Nov-Dec 2009 (Whistler, Cancun, Dallas)

 

We had a pretty busy couple of vacations during Thanksgiving and Christmas. For Thanksgiving we went to a Ski Resort in Whistler, Canada. November 2009 was the snowiest month in the history of Whistler - so lot of snow to play in. Whistler is where the winter Olympics is going to happen in a couple of months. We went with our friends Vidhu, Raghu-Guna and new friends Henry-Maria and their families. The kids had a lot of fun as always. I went skiing with Sabree and Prithiv. I  was horrible but Sabree and Prithiv were very patient with me. If not for me they would have had a lot more fun - they are so much better than me. They cover in 10 minutes the distance that I cover in about 2 hours. Kylah also had fun sledding.

Next we went to Dallas and were joined by Sujatha's cousin Jaya, her husband Mohan and their kids Abhi and Vikram and all of us went to Cancun, Mexico for 6 days. Cancun is a fantastic place. We wish we had spent at a minimum another 4 days there. There is so much to do that we ended up not relaxing as much we would have liked. We stayed at 2 resorts - both of them were very good in different ways. The highlights of the trip in the sequence we did it:

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Parasailing: Floating up in the sky a thousand feet over the ocean overlooking all of Cancun while being pulled by a speedboat.

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Dolphin experience: The kids did it. Amazing play time with the dolphins. The climax is when two dolphins get under each feet of a kid and push them really fast through the water and then lift them and throw them off the water

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XCaret park river float: Sujatha and Jaya floated through a natural river that flows for miles including through totally dark caves. The park also had huge Macau birds that Sabree loved to pet.

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Sea Trek: This is probably the most amazing experience of my life. This is a new technology and Cancun is one of the first places in the world to have it. We are fitted with a helmet with computer controlled oxygen and I along with the kids actually walked on the Ocean floor among thousands of fish!!

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XPlor Park: This is a new adventure park in Cancun. Here we rode in a amphibious vehicle through caves and rivers, rafted with hand paddles in crystal clear waters in the caves, sped very high over the jungles like Tarzan hanging on to steel wires called 'zip lines' etc. The most unique amusement park we have been to.

We returned from Cancun to Dallas and spent the next 10 days relaxing in Dallas eating tons of great India food and enjoying the wonderful hospitality of Mohan and Jaya. We even celebrated the New Years and my Birthday at their place.

Great vacation!!

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