This weekend was quite a weekend, lol. It took quite a bit of effort to actually get to Acapulco, but once we got settled, everything was great. We got there at night and after we settled into the hotel, got cleaned up, and changed, we walked to the beach. In Mexico, there's a store called OXXO and it's a convenience store. They're all over the place. See, in Mexico, there's only one company that sells gas, and it's called PeMex and they don't have a convenience store. But if you go a little further down the street, there's an OXXO so it doesn't matter. We were kinda far from the really nice hotels. After we got settled, we went down the street to the Taqueria and had Tacos de whatever it is that starts with a P. Those were the BEST tacos I have EVER had, and I had them from a street vendor in Cuernavaca. To be fair, tho, I did take those para llevar and heated them up later. Caleb, one of the guys in the group, had a taxi driver friend who works at the Copacabana, so we walked down there and right outside the Copacabana was a 24 hr OXXO so people got beer, etc. and I got ice cream. It was amazing! I didn't need a jacket to go to the beach! It was so nice. So we sat on the beach, drank, went into the water. I was too foolish to bring my swimsuit so I only went waist deep. OMG!!! The water was like, at least 72 degrees F. It was SOOO nice. Brian said it was too cold, and I was like, no. Haha, he is used to the hot Gulf water while I'm used to the cold Pacific. The sand on the beach was really rough and coarse. I met a guy from Wisconsin who was visiting his Mexican family. We talked for hours and hours. He's really smart and intuitive. Earlier that night, one of my friends got in trouble with the cops for peeing on the beach. He managed to bribe his way out. Later, as we were leaving, ANOTHER of my friends got in trouble. The guy from Wisconsin talked to the cops and managed to help us out. That's another thing I should have added to my bucket list: bribe the Mexican police. It's crazy, it's crazy. We went back to the hotel until the next morning. We had KFC for lunch around noon, cuz it was down the street from our hotel. In fact, if the KFC had not been located where it was, I might have remembered where our hotel was located. So we walked down to the beach, and me and a few other ppl stopped at the grocery store for water, etc. and by the time we rejoined the group at the beach, they had rented a tent and some chairs for the day. The people staying at the hotel on the beach came down and we all chilled on the beach there. Went swimming. Then! 8 of us took a ride on a banana boat. The boat didn't tow us very fast, so to spice things up, we decided to tip the boat over, lol. We all had life vests and stuff so the guy just drove off without us until he stopped and we just floated there laughing. We had a great view of the bay there and everyone enjoyed falling off the boat, haha. It was really fun. :-) So, yeah, just chilled on the beach. The other group left first, then the boys left, and us girls left around 7 and stopped for dinner. Me and Elaine had this, I don't even know what it was, lol. Some sort of meat, black beans, and rice. Whatever it was, it was really good. We went back to the hotel and cleaned up. We were all going to go watch the cliff jumpers but we didn't get ready in time to make the show, so we went down a block to Hooters. Yes, we went to Hooters. One of the guys hadn't been, so another felt it his duty to take him. We wanted to do something after that but we could not agree on anything, so we ended up going back to the hotel. Today, tho, 9 of us got up quite early for a 6 hr deep sea fishing boat ride. At the beginning, we got all excited: looked at the surrounding islands, looked back at Acapulco, took pictures. Then, we started feeling the heat. We covered ourselves in sunscreen, laid down on the boat, and we all took naps while the boat driver fished, lol. Not for too long, no more than an hour. When we woke up tho, we had just like a layer of sweat all over us, haha. It was so hot. After 4 hours, we talked to the guy and rented gear for snorkeling. So he dropped us off near this little island, and there was a 13 or so year old kid who showed us around. There were these really big blue fish, little tiny fish with shiny blue spots, nice fish that were black, white, and yellow. The kid would go diving and he let us hold a sea urchin and a sea star. I loved holding the sea star. It was black with long legs and small so it like, crawled on our hands. It was so cool! There was this one part when these school of small fish kept swimming right by me, it was just, so cool. So, after snorkeling we got back on the boat and ate lunch. From there we came back to Cuernavaca. All our groups got separated on the ride back, lol. Brian, Elaine, and Me took the last seats to Cuernavaca at Estrella de Oro for $500 pesos at 4:00 pm. We got to the ticket counter at 4:00 pm so they had to radio the bus to wait for us, lol. It was a really nice ride, which is good for the money we paid. We almost had to wait until tomorrow to come back but fortunately we didn't. What a tiring weekend, back to school tomorrow.
