Winter Vacation in the Tropics

Happy New Year! Did I say that already? Before I get into my plans for the new year, I thought I'd give you a quick update on how I saw the last year off.

It was a great send off to 2011 - after all, the year I was born deserves a proper farewell. We started (or rather began the end of) it off with a trip to Mexico. Did I do anything new there? Let's see:

1. The day we landed there was a visit from Santa - the guy travels, at my daycare one day, in Mexico the next and we even got to see his personal helicopter.
   
2. We also celebrated Christmas! Let me explain this to you. You know how you get gifts on your birthday? Apparently Christmas is a special birthday on which everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) gets gifts. It's really cool having an extra Birthday!
3. Moving on, I also got to see one of the wonders of the modern world - the great pyramid at Chichen Itza.
4. Even more wonderful for me was all the time I got to spend doing fun activities such as:
• Playing on the grass - which was a bit prickly, but fun
  
• Swimming ( read splashing) in the nice pool and even getting a little nap on Baba every time I was in there
  
• Playing with sand on the beach - it was the first time I was actually encouraged to make a mess
  
• Taking a dip in the ocean - this just seemed a bit cold and unnecessarily choppy. Not really the most fun I had on vacation
  
5. Adding to all of this was a number of side trips including
   • A catamaran on which we went sailing and from which Amma and Baba went snorkeling
     
   • A van that took us to Chichen Itza, the Airport, and a number of other places
     

Of course what made all of this even more fun was the company! I had my friends Ansh and Anushka with me all the time. Unfortunately they had to bring their parents along as well, otherwise we had Amma and Baba completely outnumbered.

Here are some pictures from the trip.