Monday, January 13, 2025

Tropical New Year

For Christmas, we gave the kids a trip to Cancun!  We wanted to take a big family trip before Hunter leaves for 2 years! We took a red eye a few days after Christmas and had a great time.  We stayed at Moon Palace-Sunset.  Same place Ladd and I stayed on our honeymoon 23 years ago!  It was a good mix of relaxing and adventure!

Drinking Pina Coladas on the beach and by the pool...

Beach time!


The Moon Palace is huge!  We took golf cart rides around the resort..


Explored the pools, game rooms, restaurants, and beautiful scenery!

Felicity enjoyed the in room spa and little stuffed turtle given to her by the resort...


Felicity was feeling "Cookie-sick" as opposed to "home-sick" but luckily grandma was taking good care of Cookie and sent Felicity plenty of pictures of Cookie which helped!

We spent a day at Xel-Ha.  

Ladd and kids started the day swimming with dolphins.  It was hard to get good pics (we didn't pay for dolphin picture package)!  But they had a great time, especially Felicity who had never done it before!




Enjoying random wild animals around the park...

Cave snorkeling...


Cliff Jumping....





Ropes Course...





And just enjoying some good family time in a very beautiful place!










Exhausted after a full day at Xel-Ha...


The resort had "ice skating". It was so funny.  The rink was made of plastic, not ice.  Made gliding across the rink a little difficult.  We called it Mexican Ice skating and it did not last long!


Ladd took the big kids to Xplore Fuego-cave swimming, zip-lining, the biggest water slide in North America, and driving polaris' through the jungle.  They all loved it and was their favorite part of the trip.  

Since Felicity was too light to do the zip lining, we decided not to pay for her and I to go, so we stayed back and explored the kids area in the resort...

They had face painting there and she looked like the cutest puppy!  

We took lots of pictures with her face paint around the resort after that!








Last day of the trip, this little teenager was exhausted!

So much love for Cookie when we finally got home!





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