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 Originally we had planned on going snorkeling for a good part of the day, but after Rotan we decided to cancel it. It was neat snorkeling in the Coral Reef, but it was difficult to see where the kids were and to see the fish all at the same time. Everyone enjoyed it but it wasn't our favorite so we decided we could save the money and just cancel snorkeling in Cozumel. I thought it would be fun to just go out and walk and see what we could find and see. It generally worked out well. Just outside the port was a shopping center with a little miniature Mayan temple that you could walk into and see a little museum. The museum was free and had a lot of neat little pieces of information. We then walked out where a man had a macaw and an iguana that he was taking pictures of people with. (We didn't get a picture but we got to see him.) We then decided to go towards the marina where we were originally going to go to see if we could see some wildlife.  We saw a number of little lizards...

 Today we did similar to yesterday, got up and went to breakfast and then hurried off the ship. We were running a little behind so we didn't make it to meet up with our tour guide until almost 9:00am. As soon as we did we got into the bus and headed to the Mayan ruins. It was a two and half hour drive. The tour guide was good and told us a little bit about the area as we headed out and then answered any questions we had. On the drive we got to see a number of little towns and one of our church buildings.  The Mayan sight was amazing. I had no idea how many buildings their were. When we first walked in we saw howler monkeys which the kids were really excited about being able to see in the wild. The tour guide told us a lot of neat things about the Mayan people and showed us where there were sights that were still uncovered. We climbed to the top of the temple. It was amazing how high it was. We then went to another part where there were a number of different buildings one of wh...