Australians -- the crazy people on the snorkeling boat who go off on their own and give Jorge the guide fits
Bebidas --mostly agua mineral con gas, por favor
Chichen Itza -- contains the most beautiful carvings of jaguars eating human hearts that you will ever see
Dengue es Mortal! -- slogan on a sign in a village south of Coba, urging residents to eradicate mosquitoes
East Wind -- blowing off the ocean at Tulum, straight through every crack and crevice of the cabana
Farmacia -- Hay Tylenol?
Gran Cenote -- looking down through your mask, past the fish, rock formations rise from blackness in the crystalline water. Bats wheel and squeak just above your head.
Hola -- a good start, but can fool one into forgetting one's vocabularic limitations
Iguana -- Hey, that rock just moved.
Jugo de Naranja -- the unsafe breakfast temptation
Kukulkan, Pyramid of -- what you force yourself to climb at Chichen Itza, after having shamefully wussed out 2/3 of the way up Nohuch Mul at Coba (vertigo)
Legumes -- with breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Mayan Healing Ceremony -- offered for an unspecified sum by the management of the cabañas
Nohuch Mul -- the great pyramid at Coba, a god-child's abandoned project in the jungle, which you climb MOST of the way up
Obedezca las señales -- signs every few kilometers along Hwy 307
Palapa -- the palm-leaf thatching that's usually overhead
Quintana Roo -- the name of the state on the Yucatan's Carribbean coast, which sounds like a character in the first draft of The House at Pooh Corner
Reef -- where you go to bother the fish while they mind their own business, hovering over them with your horrible Darth-Vader snorkel breathing
Stench -- produced by the mastiff owned by cabaña management. He likes to roll, we think, in cosas which are muertos
T-shirt -- how can they all be filthy if it's only Monday?
Unwell -- the general state of one's stomach
Villadolid -- avoiding the toll road coming back from Chichen Itza takes you through here. You'll get lost, but it's interesting.
Water -- what you can't believe you are actually running out of, again
Xel Ha -- massive water park, tourist-bus magnet, and surprisingly fun
Zama -- "Dawn," the original name of the Mayan settlement at Tulum (which means "The Wall"), and very appropriate

Pictures to come.