Mexican Riviera Adventure

Well, the adventure is over. I have returned and am still a little boat-lagged (the world still feels like it’s tilting left and right). Cindie and I found a few nice little treasures while we were there, which we are going to try and get appraised soon. If they are what we think they are, we will have a few nice investment rocks. If they turn out to be crap, we bought them at stores that are “guaranteed” by Carnival, so we can at least get our money back on them. Also, customs let us through without even really paying attention, so that was nice.

We made stops in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas.
In PV, we went into the jungle and did a zip-line adventure thing, which was a blast. We did not see much of the city, unfortunately, so I cannot testify as to how nice it was.
In Mazatlan, we took a taxi to the “gringo-zone”, as I call it, and spent some time shopping and avoiding wackos trying to sell us crap on the beach. We did buy a few things there though.
In Cabo, we went snorkeling. Unfortunately, the water was only 65 degrees, so it was a little uncomfortable. It was still nice though, and we had a little time to hang out in the gringo-zone back at the port before we had to get on the ship again.
Just from our short excursions through each city, we counted 4 Subways in PV, 4 McDonalds in Mazatlan, and Cabo had a pretty large assortment of American restaurants and fast food places around the port.

The ship itself was pretty swanky, even if the staterooms were pretty tiny. Free food is nice, and we took advantage of it. Almost everything we had there was excellent, except (oddly enough) the lobster. The buffets were also pretty nice, but the dining room experience was well worth the trip. Also, the staff was from all over the world and everyone was insanely nice (I’m assuming from drug use). I wanted to sneak onto deck 4 where they all live and apparently have a staff lounge/pool/spa/etc to see how much they complain about the fat stupid Americans that probably make some of them rich in their own countries when they return after their contract is completed. From what I learned from talking to some of them, many contracts range from 5 months to a year.

If I have time this coming weekend, I will post pictures. We have a DVD coming from the zip-line thing which I will rip apart for some still frames and short videos to post as well.

I guess that’s about it. I need to get to work now, as I see from my email that some people forgot that I was on vacation.