100 things we'll remember: Sian Ka'an....

The 107 things (bonus!) we'll remember about Sian Ka'an, Valladolid, Chichen Itza, Ekbalaam, Cozumel. Archive, 2006.

1. Easy flights
2. HUMIDITY
3. Waiting two hours for rental cars
4. Gale touching the trees (Gary: "Some of those are poisonous.")
5. Troy hunting down Gale in the dark
6. The wind
7. Clear puffballs on the beach
8. Ian: Mom attacking the honeymooners
9. Gail: Michi coming to find us
10. Loni: Jujubes
11. Guacamole
12. Gary: Nothing (something or other)
13. Turtle tracks at the beach
14. Seaweed & snorkeling
15. Nice dogs
16. Huge hermit crabs - electric blue and bright orange
17. Nervous lizards
18. Cenote and bountiful fish (leopard puffer fish too)
19. Boat trip through lagoon to Boca Paila
20. Hercules and Henry, our guides/boat captains
    
21. The 8km canal, floating through bathwater
22. Ibis, tricolor heron, great white egret, whitetail hawk, frigates, pelicans, osprey, flycatchers, grackles, tropical mockingbird
23. Delicious fish dinner
24. Shooting stars
25. Huge spiders on the path to our tent cabins
26. Lizards (lots)
27. Face on the corner at Tulum
28. Carved wall murals
29. Wind - getting hit with all that sand
30. Friendly, lap-happy cat
31. Diving
32. Motor & chassis ride (aka "truck")
33. Amigos cursing and stunt-driving
34. Solitary monkey
35. Boa constrictor at the snack shop
36. Psychedelic Mayan van
37. Crazy dog with a hole in his side - and a coconut!
    
38. Excellent pescadillos
39. Sudden evening storms
40. MOTMOTS!
41. Nine guys with machine guns in the middle of nowhere
42. Best mango ever
43. Snorkeling in the cenote
44. Finding a catfish
45. The scorpion
46. The prison
47. The pig
48. 77 dogs, 25 chickens, 10 turkeys, 3 goats, 1 cow, 1 burro, 1 red horse, 2 children peeing, 5 goats
49. #19 on a bike
50. Colorful concrete houses
51. Gary complaining about me unzipping luggage late at night: "Oh, great, do you also have a xylophone?"
    
52. Gary, in response to my surprise at finding a big spider in the bathroom at Hacienda Chichen: "Can't you tell you're in the jungle? Look, there's a marble tub."
    
53. El Castillo rising from a clearing in the jungle
54. No high-powered weaponry
55. Pretty plates we're not allowed to eat from
56. Chac "Norris" to hold the keys
57. Thunderstorm in the jungle
58. Tree branch falling in the jungle
59. Leaf-cutter ants trooping along
    
60. Hanging out at the pool
61. Coffee in pretty white cups
62. Tour guide yelling at lawn mower guy so they could clap and hear their echos
    
63. Lady chasing Loni, thinking she stole a popsicle
64. Beagle! "Jefe"
65. Climbing through completely dark ruin, no guards and no lights
66. Goofy dog at the cenote
67. "In you go." (Parting words to sacrificial virgins at the cenote)
    
68. No tocar los lagartos!
69. Climbing to the top of big pyramid at Ekbalaam
70. Muy interestante: restoration work
    
71. Perro at pyramid, hiding under the thatched roof
    
72. More motmots!
73. Lots of lizards
74. Caterpillars by the hundreds on tree trunks
75. Butterflies everywhere
76. Madonna music in the jungle
77. Sitting in the car for a long time on the monotonous highway
78. Lots of rain
79. Ferry ride... Loni getting soaked
80. Swimming in warm pool in cold rain
81. La Choza - tres cantadores singing "Cozumel"
82. Big owl :)
83. Icy crystals flavored with coffee (K-Freeze from Pemex)
84. Frog on the wall of the balcony
85. Diving: grouper, eel, seahorse (yeah!!!!!!), barracuda, turtle
86. Shop vendors yelling at us: "Cheaper than Walmart!"
87. "Almost free!"
88. "I'm single, looking for an American woman."
89. "You have a beautiful daughter; you're very lucky."
90. La Choza's chicken
91. Senor Tocar with Ian and Troy's first dive
92. Tres cantadores - Magalena and a funny song - "you have to eat!"
93. Senor Tocar and the eel
94. Staying up late to watch "Meet Joe Black"
95. Watching Sylvester Stallone on tv
96. Shark & turtle on snorkel trip
97. Big green lizards behind casitas
98. Donkey dung sea cucumber
99. The killer eel
100. The dive
101. "Everyone hates you, Ryan."
102. Tiny, tiny seashells
103. Gorgeous blue water
104. Watching Troy and Ian head off on fishing trip
105. Mini-backrub from the waitstaff
106. Tourists on Segways
107. The cab driver with a hippo, a frog, and Jesus