Some things ought to be taken at face-value, like the theory of ancient astronauts, for instance. Oh, but you haven’t seen an ancient astronaut’s face to value, right? Now does the lack of that tidbit of information spoil the whole theory? Well, it doesn’t according to the German rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun, who said:
“Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity” (2002).
As it was a few years ago, I and my two accomplices: Shyrlena, my daughter and Alexis, my granddaughter had the experience of wandering the grounds of the Mayan people in Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. During that experience I accumulated some, maybe not so air tight, takeaways of my own, as …show more content…
So the first thing, the day after we landed, we pointed our antenna towards Mayan grounds, set our eyes rolling and our cameras on record. We were geared up with kid in a candy store like excitement. And the anticipation of seeing Cenote Sagrado and The Chichén Itzá Pyramid had us on Cloud 99.
Our guide told us, Cenote Sagrado is a lake that’s really a giant sink hold and is also a sacred place for the Mayan people. The Chichén Itzá Pyramid, the guide told us, that The United Nations of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had declared it a World Heritage and that The Chichén Itzá Pyramid is now one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Anxious to see both, but we hauled tails, first, to Cenote Sagrado.
Shyrlena, Alexis, and I walked down the slippery, limestone stairwell towards Cenote Sagrado, alongside people whose faces lit up with expectancy, like ours. We walked past people going back up the stairwell whose faces had been plastered with
“Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity” (2002).
As it was a few years ago, I and my two accomplices: Shyrlena, my daughter and Alexis, my granddaughter had the experience of wandering the grounds of the Mayan people in Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. During that experience I accumulated some, maybe not so air tight, takeaways of my own, as …show more content…
So the first thing, the day after we landed, we pointed our antenna towards Mayan grounds, set our eyes rolling and our cameras on record. We were geared up with kid in a candy store like excitement. And the anticipation of seeing Cenote Sagrado and The Chichén Itzá Pyramid had us on Cloud 99.
Our guide told us, Cenote Sagrado is a lake that’s really a giant sink hold and is also a sacred place for the Mayan people. The Chichén Itzá Pyramid, the guide told us, that The United Nations of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had declared it a World Heritage and that The Chichén Itzá Pyramid is now one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Anxious to see both, but we hauled tails, first, to Cenote Sagrado.
Shyrlena, Alexis, and I walked down the slippery, limestone stairwell towards Cenote Sagrado, alongside people whose faces lit up with expectancy, like ours. We walked past people going back up the stairwell whose faces had been plastered with