Post cheesecake, we ventured away from the blue line <gasp!>
through the city
and towards the water.
The water looked pretty nice.
We had some moments on the Malecon (boardwalk.)
We even saw a ship named the Titanik.
That name didn’t seem that great for a boat. Why not just call the boat “Please Sink Me Now“? I’m happy our boat’s got some boring name like the Veendam. Wait, what does that name mean anyway in Dutch?
Since Nicholas actually booked us on a retirement cruise, we really stood out quite a bit for being somewhat younger.
That made it somehow easy for us to meet and get to know the entertainers on board.
See, the keyboard player and I are best friends already:
That’s Ashley and Nick and Marino. I liked that both Ashley and Nick were from Canada. But they didn’t recognize me as their Winter Olympics mascot. Minus points for that.
But they let me play in the band. Ok extra points for that. They were pretty good and I liked to sit and hear them sing. So points for that too.
During our port call to Mazatlan, we were told by another awesome performer, Michael Bragg that the must-go place for wifi + cheesecake was Allegro. So we went to find said famed cafe.
Nicholas worked. I ate cheesecake.
Good deal.
Good cheesecake.
Now I understand that Mexico has been getting a bad rep for crime and safety, and that Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta were both on the watch list.
What I didn’t expect was what the locals decided to do to combat it.
They basically posted people everywhere to make sure you couldn’t get lost. And then they didn’t let you get lost.
First there was the free and compulsory shuttle.
That got you to the gate.
Then they stationed volunteers at every block.
And added a blue line for you to follow directly into town.
The policia even said hello and good morning. They never say hello.
So you couldn’t get lost, you couldn’t go off track, and if you did the policia and volunteers were already there to guide you back. Reminds me a little of the happiest place on earth – Disneyland.
