Acapulco, Mexico

On Monday we pulled into Acapulco Mexico. It was beautiful being in the front of the ship watching us come in.

We booked our tours through the ship just because we felt safer doing that. Here we did a bus tour around Acapulco and it was awesome.

Here are a few of our highlights from Acapulco.

Pulling into Acapulco. View from the ship.

These are the famous cliffs in Acapulco where diver's jump. I want to say it was around 130 ft. high.

If you look really closely you can see 2 diver's. This is one of the big things that Acapulco is known for are the cliff diver's. Many of the boys start very young. It is an art. There are boys in the water below who watch the height of the water and when it is high enough the diver's are given the okay to jump. At the top of the cliffs are 2 little worship places. Before the boys jump they always say a prayer to the Mother of Guadalupe..who they worship. No one has ever been severly injured or killed. The first girl just started jumping and she is 13 years old.

Here we are at a famous restaurant called Senor Frogs. They have the BEST guacamole ever!! The view from here was gorgeous.

In the evening we were walking along the beach and came to a bunch of men, boys pulling this big thick rope out of the water. We weren't sure what it was until we started talking to someone else from the ship. Every evening these men go way out into the water, in a small fishing boat, and drop the gigantic net. They pull the ropes in with them and continue pulling the rope in while the net is picking up fish. This is how they get their fresh fish everyday. It was a lot of work and took them a little about 2 hours to pull the net in and there were 12 guys pulling the rope...6 on each side! After watching this and thinking all the work they go to to feed their families you become very humbled and really see how blessed we are. There were kids running to get small fish and the mother's were standing behind the men with their bags. It was very interesting to watch how the people "live". And here was our home away from home. I have to say, I felt a little guilty getting back on this ship.