Tuesday the 12th
This was our second day at
sea heading for our first port of call, Costa Maya, Mexico. We ordered coffee in our room and later had
lunch in the Horizon Court. It featured
American Lunch. We spent some time in
the library catching up on computer stuff.
I had put in a request for a
shout out to geocachers before we left Houston.
The meeting was set up for 3:30 in the Wheel House Bar. At this meeting we had 12 people. Half were cachers and the rest were
interested in knowing more about it. The
cachers were us and two couples from Louisiana.
We shared information on caches in the upcoming ports. All the other cachers had been to these ports
before. One cacher, Grand Penguin,
planned to replace the missing one in Belize City.
We went to the early show
featuring Duncan Tuck. He was an
excellent guitar player and he mixed that with comedy. All in all, an entertaining show. We went to our regular dining table. The couple from DC were not there
tonight.
Before returning to our cabin
we stopped in the Explorer’s Lounge and watched a Game called “Majority
Rules.” Back at our cabin we read for a
while, I also tried my hand at some more challenging Sudoku puzzles. Our tour
on Wednesday doesn’t start until 12:30 so we weren’t in a rush to go to bed.
Wednesday the 13th
We were docked in Costa Mayo
by 7 AM. I decided to go to find a
nearby cache before our tour. I left the
ship at about 8:30. Because of information given out at yesterday’s meeting, I
knew I had to go a couple of miles to Downtown Mahahual to find it. There was a shuttle to downtown.
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From the shuttle it was about
a 400’ walk to the cache location. The
cache was in an ammo box at the Tropicante Restaurant. Both workers and patrons knew where the box
was. I signed the log and took a picture
to “discover” a travel bug. When
traveling out of the country I usually don’t pick up a travel bug unless I know
it’s goal. I talked to one of the
patrons for a while. Two of the other
cachers on the Caribbean Princess showed up.
I took a taxi back to the
port. It was hot and humid. I was tired after walking from the port village
to the ship. I called Gerri and asked
her to meet me on the pier to go to the meeting place for our tour. The tour was on an air conditioned bus. The name of the tour was Mayan Cultural
Experience. Our first stop was a village
that had a small Mayan Temple. Our
guide explained the Mayans interest and abilities in astronomy and
mathematics. The construction of this
temple was based on the Mayan calendar.
Our next stop was the home of a Mayan family, Limones. We walked through the area observing how the
family lived. We had a snack of
taquitos. The chicken was prepared in an
underground oven similar to what the Hawaiians do. One of the family members gave a
demonstration of how the natives used to extract fiber from different leaves to
weave useful items.
It was a 45-minute drive back
to the port. Back on the ship we were
hot and tired. We decided to pass on the
dining room and have cheeseburgers on deck 15.
After eating we went to the Princess Theater and watched a show by the
ship’s dancers and singers called Do You Wanna Dance. Before returning to our cabin we watched
another trivia game. This time the theme
was Rock and Roll.
Back at the cabin we got
ready for bed and either read or worked on Sudoku puzzles until retiring.
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