Superfluous poll: what's on her head?

[Nanci]

I was on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula (about 60 miles south of Cancun in a little coastal town named Tulum...)

I know Tulum very well...It could have been a ray, or a flounder! They also like to sit buried in the sand. You need to learn the stingray shuffle if you are going to continue such activities...

Nanci

 

[Cegninedorf]

I know Tulum very well...It could have been a ray, or a flounder! They also like to sit buried in the sand. You need to learn the stingray shuffle if you are going to continue such activities...

Nanci

I learned to salsa, but as I had no intention whatsoever to return to the water, I chose to sit out the stingray shuffle dance lessons...

I'd love to return to Tulum to explore the pyramids more; there just wasn't enough time to see everything, but spending time at that resort was the most amazing de-stressing detox ever...it's actually now one of my two "happy places" when I stress out; I remember that amazing afternoon that I spent on a lounge chair right by the water, under a palm tree, listening to the water & feeling the warm breezes and just snoozing away...it was perfect...

The other happy place is on another beach, Sainte Anne, on the island of Guadeloupe...amazing...and there I *did* get into the water, a few times! I wore a very shiny silver swimsuit -- it was Victoria's Secret, so it was super-shiny like a new quarter! -- and an angelfish made a complete circle around me, leaping in & out of the water...and other little fish came to clean my silver toenails -- I have a thing for silver -- and it didn't hit me until later that they all thought that I was just a big silver fish. Thank God that nothing tried to mate with me... I never wore that swimsuit again...

Though, when I was still adventuresome at age 17, I snorkeled out too far when visiting the island where Gilligan's Island had been filmed, in the Bahamas...and I went alone. I didn't realize how far I'd gone until I felt a cold stream envelope me & I looked down to see nothing but black below me. Yeah, I just about piddled myself because I'd never done something like that before...but I did see lots of little fish around me...and when I got back (like a madwoman), I heard that the barracuda were hatching...I don't know much at all about barracuda's living habits, but I do know that they're big & nasty and that's all I needed to know to not ever do something like that again!

And...it just hit me: while I don't know your heritage, just about every Mexican to whom I've said "Tulum" has no idea where I'm talking about...more people in this country -- I guess those who can afford a vacation -- know where I'm talking about...hmmm...

 

[zeeboismysnake]

I voted for other, although my idea is probably the mourning (I just can't beleive its over) harry potter freak talking. I think it looks like some Harry Potter thing. Like, there's kind of an H at the top. Then there's the big thing below it that (I think) looks like a wand with sparks or something coming out.
Maybe I'm crazy, maybe I'm determined to see the Harry Potter in everything :shrugs: the world may never know...

 

[Drizzt80]

It's so obvious I can't believe nobody else has mentioned it . . .

Hope I helped settle the debate! :sidestep:
D80

 

[Nanci]

And...it just hit me: while I don't know your heritage, just about every Mexican to whom I've said "Tulum" has no idea where I'm talking about...more people in this country -- I guess those who can afford a vacation -- know where I'm talking about...hmmm...

I'm not Mexican, I'm Minnesotan! I know about Tulum/Akumal from diving. I love that scene at Tulum in "An Officer and a Gentleman" where they are on the beach at Tulum. I've been there! I love those ruins- being on the coast, and how they are smaller than the others. I got to visit Akumal before the palms were all taken out by a hurricane- it was beautiful! There is some of the best cave diving in the world in that area. And the people are the friendliest, nicest people in the world. They treat you like family from the moment they meet you.

Nanci

 

[Cegninedorf]

I'm not Mexican, I'm Minnesotan! I know about Tulum/Akumal from diving. I love that scene at Tulum in "An Officer and a Gentleman" where they are on the beach at Tulum. I've been there! I love those ruins- being on the coast, and how they are smaller than the others. I got to visit Akumal before the palms were all taken out by a hurricane- it was beautiful! There is some of the best cave diving in the world in that area. And the people are the friendliest, nicest people in the world. They treat you like family from the moment they meet you.

Nanci

Oh, I wasn't saying that you're Mexican, just that you prove my point: because you're *not* Mexican, you know where Tulum is! Every Mexican to whom I've mentioned "Tulum" has no clue where I'm talking about...including my Mexican boyfriend & his family.

You know, I've seen "An Officer & a Gentleman" and I don't remember that they were in Tulum...hmm. And oh, yes -- the people were amazing to me, as well. I had a brilliant time with the people from the moment that I landed in Cancun because I got the chance to speak Spanish again. Sure, I can speak Spanish here, but it's much more fun where the native language is Spanish & very few people speak English. I got to play translator for the group I was with & I had an absolute blast. A couple of weeks after I was last there, Hurricane Irma came through and wreaked havoc on the area; I really hoped that all was well with everyone that I met & where I'd been.

Deep sea diving? I'll let you tell the stories on that one... Do you plan to return soon? Perhaps my tax return this year will go for some fun in the sun...I'm itching to go back.

 

[Cegninedorf]

It's so obvious I can't believe nobody else has mentioned it . . .

Hope I helped settle the debate! :sidestep:
D80

That is perfectly perfect! You certainly put the smack down on this debate...the boyfriend would definitely agree with you, too! The debate, c'est fini!

 

[jazzgeek]

Then it looks like an owl, with a spike coming out of its head, holding up its wings like a choir director...

Whoa.

I'll have what she's having.

regards,
jazz

 

[Merlinator]

I couldn't see anything when it was right side up but upside down it looks a lot like a horseshoe crab.

 

[Cflaguy]

Gets my vote...

That is perfectly perfect! You certainly put the smack down on this debate...the boyfriend would definitely agree with you, too! The debate, c'est fini!

What I thought of the first time I saw it.

 

[Cflaguy]

Where my pic...

go? Didn't post the first time.

 

[Sisuitl]

I couldn't see anything when it was right side up but upside down it looks a lot like a horseshoe crab.

I totally agree. Horseshoe crab, with an "H" hovering above it's head.

 

[Fizzlefry22]

It's an angry Teddybear... :grin01:

Sheesh...here you all are, looking for cool stuff. :sidestep:

 

[Ginafish]

Totally the Bat-signal. To the Batcave, Robin! :sidestep:

 

[Bwana]

It's a stingray, duh.

 

[erosdq]

It looks like a bottle to me.

 

[joblack83]

??

Upright it looks like the bat signal...but upside down it looks like a lady with one of those ball gowns from the old days that make it so they couldn't see how well formed the rear or the legs were.

 

[joblack83]

??

Or rather instead of the ball gown could be a Marolyn Monroe thing with the wind blowing up the dress.

 

[mommyof2]

I think it's a stingray. A top view of a stingray.

 

[Fizzlefry22]

I can see the stingray too, but I like the angry teddybear more! :grin01: