February Photo Challenge: Photographer’s Choice

Oh boy….am I late to the Linky party this month. PJ’s prompt for February was Photographer’s Choice and you’ll see a definite theme running through all my photos.

Our family just returned from a winter vacay to Cancun, Mexico. And, again, we weren’t completely sure it was going to happen because Entrepreneur’s mom took another fall and fractured two vertebrae in her neck. After surgery to fuse them together, we worked to put a plan in place that would allow Entrepreneur to go on vacation for a week….a vacay that he desperately needed….one that had been canceled twice already.

I pulled five six out of the gigabytes of photos taken to share with you.

Paradise 1
Mexico is our go-to place for winter vacation…specifically Cancun. We’ve been to Cabo, Acapulco and Playa del Carmen but Cancun is where we feel most comfortable. We started this family vacay tradition when our daughters were in elementary school. We now have a new generation hooked.

Paradise 2
Sometimes a shot just wanders in front of the camera. While looking at the ocean, I turned around to see this silhouetted against the blazing sunset.

Paradise 3
I took Peanut to see the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza and one of the stops was a cenote named Ik Kil. It’s 85 feet below the surface and is fed by rain and ground water. It’s 200 feet wide and no one has touched the bottom after diving off the limestone platforms. The water is a “refreshing” 70F/21C.

Paradise 4
The Hotel Zone in Cancun can boast of both sunrises and sunsets over the water. This sunset was captured while enjoying dinner and margaritas on a boardwalk overlooking the inland lake called Nichupte Lagoon. 

Paradise 5
Not to be outdone, the sunrises put on an equally magnificent show. I’m not normally up at zero-dark-thirty when on vacation, but when Peanut and I went on our day trip, we were waiting for the tour bus at 7am….perfect timing.

Paradise Bonus
Another family vacay is on the books. This one was important as we never know which family vacay will be Entrepreneur’s last one. It’s a challenge to coordinate eight people to get to one place around the same time, but once we get there, the memories are worth the effort.

There’s my Photographer Choice five-ish. I encourage you to stop by PJ’s place to see what other’s shared this month.  Please consider joining us next month!