10th Wedding Anniversary Vacation

Well, we are back from our 6 day vacation in Cancun/Riviera Maya.  
We headed out super early (around 4:00 am) last Sunday morning.  My sister, Trish, had come on Saturday to hang out and 'get the instructions' as she said.  :)

The travels went super smooth on Sunday...  left on time in DSM, connected in Dallas and again, everything went smoothly to Cancun.  (Besides being super tired), everything went well. 

We got to the resort...  ate a quick late lunch, and had our first drink in paradise.  From there, we got settled into our room, got acquainted with the place... and just soaked it all in.  Our first night there consisted of me falling asleep around 7:30...  and staying alseep until about 7:00 Monday morning!  OOPS.  

The rest of the trip was awesome...  lots of sun time, sprinkling in lots of shade as well (as we got a little toasty on Monday!) We drank plenty and the food was great at every restaurant.  I was super glad about that... I didn't want to starve!

A few main things that we did - 

• Romantic dinner on the beach (was supposed to be candle lit), but the candle didn't work.  ha. It also poured nearly the entire time we ate... but then at the end, it cleared up, and we saw the prettiest rainbow.  
• a "sky massage" - consisted of a full body massage outside under a 'hut' thing, listening to the waves.  Perfect. 
• a live gourmet cooking dinner - right in front of our eyes.  There's a restaurant called "Fuentes" that has live cooking.  It's a 5 course meal where the chef cooks the course in front of us, then we got to experience the food.  It was really neat... and I tried some really different foods!  ha.

We left Cancun around 4:00 Friday afternoon... a delayed flight out of there, but knew we would be ok for the connection.  Little did we know that connection in Dallas would give us a run for our money.  We landed... got to our gate, and knew we had some time (as the flight to DSM was delayed), but unfortunately for the next hour or so, we rode that Skylink in Dallas THREE times because our gates kept changing.  THREE TIMES.  Rather annoyed, but it kept us on our toes!  

But...  we really had a great time...  lots of relaxing and reading too.  We enjoyed ourselves, but we were definitely glad to come home to our littles.  They, too, had a really good time too.  Trish and JeanAnn kept them busy in their own ways, and sent us pictures and texts the entire trip.  I appreciated that so much.  I know they were safe, happy and having a good time (and Ryan and I too!!!)... but I still could miss them!   :)

Pictures from our trip:

Our first food and drinks on the way!, straight off the plane and ride to resort

Not going to lie - this totally cracked us up.

Our own pool at our room.  Totally awesome and used a lot!

Just a few of the cool desserts we enjoyed.

Ryan testing the ocean... and was not graceful at all!  ahha