Blogs from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, North America - page 9

Hello everyone! Today was a pretty uneventful day. We were in Mazatlan for a few hours and then I had to get back to the ship for a frist aid training. It was a pretty basic common sense training, things like..."apply pressure to a wound" and "flush eyes with water". Anyways, we got off the ship in the afternoon and headed the the beach which is called The Golden Zone....to be honest, it wasn't too golden. I think that Mazatlan is more of a "visit the historic sites, Pacifico Brewery, seafood restaurants" kind of place. But I guess no day at the beach can really be a bad day at the beach, right?! So we just laid out in the sun, took a walk along the shore and relaxed. Today "we" consisted of my roommate Sally, ... read more

Hi Folkies!! So I just got back from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, where I was at the annual international (world's 4th largest) Carnaval!! I took the 9 hour bus ride on Friday night, and got there Saturday morning ridiculously early. I went to Sonia's house (one of the exchange students from the States), and just passed out for a few more hours. Then, after breakfast, Rosemary(Canada) came over with Lilian(Switzerland) and a new exchanger, Niki (Australia). Sonia and Niki went to get their hair done, because they, along with a few more girls (Japan, and France) were Beauty Queens ! Apparently they always use the exchange students that live in Mazatlan as Queens because it's just so convenient. haha. But there were also actually Beauty Queens: Honduras, Hawaii, Miss Teen USA apparently, some other ones, and they vote ... read more

An appropriate theme for our honeymoon would definitely be "Mule" or “donkey.” In Mazatlan, we took a ferry to a small island off the coast and stayed at a beach for the day. It was a bit overcast, but interesting nonetheless. We spent most of the day lounging by the shore. After lunch we did the next most obvious thing… we took a short excursion riding more donkeys around the island. This time, I had a donkey willing to behave itself.... These donkeys or mules of whatever they are made us sad, though. They just looked overworked and underfed. I wanted to smuggle them off of the island and home to Missouri, but common sense prevailed. How would I get them into my luggage? The most interesting part of the day was the piñata. I have ... read more

well i think i've cried about 50 times this week which is really lame but i'm not even exaggerating. everyone is leaving and i never thought it would be so hard. i expected the whole getting here and making new friends and not know the city and being scared and all that good stuff.....but i NEVER expected the end to be the hardest part. its so sad cause it went by so fast and i feel like i just met these people and now BAM its over. Its so different from anything because when i left calgary i was like OHya its sad and all but i'll be back and everyone will be here and it will be fun....but here its like ok bye i may NEVER see you again and we will never be back ... read more

Ok so i con´t know how to describe this last week....especially the weekend. its been so good but in a bitterzweet way for sure because everyone is getting ready to head out and most people are actually leaving THIS friday....i never thought this day would come ANyways, so last monday I went on a tour of the Cervezeria where they make the Pacifico beer which is golden. but basically the tour was all in spanish so i only caught a bit of it but it seemed pretty interesting and they gave us free beer and we went to the top of the towers where we watched the sunset and it was nicest view i´ve had of Mazatlan besides parasailing. Tuesday night was carlos´last night here so we bought a cake for him (the same kind that ... read more