Mexico!!!!! Well, the gulf mostly!
The trip was bomb to say the least. The whole trip was totally sweet. The only part I didn't like was when I had to come back. Though it is nice a bit to be able to use the computer and sleep in my own bed. Lets see, what happened. This is the edited version :p
On Saturday we flew out, four hour trip, then took a taxi to the ship. Housten isn't really all that. Kinda boring acutally. The ship was cool. The Norwegion Sun, I think it was called. There we met my cabin mate. He is my brothers wifes brother, Travis. We get along pretty well. Just like having a little brother. He's about 18. So while my bro and his wife were getting sttled in, Travis and I hit the pool, cause it was so hot and humid down there in Texas. The pool's water is replaced everyday by seawater. Yeah, saltwater. I found out when I first dove in, and got a nose full of seawater. Good times. Then we relaxed in the hot tub, and met all kinds of people.
Sunday was cool, accept I got a sunburn and I missed a lecture by this guy named Brother Bott. I later found out that his lectures are totally awesome, and I regret not going. Sacrement was odd, on account that we had it in a disco lounge. It was distracting to be listening to a speaker, then blink and see all the garish surroundings. I don't know if you knew this, but I was with an LDS group of about 100 people.
Monday we went to Roitan, and hit some buses untill we reached some Mayan ruins. When we got off the buses, we got some bikes and biked to the temple there. Alot of interesting carvings and whatnot were all over the place. Also some Eguana's. They were everywhere. Travis and I raced to the top. He won of course, having done track and field most of his life. Those stairs were so steep, and it was like, a hundred feet up or something.
Tuesday we went to Cozimel. Very poor area, lots of bartering going on when I managed to shop. Travis and I went on a Zipline tour; that is, we went to the jungle and zipped around on steel cables through the canopy. That was probobly the most fun I had, next to snorkaling, which is what I did about 20 minutes after the zipline. And Snorkling was soooo cool. It was seriously like Finding Nemo. There were so many cool looking fish, all transluscent and almost glowing. Alot of them changed color. I found a small shell that didn't have any creature living in it, and I smuggled it back :p
The next two days were spent in Belize, then Cancun. Well, at least those were the ports. We went and saw some more Mayan ruins. The one in Cancun was sweet, cause after we looked around the ruins, there was an awesome beach right behind the ruins that had more coral reefs, and the water was refreshing, if really warm. After that, I got to shop around in Cancun.
All in all, is was a really cool trip, and I am glad I was able to go before my mission. I want to go back...
Oh, and the addresses I am going to be at, should any of you feel the need to write me! :p Feel free!
Elder Richard Z. Sperry
Provo Missionary Training Center
2005 N 900 E
Provo UT 84604
and the Georgia one is
Elder Richard Z. Sperry
Georgia Macon Mission
5082 Forsyth Rd. St B
Macon GA 31210
On Saturday we flew out, four hour trip, then took a taxi to the ship. Housten isn't really all that. Kinda boring acutally. The ship was cool. The Norwegion Sun, I think it was called. There we met my cabin mate. He is my brothers wifes brother, Travis. We get along pretty well. Just like having a little brother. He's about 18. So while my bro and his wife were getting sttled in, Travis and I hit the pool, cause it was so hot and humid down there in Texas. The pool's water is replaced everyday by seawater. Yeah, saltwater. I found out when I first dove in, and got a nose full of seawater. Good times. Then we relaxed in the hot tub, and met all kinds of people.
Sunday was cool, accept I got a sunburn and I missed a lecture by this guy named Brother Bott. I later found out that his lectures are totally awesome, and I regret not going. Sacrement was odd, on account that we had it in a disco lounge. It was distracting to be listening to a speaker, then blink and see all the garish surroundings. I don't know if you knew this, but I was with an LDS group of about 100 people.
Monday we went to Roitan, and hit some buses untill we reached some Mayan ruins. When we got off the buses, we got some bikes and biked to the temple there. Alot of interesting carvings and whatnot were all over the place. Also some Eguana's. They were everywhere. Travis and I raced to the top. He won of course, having done track and field most of his life. Those stairs were so steep, and it was like, a hundred feet up or something.
Tuesday we went to Cozimel. Very poor area, lots of bartering going on when I managed to shop. Travis and I went on a Zipline tour; that is, we went to the jungle and zipped around on steel cables through the canopy. That was probobly the most fun I had, next to snorkaling, which is what I did about 20 minutes after the zipline. And Snorkling was soooo cool. It was seriously like Finding Nemo. There were so many cool looking fish, all transluscent and almost glowing. Alot of them changed color. I found a small shell that didn't have any creature living in it, and I smuggled it back :p
The next two days were spent in Belize, then Cancun. Well, at least those were the ports. We went and saw some more Mayan ruins. The one in Cancun was sweet, cause after we looked around the ruins, there was an awesome beach right behind the ruins that had more coral reefs, and the water was refreshing, if really warm. After that, I got to shop around in Cancun.
All in all, is was a really cool trip, and I am glad I was able to go before my mission. I want to go back...
Oh, and the addresses I am going to be at, should any of you feel the need to write me! :p Feel free!
Elder Richard Z. Sperry
Provo Missionary Training Center
2005 N 900 E
Provo UT 84604
and the Georgia one is
Elder Richard Z. Sperry
Georgia Macon Mission
5082 Forsyth Rd. St B
Macon GA 31210