"Dead Island"

We ventured to Isla Mujeres, Mexico this past week for my friend Cassie Green's wedding. It was a much needed vacation and good time spent with friends (mainly my girls!). As for the name of this post, I think Josh got his Spanish confused and was calling the island "dead island". When I promptly corrected him telling him it was "women island", he just said to me, "I like my interpretation better". Soooo...we spent an awesome 5 days together on "dead island". The wedding was at the hotel Cabanas Maria del Mar on North beach and it was nice and small and intimate. We didn't have to go very far for anything, which is always good in my book. Our first night there we went to a lovely dinner hosted by the Stephens clan, then Friday was the wedding and Saturday night we had another great dinner hosted by Cassie's mom, Darlene. Thanks to all of them for such great hospitality! Then on Saturday we stayed at the beach by the hotel and Sunday ventured down to the other end of the island with Liz and Jimmy to Garrafon, the local natural reef park. The have snorkeling, scuba, zip lines, kayaking, trails, etc. It was really a fantastic day and we even got a work out swimming in the choppy waves to look at little fish! (It nearly took Liz out for the day...) Here are a few pictures of our good times. Thanks to Liz, Jimmy, Meghan and Jake for making a very memorable weekend. Hanks, friends.