Feliz Navidad from Mexico

We flew out to Playa del Carmen, Mexico on Saturday 20th December for a week in the sun, this was our first meal out after a day in the sun - guess who forgot to take a hat on holiday?

After a couple of days lounging on the beach we ventured out in our hire car for a drive to Tulum. This is an old Mayan ruin similar to Chichen Itza only much smaller and a much shorter drive. It was funny getting into a manual car again after driving an automatic for 18 months, also the car had no power steering and even though it was a very small car it was really clunky and hard to drive. Got used to it very quickly though, unlike Nick, who managed to stall it once. heeheehee, so glad I didn't do that.

Another day spent lazing on the beach, building sandcastles and jumping waves and then on
Christmas Day we went on a boat trip out to a reef for a bit of snorkelling. This was great fun and even Lily had a go and enjoyed it. On the way back, Antonio, our man in charge of the boat decided to have some fun...

and went really, really fast bumping over all the waves and wakes from other boats. Flippin 'eck, I thought I was going to throw up, we were getting bumped about all over the place, I'm surprised one of us wasn't thrown overboard, I nearly lost my hat and was feeling quite sick, however as you can see Lily was loving it....She is happy in the picture, honest.