Saturday, March 19th

Today we left at about 7:00 to drive to Veracruz. It's typically a 4 hour drive, no big deal for those of us used to road trips. But of course, it didn't turn out that way. Instead, it became a 7 hour drive when we got caught in hours of traffic. And we were only 20 minutes away from the city! Well, at least I got time to knit. I finished a whole scarf before we got there! We finally got to the hotel and checked in at about 2:00, then we went down the street for lunch. After that, we walked from the hotel across the street to the beach. We snorkeled there a while, I found about 14 sand dollars total. The coolest thing we saw was a huge fish, about 3 feet long and silver with green and blue flecks, but I was the only one who saw it! After we got cleaned up we walked about 2 miles to the Zocalo, the main square, but we were all tired by the end and caught a taxi back to the hotel. From there we took the car to Dairy Queen, then back to the hotel where we all headed straight to bed.