After a night of huge swells and a constant rocking of the ship, we woke to the lights of Mazatlan in the distance. By 7am we were at breakfast and the ship was slowing entering the port.
We dashed back to the room and packed our travel bag. We booked the old Mazatlan walking tour the day before. So we put on our hiking shoes and headed down to deck 4.
We were met by our tour guide, Shelia. She was is an American who moved to Mazatlan back in 1981. We boarded a little shuttle that took us to the main port building. Mazatlan does not have a cruise port, the dock area is a commercial dock so we had to be escorted by shuttle to a safe area. Once in the port building Shelia got two cab vans that took the group down to the sea wall.
The weather was warm, but overcast. It sprinkled on us for most of the day. But it was nothing for two Oregonians. We walked along the sea wall. We got to see a cliff diver, who swam to shore and asked for money. Then he started swearing at the crowds who did not tip him. There was another gentleman who was collecting tips for the diver, and we are not sure that they were together. From the diver’s reaction and the hasty retreat of the other guy…. We are guessing not.
We then walked down to the old town area and stopped in a little shop. We got a free drink (soda pop) and had our first restroom break. We didn’t buy anything.
The tour continued thru the old town area. Shelia explained the history of the mansions that make up the old town 
area. Most are greatly in disrepair. But a few looked kinda cool, either of us are ready to move there.
We stopped by the oldest working bakery in Mazatlan. Joshua bought some gingerbread cookies.
We then stopped by a museum, overlooking a nice little square. We then headed over to the opera house and then walked over to the cathedral. From there we visted the city market and the senior frog store where we picked up some cool board shorts and a t-shirt for Anthony’s nephew.
After shopping the tour ended and we headed back to the boat with Mike and Mike, a couple from Canada that we met on the tour. We did a little more shopping at the port shops and then reboarded the board.
We had dinner at the buffet market and then it was NAP time!
After our nap Anthony headed down to the spa, on our first day aboard the ship Anthony won a free foot and ankle massage. IT WAS HEAVENLY!
We headed down to dinner at about 7:00pm, which was ok. We headed back to the room and watched DVD’s that we brought and then headed to bed early.
Oh we got a letter on our door, since they canceled our day in Cabo San Lucas they credited our account $9.01 per guest… not quite $20.00 bucks wooopie!
Our photos from the day can be found HERE, should be good as we had dueling cameras.