Btw, not all of my pictures are here, but you can look at all of them here: Shutterfly Group for BYU Merida 2012
Allie and Gaylee sitting on the bus behind me. We went to Dzibilchaltún on a nice first-class bus.
Natalie and Audrey listening in on a conversation, Taylor behind them
My view of the bus from the very front where I sat
Me walking through lotsa green forest on our way to the visitor's center; I must say I'm getting better at getting shots of myself with background.
Allie, Alannah, and others in the group walking along behind me.
Ryan reading the signs in Spanish and Mayan
Me standing next to the explanation sign in English and the map of the ruins. I made it bigger so you can read the words if you want to try and read it.
Rebecca putting a flower in Brooke's hair as Bradley makes a face behind them
Brooke's pretty orange flower! Yay! I don't think it stuck there long, though... :(
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Morgan, Ryan the Camera Guy, Cody, and Jackie
William, "T-Rex" Thomas, and "Lookit-my-tongue" Brad
Me waiting with our group to get our backpacks stowed away.
We waited her a bit while they put our backpacks in a safe place to retrieve later.
Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take our backpacks with us to the ruins, so I accidentally left some important things behind (like my towel... which I needed for el cenote, the natural reservoir we were going to after looking at the ruins. Oh well, I survived). I just carried around a notebook and my water bottle so I could take notes as needed and stay hydrated. Honestly... I loved this place so much! :) Too bad I couldn't fit all my pictures of the glorious places here... or even all my video (I'll put the video on Youtube when I'm less tired.).
An iguana! :) YAY! There are seriously SO many of them in the Yucatan Peninsula - someone in my group even commented that they're like squirrels out in parts of the U.S.
Me with one of the first part of the ruins that we encountered
That semi-round rock over there kinda looks like a tombstone... I wonder if it was... O__O
I decided to be weird and point at this information plaque. I did read it when I first saw it, but I don't remember much of what it was talking about.... Again, enlarged for reading sake.
Rachel smiling for the camera, while Profe Alvord and his family look at some mini-ruins and a plaque (the camera wasn't at the angle I wanted it to be because I was holding it awkwardly)
The looooong walk to the main attraction - El Templo de Las Siete Muñecas (The Temple of the Seven Dolls)
The temple from closer-up
Funny story about this part of the site: Laura was trying to climb it when I caught up with the rest of the group, but after she successfully climbed it (with everyone watching) she couldn't get back down. So, Ryan the Camera Guy started to help her - then she fell off it backwards into him! It was funny after everyone made sure both of them were ok. Too bad I couldn't get video of it.
Natalie standing next to the very climb-able pole
Me doing a weird view of me standing next to that pole
Natalie again, with Profe taking a picture of his kids off to the side there
We were allowed to climb on all the ruins, so we all did that plenty.
Allie, Gaylee, Audrey, Caitlin, Ryan the Camera Guy, and Laura sitting on a wall of ancient Mayan architecture
Me by the same wall they were on earlier; I climbed it myself later most of the way, but not all of the way.
Sitting on the steps of the Temple of the Seven Dolls
Me next to a window in that temple
In this picture, the program director's daughter Isabel is sitting in the window there. She's able to easily because of how small she is (around my brother Caleb's age)
Isabel in the window (it's kinda hard to see her face in this lighting) and a great view of the surrounding ruins
(left to right) Gaylee, Morgan, Brooke, Marie, and ME!
(left to right) Taylor, Thomas and Aaron chilling
(left to right) Audrey, Caitlin, and Taylor
Me attempting to look gangsta in a Mayan temple and failing. XD
My hat's back on regularly! :)
Looking out the window a la Rapunzel; I liked this picture so much I decided it's now my Facebook profile picture
Lots of cool ruins out behind me; I ended up not going over to explore those ones in-depth, though
More awesome far-off ruins; yay!
Another important plaque I photographed myself next to
The plaque from the previous picture expanded for you to be able to better read
We backtracked to return to the visitor's center where our backpacks were, so some of the girls got pictures back up on the awesome wall of awesome.
Posing on the awesome wall
Me out front of the steps of the Mayan temple
Rachel up on the wall
A great angle of some of the awesome ruins
These look like sundials or tombstones... they're probably some sort of solar marker
This part kinda looked like a castle to me - I loved the turret-like things at the top.
Another angle of "the castle"
Me at the top of a HUGE set of stairs! Seriously, it's like part of a Roman coliseum or something....
Me at the top of the large set of stairs again
Another important plaque that I hope you can read...
This isn't all of the pictures I took, or even all of what happened. Part two of this adventure is to come...
Hasta la vista, ya'll!
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