Our 5th Anniversary...in Mexico!

This July 16th was our five year anniversary. Can you believe that?? FIVE years! Time really does fly when you are having fun. Our gift to each other this year was the trip to Mexico. What a great time! We have been on all-inclusive vacations before, and every time we say that we wish we had some friends with us. Well, this time we did and it was everything we hoped it would be!




We stayed at the El Dorado Royale, just outside Cancun. The resort was awesome. The last time we were in Mexico we were at the Royal Porto Real in Playa del Carmen. The facilities were equally nice, but the El Dorado was much bigger (which is not necessarily a good thing, you had to take a shuttle if you didn't feel like hiking). I loved being in Playa, because we were only one block away from 5th avenue--a cool little area with lots of shops and restaurants. The food at the El Dorado, however, was much better and they even had a sushi restaurant!



When I say that there were friends with us, I don't mean just a couple...there were 10 of us in all. That really threw them for a loop at this couples resort, although I don't know why it was such a big deal because they have weddings there all the time. At any rate, it was next to impossible for us to all sit together at a restaurant. Interestingly enough, they did set us up for a romantic candlelight dinner for 10 on the beach, the night of our anniversary.





I guess the only "adventure" we went on was a van ride to the shops in Playa. We were a little nervous at the checkpoint we went through along the way where we saw Mexican military guys with machine guns, but they were there the last time we went and apparently it is like the road-blocks we have here.




It was a great trip that included a lot of eating, laying by the pool, massages and the occasional pool volleyball game. Can't wait to see what our next trip will be!





At the time of the trip, Luke was 6 1/2 months old. Part of the week my parents stayed with him and part of the week he was with Kyle's. When we got home he was sitting up like a big boy without any support! For a few weeks before the trip, we would hear an occasional "dada", but when we got back it was "dadadadadadadadada!" By 7 months, he had discovered "mamamama" and "babababa", too. I tried several times to get a good video of "dadadada," but he wouldn't cooperate. He's a little angry in this one: