Dec 07, 2016: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Visited here a few times over the years, so today we took Jeff and Sunny around to all our favourite parts of this wonderful tourist town of about 250,000 inhabitants. A $5.00 taxi to the Malacon (main boardwalk) and we were off on our trek. Many funky statues along our route here including four acrobats performing a great act of twirling down some fifty feet while playing instruments. Checked out the market on the river, visited the Cathedral of Our Lady Guadalupe, then went up the big hill to see if an old friend was around. Barry was in and it was so wonderful to see him again. He toured us around and showed us the changes made to his hotel and restaurant here at the Hotel la Siesta. Great visit. Back into town for lunch before some retail therapy. Cab back to ship in time for some R and R before sail away. Great day capped off with drinks with Captain Rowden and the officers of the Westerdam. Great dinner after along with a great show in the main show lounge. Nightcap with Stryker PianoMan before calling it a night. Now two days at sea, looking forward to this time on board. Loving sea days...