some small-town dance troupe clog their way into our hearts (while smacking gum and giving us the bored eye) and then went to another cenote (or c-note as my dad says). It was super fun, but by the end of the day we were exhausto. We ate really well (mmmm fresh guac and pico) and had good times with my family, yay!!MN:
Three days after we got back from Cancun we pranced off to MN (read: flew) and spent the holiday with Charlie's family. We stayed at his Mom's house (thank you Mary) and used it as our home base for the week. Christmas Eve when we got in, we drove my Mom's car (thanks Mom, for the whole time!) to Tina's house and had a great xmas eve dinner with Charlie's (and Kyle's) family. For me, it's really great to see his family since we don't often get the opportunity to. Holidays are hectic, so usually it's an in-and-out sort of job. "Hi, How are You?, Thanks, bye!" kind-of deal...which blows. But this time I felt like we got to spend more quality time with his family, so it made all the difference :) Charlie and I got hammered (at least I did) on xmas eve, so we stayed at Tina & Kyle's house, woke up late, had breakfast ala Kyle and Zacc (amazing!) and then headed to Mary's for a quick change. We lazed around for the rest of the day until we got to go to my parent's house for Christmas Day dinner with my family. Mom and I showed off our Salsa dancing skills (thanks to Pepe from Cancun) and we were all the rage. I could tell everyone really wanted to be in our dancing shoes that night! Faith allegedly has a video of our antics, that needless to say will end up on You Tube or something ridiculous like that ;) Over the next few days we got to see his friend from the Guard, Ryan, and his fiancee Krista (the "McKoski's" as they call themselves) and hang out with the Marshik clan a bit more. Our last night there we ate Benihana for lunch (I cleaned my plate of 10 scallops, chicken fried rice, apps and all...plus a sushi bonus!) then The King and I Thai (great thai place in Mpls) for dinner. Our server was phenomenal! We hit Keegan's and then Nye's afterward, where I drank too much (of course) and got the ribcage-collapsing hiccups...and made a few drunk-dial phone calls. Poor Beth. We left for home the next day, as the Vikings were making the playoffs by the hair of their chinny-chin-chins.
New Years:
Erin & Cory had a shindig at their house for NYE and I got all fancied up. I actually bought 4 dresses the day before NYE at EXPRESS on sale (super score!) and chose the black one to wear. Beth punked out and wore pants, but I was happy to see Erin and Alicia lookin' mighty-fine in their fancy duds. Yay team! My dear friend Tomas gave me a recipe for Coquito, which is basically a coconut-rum concoction that I drank. It was pretty thick, so I iced it down and had a few glasses. Num! We danced to a few songs and then once Wilke passed out we decided it was time to go beddy-bye as well. We crashed at the Sholl household, where Cory got a stomach bug and was up all night (Boo :(, poor guy!).Great times all around & pictures to come later!
...balls, that was a long post.
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