#9 Tuesday 12/16

Loreto

We woke early to catch an 8:30 tender (launch) to the city for our walking tour. The weather was 82F, Humidity 40% with a soft breeze. The tender was interesting, enclosed with plenty of seating.

            We took a long walk down Ave Juan Maria de Salvatierra from the pier to the main drag in the city. Our guide picked us up and started the tour. The town reminded us of Santa Catalina Island, which is very quaint, small and beautifully situated on the coast. Loreto’s old church and the mission were originally built in the 1600s. The old town is made of cobble stone streets. The two-and-a-half-hour tour was nice, but a bit much for a short period of time. We bailed about 20 minutes before our guide ended the tour because we were hungry, thirsty and downright bored! 

            Our walk back to the pier was through a flea market. We bought our Christmas tree ornament, a purse for Jenny, key chain for Jo and a lovely copper sculpture of a tree with pearls on it. On our way back to the ship, we were stopped by many people commenting on our copper/pearl tree!

There were many Pelicans in the bay fighting over fish. I was interesting that if one pelican was sitting, waiting to catch a fish, another would swoop down and sit on the first pelican’s head causing the first pelican to fly away.
We noticed also that the trees were unusually trimmed, tiered from the top in 2 tiers below. Amazing!
We got back to the ship via tender at 11:30. Went to lunch in buffet. We ate a lot, both of us!

The class on Calligraphy was very nice, relaxing and enlightening for Janet.

Bill really enjoyed it and was excited to take the class. Both of us did rather well!

It was 6:30 by time we finished with the dining room and headed for poolside to relax and wait for the show at 8:00. It was very nice they moved the lounge chairs and had white clothed tables with small light on them. It was dark of course and very relaxing. The sky was full of stars, warm and soft breeze. Janet wanted a snack and came back with sauteed asparagus, and an order of fries delivered to our table. The show Gaby Plays was very nice. We saw her yesterday and enjoyed her very much. She had a lovely voice and played the guitar very well.

We had a full day!