We decided before Fall classes began we would go on a short cruise.  We hadn’t been to Progresso Mexico in many years, and we found a cheap price on a five day cruise to Cozumel and Progresso.

In Cozumel we did basically the same old thing.  We took a cab into San Miguel and started at Los Cinco Soles.  This time we tried to find a different place to eat.  There was a restaurant I read about called “Los Oatates.” We looked it up on the map and walked there.  When we got there, it was not open for lunch, and, I kind of think, if it had been open we probably would not have eaten there.  So, we went back to Palmeras and had lunch there.  These are a couple of boats pulled upon the beach in San Miguel.

The second stop was Progresso. We stopped there about ten years ago on a similar short cruise but neither of us remembered much of it.  We took an excursion called “The White City and The Golden City of the Yucatan.” We drove through Merida on the bus and saw several attractions, but were not allowed out of the bus.  Then we drove to Ixamal which was the Golden City.  It is a small village deep in the jungle.  We went to an old convent and toured it and then, after a carriage ride, had lunch a local restaurant. 

We took another cruise from Ft. Lauderdale a week ago.  This one went to St. Martin, St. Kitts, San Juan and Grand Turks. We stayed the night before in a Hyatt Regency in Ft. Lauderdale.  We went to dinner on the Marina, and I got this shot coming back from dinner that night.

They had a tower that overlooked the resort and Ft. Lauderdale. In the morning, I took some pictures including this one of the two ships docked in the cruise port.