After a laid back day & night on Stone Island, Jim dropped Patty and I at the panga dock for a short ride to Mazatlan. We hopped on a Pulmonia to take us to our hotel for a 2 night stay for Carnaval. We were very excited to be going to what is now the 2nd largest 6 day Carnaval in the world. The Pulmonia driver got us as close to the hotel as possible before the security police stopped us about 3 blocks short of our hotel. It turns out that the Governor and the queens of Carnaval where going to be on the Malecon right across the street from our hotel for a special viewing. So, we walked with our luggage the rest of the way to our hotel. But, when we arrived at our little 8 room boutique hotel on the Pacific we were in awe. It was incredible......So here are some pictures of our room and view. Patty did real good finding this place.


Front entrance

Our private deck on the top


Patty pretending to be working



View from inside our front door looking out



View from our deck across the street where the Governor & Queens would be seated for ship to shore fireworks






Courtyard view from other side of our deck


A small portion of our gigantic bathroom


Later night festivities at the hotel front entrance after dinner.We are getting primed up for the fireworks

A few of the fireworks from our deck. You cannot even imagine the crowd of people in the streets below. We ventured out after the fireworks at about midnight to check out the music and festivities. Not a good idea-Totally insane and a little dangerous, so we were literally herded around like cattle weaving in and out of streets trying to get back to our hotel to safety. The music stops at 4:00 am, so even in our cool ass hotel the sound was booming.......








The next morning we walked around the Malecon and a few side streets in the Historic district. I guess that everyone was sleeping, getting ready for the night parade. What a difference.

More fireworks set up along the beach







Our second day of Carnaval we met up with a lot of our fellow campers from Tres Amigos on a rooftop restaurant to watch the parade on the Malecon. None of my night time pictures turned out and it got nuts in the streets again so it was great to be up above the crowd, but finding a ride back to the hotel after the parade was another story! Patty and I both decided that we are glad that we experienced Carnaval but don't know if we would do it again.......Too many people. Guess that we are just getting a little too old to be acting like young pups!




Patty stood on her head to take this picture.....after several shots of tequila