Mady: These are my friends John and Janelle, they came for a week. This is us eating our supper. They are from Nova Scotia like we are.
Cenotes
Mady: This is an underground cenote (spring) formed when a metorite hit the ground. The meteorites killed all the dinosaurs when it hit the ground like a million years ago or something. When the meteorite hit the ground there was a big wave of energy and it made holes all over the earth around where the metorite hit. The Maya used to use the cenotes to get water to drink and cook with. We got to swim in this cenote. And it was really really fun.
Jade: These are the stairs to the cenote, at first I thought it would be creepy, and I was scared. then it was cool. It was like this cave that had lights put in and if you knew Mako Mermaids, it was like that. The cenote had steps and we sat on them and then went swimming.
Salt Flats:
Jade: We are at the Salt Flats. There is so much salt that when I stepped in and tried to float, I relaxed and didn’t have to do anything, I just floated. No matter how hard I tried not to float, I just floated. The reason I’m floating is because of the salt. We also collected salt rocks, they are rocks that have salt on them. Some of the salt ponds have sparkling pink. There are little tiny shrimp in the water and that’s why it is a little pink. These salt flats were used when the Maya still lived in their pyramids.
Flamingos:
Mady: These are girl flamingos because the boys are really really bright pink. If flamingoes eat white shrimp they turn whitish pink. If they eat a lot of pink shrimp they turn pink. And it was really fun seeing them close up.
Cemetaries:
Mady: We stopped to look at the cementary and this is what the cemetaries are. They make little monuments to remember people by.
Jade: They get buried and they put these little houses there to remember when they died. They houses have the name of the person, the year they were born and the year they died. One said 1996-2003.
Sopa de Lima:
Jade: This is my friend Mirna and she is teaching my Mom how to make Sopa de Lima (Lime Soup) my favourite food in Mexico. Whenever there is sopa de lima on the menu, I ask for it. The one Mirna made was 100% better than a restaurant. While Mirna and my mother were making the sopa (soup), my mom gave me matematicos (which is math). She gave me 1496 + 145. It was easy because you take the ending and if it is over ten you add it to the next one and so on – something like that. The answer here is 1641.
Mady: We went to a restaurant called Capitan Flores (Captain Flowers) and we got to eat octupus, octupus ink, snail and a little bit of squid. It was really cool because the octupus ink was black and a little spicy, but it wasn’t my favourite. My favourite seafood is shrimp because they are really good, because they sprinkle salt on them and they taste better with salt.
Seashells and Dolphins:
Mady: I collect shells on the beach and colour them and then I sell them to people who come to the house. I also do a lot of work around the house to get some tips because I’m trying to save up to buy a camper with nine beds to travel around the world with.
Mady: We saw dolphins from right at our house! We saw this thing jump out of the water. Do you know Mandy, from Dolphin Tale 2? We saw a a dolphin with a little yellow thing on it’s fin just like the real Mandy! Dolphins eat squid, shrimp and fish.
Jade: This is a sand castle that I built. I drew a circle in the sand and that circle is the ditch. As I dig around the ditch, the centre part rises up.