This is it. I promise.

 Katie thought I should post some pictures as well, so I've added a few. If you're sick of Mexico, feel free to completely ignore this post.

El Castillo at Chichen Itza seen behind a large altar where human sacrifice took place (notice the skulls)

Mural on the side of an altar at Chichen Itza. Notice the eagle eatinga  human heart. On the top is the depiction of the winged serpent god.

El Castillo at Chichen Itza with my beautiful wife standing in front of it.  It's really really big.

El Caracol at Chichen Itza. Katie is standing on the other side of the Mayan arch. Mayans didn't know how to build true arches, which severely limited the size of internal rooms which they could build.

El Conejo: the rabbit. This is in Izamal outside one of the multiple Mayan pyramids upon which the city is essentially built.

Merida Cathedral at night.  In my opinion the most impressive cathedral we saw.  Not ornate inside, but has very nice simple arching stonework.

Knocker on the above cathedral.

Market at Merida.

Mexican sweets in the market at Merida.

Above the front door of the Casa de Montejo in Merida.  The Montejos were the family which led the Spanish conquest of the Yucatan peninsula. Notice the soldiers standing on the heads of what can only be natives. Seems rather severe, doesn't it. Of course, you can't really say it's much different than the human sacrifice practiced by the Mayans themselves.

Uxmal. View from the nunnery to the governor's palace. Uxmal was amazing.

The corner of some building in Uxmal. It was hot that day.

The dovecote at Uxmal.

Another view of Katie in Mayan arch, also at Uxmal.

Reverse handprints in Loltun Caverns. Our guide said these predated the Mayans, so that would put them well over 2000 years old.

Loltun Caverns.

White bougainvillea at Yaxcopoil

Looking at a graduated cylinder at the Yaxcopoil Hacienda. This is the, "Alex is a chemist" picture.

Looking out from one of the Bastions at Campeche. Campeche is one of the oldest cities in the Yucatan. It was heavily fortified in order to fend off pirate attacks. When we were there is was miserably hot. :)

The sun god. I think Katie thought we looked alike...

From Fuerte San Miguel in Campeche, overlooking the sea.

Chocolate Frappe.

Yummy quesadilla in some random town on the coast where we stopped for lunch.

Orchid at Rio Bec Dreams. We missed most of the flowers since we missed the rain.

This is a staircase at Balamku. You can imagine how much damage trees can do to a ruin over the course of 1000 years.

Pottery shard our guide found at Balamku.

Hawk at Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.

This is a ruin under restoration at Calakmul. notice how it melts into the side of the hill. Really, the ruin is the hill.

A fox at Calakmul.

A different species of toucan (than Katie posted previously) in Calakmul.

Jungle in Calakmul. Flat, isn't it.

Katie in Calakmul.

Tower #? in Calakmul.

Ocellated Turkey.

Another ocellated turkey

Some sort of night heron.

Termite nest in Calakmul Reserve.

Some sort of epiphyte in Calakmul

Ocean at Tulum

Little crab friend.

Fishing is fun, even at 5:30 am in Mexico.

Tulum

Sunrise...almost.

Pretty, isn't it.