Greetings from Acapulco

Saturday night right after we blogged, there was an announcement that we had a medical emergency. Instead of a leisurely trip to our next port, we were going full speed ahead and into a strong wind. It turned out to be a pretty rocky ride through the night. We arrived at Huatulco at 8.00 am instead of 1 pm. NOTE: we are onshore in Acapulco which means that the computer really wants to write in Spanish and keeps reverting to that and the keyboard is just enough different to be very confusing. Back to the story: the ambulance came and went. We went to church, walked to town, had lunch and then a tour. We are in HUATULCO. It is a created village. Mexico saw what a success Cancun has been and purchased land on the west side of Mexico and proceeded to build a fishing village for cruise ships since 2004 also hotels. The effect is a sanitized version of a Mexican village. The tour was rather disappointing. Of course there wasn't much to see in the first place. Today we are in Acapulco where we have been many times. We decided to skip the tours and get our own taxi....the driver kept calling it 'my truck.' I had visions of the four of us riding in the back of a pickup ...pretty picture, but he did show up with a Suburban. We did the usual silver factory, market, views, and Johnny Weismuller's (the original Tarzan) home. Back to the ship for lunch. Do you get the feeling we eat all the time ?...well, that's about right. Please excuse my typing. This afternoon we are seeing Mexican dancers. I'm sure they have margaritas. Tomorrow we are at sea.