Last Day. :(
Today was our last full day in Mazatlan. The week has flown by. We started the day just like normal heading down to the pool around 9:30 AM. The sun was out and everything was very relaxing. the fog started to roll in a bit, so I decided to go out para-sailing before it really clouded up. The flight was really fun. The takeoff was extremely smooth. I thought I would jerk up into the air, but it was like going up in an elevator. I went up a couple hundred feet in the air. The boat took me down the beach about a a half a mile, and then we turned around and headed back. There were about 5 other people up with different companies at the same time I was, at one point the boat that was pulling me when it turned around crossed the path of another para-sailing boat. Our lines crossed, but I was considerably higher than the other person, and I was well clear of the other persons flight path when he came by. When I came back in for my landing, there is a guy on the beach with a flag. When he raises the flag I pul down on the inland side of the parachute cord. This makes the parachute fly inland. The point is to get quite a bit inland, so the boat can pull me back toward the beach for the landing. This way I won’t land in the water. The landing was pretty smooth just like the take-off. You can see a video of it on the gallery.
After the parasaling adventure we spent the rest of the day reading by the pool. I finally finished the Da Vinci Code. It was a pretty good book. I wasn’t as hooked on it as I have heard other people have been, where they aren’t able to put it down till they finish it. I must have started it a couple weeks ago, and I didn’t get through it till today. It was a good book, and I’m glad I read it. I think its back to some Sandford books before I tackle Angels and Demons.
We are going to get packed up tonight, so we can spend a couple hours by the pool before we have to head to the airport.
Hopefully our last few hours in Mexico will bring us nice weather before sending us back to the frigid north.
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