Xel-Ha was one of the two "theme parks" we went to in Mexico. The attractions included: tubing/snorkeling down the huge river, all you can eat buffets, dolphins (which we saw jumping so many times, yet nobody managed to get a picture), clip jumping, cenotes/caves, a super tall water slide (which unfortunately was closed for kids 18 and under because of the windy conditions on the day we were there), and tons of Iguanas!! It was awesome...but not without it's stressful moments.
We did the river first. Mom and Summer in a tube and the rest of the family with snorkels and flippers. Sounded like a good idea...only problem, the two groups got in the water at different places and when Mom got in the tube with Summer, it was totally awkward and uncomfortable. It felt like hours before we met up down the river and I had someone to help me get out of the tube without flipping Summer out too!
Once I finally got situated with Summer (with a lot of help from Mike), we turned around to join the kids and Tyson was gone. We spent a good 10-15 min searching the water. I even got that panic in my voice and started thinking who we needed to talk to to get a search party going! Turns out, he had no idea we were working on fixing my tube situation and he thought we had went ahead without him, so he went ahead searching for us. Yeah, I guess we should have started the river by telling everyone to stay together. Scary!!
Down the river there was a place to do some cliff jumping so the big kids got out and did that...and in the process lost one set of snorkeling gear. By 2/3 of the river Summer was done. Luckily we had life jackets because it was a long swim back to shore once we ditched our tubes!!
After the river and lunch we explored a cave and swam a bit more. It sure was beautiful.
Summer was completely exhausted (from being pushed and carried around I guess) so she slept through dinner.
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