Taxco

Today, M & I woke up early again - although we did manage to fall back asleep. About 11, we gave up the ghost and went down the hall to see if his folks were about ready to go. They were, so we loaded up the car, and headed back down to the plaza for breakfast. Today, i settled for a banana shake and a plate of fresh fruit. They all had tacos. Then we drove to Taxco - an hour or so away - and the primary economic force there the mining of silver and the artistry in creating jewelry. We hiked to the center of town from where we were able to park the car and saw a few shops before heading back and driving on to Acapulco - a good 3 hour drive down the road. I found the town very similar to small towns in the hills of Italy - Mario said Capri - pretty true I guess. Anyway, we did not have as much time as I would have liked to shop. The pictures of the 3 monks are outside the Temple of the Ex-Convent. The streets are all cobblestone - which hurt to walk on - and have 3 basic colors, black, white and red which were often used to created pictures in the streets like the deer pictured here.

We got to Acapulco around 7pm - Mayan Palace is just off the tollroad - literally right at the foot of it. We got checked in. Martin and Mary are at Grand Mayan which is on the same property. We had hoped we could swap our suite for the hotel room attached to their suite, but no luck. Mario had the maid service come out and change our sheets ... we have also suggested that tomorrow they REALLY need to mop the floor ... we can only hope that the rest of the week will improve from here. It IS nice, however to have a kitchen - even though we probably won't use it for much besides storing drinks and sandwich makings in the refrie.