Day 5: Mazatlan
Monday, March 10, 2025

Cruise Compass
MDR Menu: A Taste of the Caribbean
Today’s Weather: about 72, winds 10mph from the NE
Internet Speed: 8.88 Mbps down, 3.37 Mpbs up, connected via Mexico City
Location at Start of Day: About 8:00A

Thanks to the magic of NyQuil tabs I passed the night in oblivion.  Work up dopey and a bit congested, but the sore throat is mostly gone so I’ll take that tradeoff!  We were already docked when we woke up a 8:00A.  The Mazatlan cityscape isn’t much to look at – and unless we breakdown and decide to buy some cold medication we’re staying on the ship today,

Very quick breakfast at WJ, where I tried the cinnamon sugar donuts.  I think I have a new “go to” for breakfast!  We cooled our heels at Schooner before doing the 10:00A general trivia.  Our 18/20 was actually good to tie for first, but as we always sit in the aisles next to Schooner instead of inside the actual seating area the staffer never saw our raised hands and, of course, I’m not going to push for a “valuable prize”, so our talent were recognized only by the women sitting next to us.  We stuck around for tri-bonds and then came back upstairs at 11:30A so I could catch up with this diary and we figured we’d balcony sit for while before lunch.  It was a bit too toasty on the balcony, however, so we relaxed in the room for about 45 minutes before grabbing WJ lunch.

Today’s lunch was Honey Stung Chicken + Pork Belly w/BBQ sauce + mashed potatoes + salad for me, and sausage + salad for E.  All was fine.  We tested out their carrot cake and blueberry tart for dessert.  The carrot cake is a poor excuse for carrot cake, but was actually a decent cake.  The blueberry thing was a very gelatinous filling, but E said it tasted more like blueberries than last night’s dessert tasted like cherries.  We each grabbed 2 cookies for the cabin and then went back to nap.  I got in about a 45 minute snooze and felt a bit more refreshed upon awakening.  We spent the next hour out on the balcony reading.

Pre-dinner we enjoyed a couple of drinks at Schooner while doing riddles, Cher music (not out 0 out of 15, but not even a single GUESS), and then general trivia before dinner at Jamie’s Italian, where we ate a TON of food.  We shared garlic buns, fried calamari, and their antipasti platter, then E had their carbonora (which she liked but said was more like an alfredo) while I had the penna arrabiata – which was pretty good.  We were too stuffed to even bother with dessert.

From dinner we headed off to the ice show, which started off with a cool drone show before going into the high energy skating.  Fun stuff!  Then we trekked over to the theater for….MO5IAC.  Yes, the same group we saw on the Oasis in 2014…doing the same show we saw in 2014.  Nevertheless, still a crowd pleaser and time passed quickly.  A quick stop at Café Prom for some cookies and a chocolate bar and then back to the cabin to eat, read, and hit the pillows.