Day Four Tuesday, March 13, 2018
It's about time for bed and I just don't quite feel like writing at the moment. We watched Wonder, the movie, tonight. I enjoyed the book of course and there were many more details than the movie; the movie really skimmed through a lot of it, though still enjoyable to watch. There is a dive-in movie screen with pool chairs in front of it, the pool in behind, and the roof slides open to let the sky in. There is also a theater on the opposite end of the ship, meant for shows and performances. We are on the Splendor, and each ship is slightly different with different things or designs.
This morning was a good start. We got breakfast and were all ready to go just a few moments before leaving time at 8, and we ended up having to wait a few minutes anyway. We went on a group tour/excursion about an hour bus north of Mazatlan to a small town in La Chicayota, Sinaloa. The we were off to the beach to visit Las Labradas. Labradas means carvings, and we explored the petroglyph's on the rocks on the beach there. Our tour guide (I think his name was Pablo, I can't remember!) turned out to be an oceanographer. He is a scientist! He was born and raised in Mexico and went to university to study such, and speaks fluent English. We were really lucky to have him. We spent a good hour or so on the beach, exploring the south part and then the north. The basalt rocks came from a volcano hundreds of hundreds of years ago, and carvings are about just as old. Water, wind, and people touching the carving help them disappear so they really focus on preserving them. They even had a live working scientist camp set up on site at Las Labradas. One thing I noticed is that further up shore, the sand is much more coarse (like sea-shell sand) where closer to the water it is very fine sand.
After the beach, we drove back into the town of La Chicayota and the Corono family made us all lunch. It's a really small town, maybe only 200 people live there. The family owns a little (little) store and it's right by the community center. Running water while we were there was down; they had issues with plumbing in the whole town, but they did have a toilet. Anyway, the family cooked us wonderful food- tacos with carne asada, al pastor, shrimp, and marlin, and then there were beans and rice and cucumbers and homemade drinks. Delicious. It was a wonderful experience to interact some with the people. Weston absolutely loved it. It was such a real, non-tousisty, authentic experience.
It was through a tour place but the guy worked with ONCA. See this website and see a picture at this website https://www.instagram.com/p/BgZJVA7lfdl/
When we got home, we had a little nap, cleaned up, had dinner at the buffet (they have almost the same food as the diner does for dinner, you just don't get waited on), and then watched our movie as I mentioned.
pueblosamerica.com says the following, "In La Chicayota (Chilacayotas) there are 56 dwellings. 100.00% of the dwellings have electricity, 97.87% have piped water, 78.72% have toilet or restroom, 55.32% have a radio receiver, 87.23% a television, 76.60% a fridge, 44.68% a washing-machine, 14.89% a car or a van, 2.13% a personal computer, 0.00% a landline telephone, 65.96% mobile phone, and 0.00% Internet access."
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