Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Today is Cabo San Lucas. No dock here so we have to tender in.

As the ship came in we saw the big natural arch, El Arco. Whoopie! Been there, done that many times. Not long after anchoring captain Dag came on the ship speakers. Unless it is an emergency, announcements are only in public areas and on channel 2 on TV. This announcement came on all speakers. It seams captain DO do, I mean Dag, no I don’t, forgot to let anyone know the time had changed. All the restaurant and room staff was real happy about that. Now they would have to put in an extra hour. Wait until everyone finds out that we are also in the wrong port.

We had been here twice in March and by golly it hadn’t changed much. It was a little warmer and there were far fewer tourists. The Kapels had never been here so we hired a big van and driver and went touring.

There is a very large area of tourist junk stores. Well over a mile. We went to the next town, San Jose. Do you know the way to San Jose? Well, it’s a big highway with all kinds of signs to direct you. It is 20 miles to San Jose and the entire way is lined with fabulous hotels and resorts. It is very hilly and mountainous with one great view after another. All the biggest world wide hotel names are represented.

San Jose is an even bigger tourist junk town except much older with very narrow streets. Then from San Jose we went back to Cabo. Guess what we saw on the way back? Yep. The same thing only from the other side of the highway and in reverse order.

For dinner we met with two other couples in the main dinning room. Both have homes in Coconut Grove in South Miami. One couple also has a home in downtown Chicago. They live in the same building as Opra. They say she walks around looking as she did in Color Purple. Both couples are getting off in LA.

We did have some excitement at dinner. There is a couple aboard with a 2 year old child. Several times that we know of, they just sat there and let him scream in the restaurants. They did it again tonight. Some one said something about it at which time the father got hostile and a push or two resulted. Somehow a woman got knocked down and a code blue was called for her. That’s when the doctor and his staff have to come running. Several officers and the Captain came also. Oh what fun.

The entertainment tonight was a comedian. He sucked big time. I knew all his old jokes and his delivery was awful.

Sherman Out

(Posted on behalf of Sherman Rootberg)