Second day in Cabo

 Hi all,

Monday was our second day in our first port, Cabo San Lucas, playground of the rich.  The amount of sleek, brilliantly shiny white, yachts is astounding.

It is a tender port, meaning that we are ferried ashore in the ship’s lifeboats.  Yesterday we mentioned that the wind was such that the tender service was halted early on Sunday.  We also mentioned that there was a bit of a miscommunication, or lack of communication, regarding the ship’s time.  Well, today a passenger, for whatever reason, was not in tune with ship time and missed the last tender back to the ship.  The ship did send a crew back for that one lucky person.  Lucky, because often those that are not back in time get left and must make their own way to the next post.  NOT a fun event.

We went ashore in the morning and walked several miles, just looking.  Well, looking and being approached by vendors selling all sorts of things.  Hats, silver jewelry, rubber iguanas, trips in glass bottomed boats.  It is amazing how many make a living with street hustles.

We didn’t go with the intention of buying anything, but John saw a vendor with a board with bracelets with dozens of names on them.  He asked if he had ‘Shalae’ and ‘Izzy’, the names of John’s heart nieces.  He didn’t but offered to make them there on the spot.  And he did.  He asked for a certain sum and settled for half the amount.  We left and sat in the shade for a bit and came back to him in time to watch him finish the second one.  Amazing, fingers flying, whipping the thread around and around, changing colors as the pattern emerged.  Well worth what we paid, more than we had agreed upon.

Tuesday we will be in Loreto, a much smaller and quieter town.  Village really.  It is another tender port, and we have a mission there.  We have been to Loreto once before but did not find a Christmas tree ornament.  We try to have one from each port we have been to and then when we decorate the tree, we reminisce about the trips.