OUR SECOND DAY IN MAZATLAN, MEXICO

Mazatlan, Mexico

It is our second day in this gorgeous Mexican beach resort city. The picture above was taken from a yacht as we traveled through several islands off the coast of Maztlan.


Like every important port city, Mazatlan has an aquariam with several aquatic shows. We were honored in watching the sea lion show. These sea creatures make the voyage every year from the Canadian coast to Mazatlan, where they stay from November to late March before they return back home. These stayed behind due to age and were trained by the aquariam, eventually after two years they are released back into the wild.

We also saw the bird's show. Several species of birds performing to a captive audience. I learned that female birds are smarter than male birds. Go figure!

We took a break from our vacation to listen to several local real estate offers. This particular negotiation got very interesting since we were close to closing on one particular deal that would have given us an investment in a vacation home in Mazatlan. You can see the representative and I looking over some numbers. Although, Mazatlan is in Mexico, real estate business deals are handled in U.S. dollares.

At night we had to go to Senor Frog's one last time. To the left of this young waiter is WCM Claudia Munoz, in pink, and to the right is my oldest daughter Faith - who had a crush on him.

The waiter realizing that Faith had a crush on him, did all he could to give our daughter a nice memory.

Youth!

WE CONTINUED OUR JOURNEY TO MAZATLAN, MEXICO

Mazatlan, Mexico

The Bible states that their is a time to cry and a time to laugh, a time to teardown and a time to rebuild. We had been mourning my mother's passing for eight weeks and as we deposited her ashes on the banks of the Rio Chico in Durango, as the leader of my family I decided to embark on the road of celebrate my mother's life.

As we reached the road joining Durango with the state of Sinaloa, we made a right turn and proceeded to Mazatlan.

I had not been in Mazatlan since my college days - and no, not spring break days, I was a milk drinking cookie eating college student. It was time 20-years later to return to the city that I had fallen in love with in my youth.

As we reached Mazatlan at nightfall, the following day we proceeded to board a ship that took us to several islands off the coast. Later we made it to Rock Island, "Isla de la Piedra", where we spent the majority of our day.

We rode the banana into the ocean and swam as a family on its beautiful sands. The picture above is of the island, I just mentioned.

Later we returned to our hotel in Mazatlan Proper in order to rest and go sightseeing, which leads me to a tourist tradition, which I will go into detail in my next post: SENOR FROG's.

I apologize for only including one picture today, I will try to post several later, so you can partake of the beautiful Mazatlan resort.