{"id":6372,"date":"2015-01-30T04:13:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2015-01-30T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:13:11","slug":"last-best-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/30\/last-best-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Last (best) day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t bring my camera to our outing today, but never fear! I lifted images off of the internet that show exactly where we were and what we saw.<\/p>\n

Trip one:
\nAkumel for snorkeling with sea turtles, a barracuda, parrot fish, giant sting rays, coral reefs, and an enormous green eel. The eel was coiled up inside of a coral cove, but you could see its mammoth head and neck near the opening. The guide asked us, “shall we continue?” to which I responded with my solo chorus, “YES! Let us please\u00a0<\/em>continue!!!” I swam away from that as fast as my flippers would let me.<\/p>\n

After forty five minutes in the ocean, I felt cold and very ill, but I did emerge with a shifted paradigm. I had no idea how interesting snorkeling could be! To be honest, I didn’t even feel that scared of being eaten by a shark, even though we were out deeper than I have ever swum in a body of natural water.<\/p>\n

Here are my copied pictures:<\/p>\n

\"Akumal<\/a>
Akumal beach where we snorkeled. The sky and water and sand looked exactly as they do in the picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"We<\/a>
We saw so many sea turtles! They were everywhere. The babies were so cute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"We<\/a>
We didn’t get quite this close, but the turtles were very friendly and not scared of us at all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trip 2:<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>
This is one of the pools we visited. The pools are called, ‘Dos Ojos.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The caves where we snorkeled. I was so cold that at first I just sat on that ledge, but Kim from our little group (we went with just Abe’s boss, Lucas, and his wife, Kim), convinced me to come in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This is what I saw when I entered the pool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was amazing. I have never seen anything like what I saw today.<\/p>\n

After the adventures and lots of good times visiting with Kim and Lucas, we headed back to the resort to spend a couple hours on the beach reading…and ordering food. The food came right to our lounge chairs by the ocean. It was not only magical, but also a little windy and cold. So as soon as we ate our food, we headed to our room to warm up and get ready for dinner.<\/p>\n

The farewell Qualtrics dinner was set out on the beach. We ate a bunch of fish that the deep-sea fishing group caught today, and I got to visit with some of my favorite people from the trip.<\/p>\n

And now to finish packing. Tomorrow we will be back in Salt Lake with our girls!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t bring my camera to our outing today, but never fear! I lifted images off of the internet that show exactly where we were and what we saw. Trip one: Akumel for snorkeling with sea turtles, a barracuda, parrot fish, giant sting rays, coral reefs, and an enormous green eel. The eel was coiled … Continue reading Last (best) day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}