Catching Up!

Now that school is over (yay!!) and I don't have to get up terribly early for work tomorrow, I finally got a chance to go through and edit our honeymoon pictures! Be warned, there's a lot!

We flew to New Orleans, and left from there on a cruise to Progresso and Cozumel Mexico.

The view of the Mississippi as we leave New Orleans...

The Mississippi Delta, with the Gulf in the distance

Sunset on the river

Taking our traditional self portrait while lounging on the deck!

My favorite part of being on the boat itself (besides the unlimited food!) was the towel animals that the room stewards left for you each night. I was SO excited to come back and see what we had waiting for us every evening !

Towel Dog... or Pig?

Towel Ninja

Towel Frog

Towel Elephant

Towel Turtle, my favorite!!

For our first excursion in Progresso, we were lucky enough to take a two hour bus ride to the Mayan Ruins at Chechen Itza. They were AMAZING, and HUGE! The ruins cover almost 6 square miles of jungle, we were there for 2 hours and saw only about a quarter of it.

The Main Pyramid

Mayan Ball court. The acoustics here are incredible, apparently you can stand in that temple at the end, and talk to someone in one at the other end of the court (which is at least the size of a football field) and you can hear each other perfectly at normal voice. Crazy.

The Ball Hoop

Serpent

More serpent.... or a jaguar... :)

The acoustics here were crazy too. You can stand in front of the pyramid, and clap your hands, and the noise echoes across the whole field and makes the exact call of a macaw. It's just bizarre. And on this particular staircase, at Spring Equinox, the sun hits at a specific angle and the rocks are covered in shadow in the shape of a serpent curling down the stairs. Since we weren't there for that, they showed us pictures, and it was amazing!

Huge spider....
This is our cruise ship docked in Cozumel, we went snorkeling and sea kayaking here, so all of those pics are on our waterproof camera. When they're developed, I'll get them on here!

After the cruise we went back to New Orleans and stayed for a few more days. Our trip was MUCH more fun the last few days than the first day we were there.

Our hotel. We spent a few thunder and lightning storms in this pool, that was pretty awesome!

St Charles streetcar, which we rode EVERYWHERE!

Our last night in town we took a haunted tour of New Orleans and the French Quarter from "Bloody Mary," whom you may have seen on the Travel Channel. Her tour was amazing, she knew so much about the history of New Orleans and all the different cultures and backgrounds of the people, we learned SO much and it definitely gave us a better appreciation for everything the city has been through. These are a few of the places we went, sorry the pics are so dark:

The bar where we started the tour. It's from the 17th century and they have no electricity inside at all, with the exception of the cash registers. You may be asking yourself "what's that light that looks like a TV? " We have no idea, as we sat in there for quite a while, and both promise there are no artificial lights of any kind in there.One of the homes in the French Quarter we stopped at

The back of St Louis Cathedral. There's a giant statue of Christ in the courtyard/church cemetary that makes this shadow

This is the front of the cathedral at night

And in the day time....

And finally, before getting soaked in a GIANT rainstorm and then heading to the airport, we spent our last morning there at The National World War II and DDay Museum. It was huge and we spent a ton of time going through all of the exhibits.

Wow, it was so much fun getting to go through all of these pictures again!! Makes me want to go on another honeymoon right now!!