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Old 07-09-2008, 06:54 PM   #91
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I have a sneaky suspicion we haven't heard the last of this watch and its disappearing act! I'm going out on a limb that you leave with 2 watches!
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More great pics of the girls! That is strange about the watch... be careful where you put Mickey! I went to show DW your dolphin sig pic and you changed it! but I like the new one, too. Chloe looks like a natural Tender Driver! That's pretty cool.
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I'm with HeatherD and figure the watch will show up.....something like that happened to me and when I climbed into bed the next night, I felt something on my foot, and it was my neckalce. LOL
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Hello Sue!

I got really excited when I saw your story! My husband and I saw your ship set sail that day! We were deep sea fishing that same day in San Pedro and I just about fell off the boat with excitment when I saw the Disney Magic! I had completely forgot that it was here on the west coast for the Mexican Riviera cruises!
My family and I will be on the same ship this coming February so when I saw the ship I was yelling "THAT'S MY BOAT!! THAT'S MY BOAT!!!"
I must of looked like a whack job! Oh well!!
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I got really excited when I saw your story! My husband and I saw your ship set sail that day! We were deep sea fishing that same day in San Pedro and I just about fell off the boat with excitment when I saw the Disney Magic! I had completely forgot that it was here on the west coast for the Mexican Riviera cruises!
My family and I will be on the same ship this coming February so when I saw the ship I was yelling "THAT'S MY BOAT!! THAT'S MY BOAT!!!"
I must of looked like a whack job! Oh well!!
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I'm with HeatherD and figure the watch will show up.....something like that happened to me and when I climbed into bed the next night, I felt something on my foot, and it was my neckalce. LOL
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Day 4, Part 1

Day 4, Part 1 – Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

Before we were even awake the ship was docked in Mazatlan.

As I said in my last installment, we ordered a room service with the delivery option of 7:00 – 7:30. At 6:45 I awakened by the phone ringing. It was room service telling me that breakfast was on its way. I felt crabby at first to be awakened fifteen minutes early, but was back to my normal self after my coffee arrived. The breakfast was just your typical continental breakfast fare – fruit, bagels, muffins, cereal – but it was great not to have to make time to go get breakfast at the buffet.

After we ate it was time to pack my backpack with water bottles, sunscreen, hats, and other things for the excursion. I unzipped and opened the main compartment and there was my darn watch lying innocently on the bottom. I can only guess that the first night my backpack was sitting next to the nightstand with the zipper partially unfastened ready to gulp up my watch when I knocked it off. And while I was searching for it the next morning I tossed the backpack out of the way so I could look for the watch around the base of the nightstand. I felt really dumb, but at lease I finally knew what had happened to it!

At 8:30 we left the rooms and headed to Rockin' Bar D for our 8:45 meet time for our “City Highlights & Mexican Mardi Gras Fiesta” excursion. Described on the DCL website as “Check out some of Mazatlán's best — like the age-old Cathedral and the death-defying cliff divers — before enjoying a traditional music-and-dance show at a local theater.”

After waiting for a few minutes we received our excursion stickers and were promptly led off the ship and straight to a waiting bus. The first thing I noticed was that the port had a very peculiar (read unpleasant) odor. I guessed this was to be expected, since the main industry in Mazatlan is fishing, not tourism, and the port in Mazatlan is an industrial port.




Accordingly, tourists are not permitted to walk through the port and must be on a tour bus or special trams that ferry people to an from the entrance.
While waiting in line to get on the bus I turned around and took this picture of the ship. The people in green are the tour guides waiting to lead groups off to buses or trams.





The day was quite overcast which suited me fine.




As we settled onto the bus our tour guide Rudolfo introduced himself to the group. This picture gives you a pretty good idea of his personality.




He spoke excellent English and was very knowledgeable about Mazatlan and had a great amount of civic pride for his city.

The first thing we did was drive through the city on our way to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The part we went through must not have been the nice part of town because it was quite dirty and covered with graffiti. After 10 minutes we arrived at the Cathedral. We had 20 minutes to look around. Construction on the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Basílica de la Inmaculada Concepción) began in 1855 with the main body of the building finished in 1880. Its two towers were constructed in 1894 – 1895. According to Rudolfo this cathedral is the oldest and biggest of the 61 churches in Mazatlan.

It was hard to get a good picture of the building as a whole because we were so close up to it, but its exterior is quite beautiful and unusual.







It also has interesting doors.




A view inside from the main entrance.




The ceiling.




The large alter area has many marble statues of saints and angels.




The wall above the alter has a beautiful painting which seemed to glow.




In each corner of the cathedral were large, ornate alcoves.





The entry of the cathedral was flanked by two statues wearing real clothes. The kids thought this was very funny because we are catholic and none of statues they'd seen at any of the churches we've been to had been wearing clothes before.




Coming soon: World-famous cliff divers ??!
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What a beautiful cathedral - I hope you got to see the world famous cliff divers. I've heard so much about them and would love to see some photos of them.
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Once again, great photos!! And with tongue in cheek, I eagerly await the photos of the cliff diver "hunk!" (If he was the same "hunk" we saw.)
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Yay for finding the watch!! Thanks for sharing the beautiful shots of the cathedral. How interesting to see the statues wearing clothes. I have not seen that before either.

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Once again, great photos!! And with tongue in cheek, I eagerly await the photos of the cliff diver "hunk!" (If he was the same "hunk" we saw.)
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