Our first full day in Mexico City. We got up to be down
to breakfast in the dining room for 06:30, to be at the bus by 08:00. Anne and
I had breakfast with Arsenio and Gemma, another spread of a variety of foods,
both familiar and unfamiliar. I had fried cactus leaf for the first and only
time in my life. I also had a “tamale” that was unexpectedly filled with a sort
of white cheese; it was not really to my liking either, and there was never a
“real” tamale on the buffet. In fact, there was little if any of what we
Americans consider “Mexican” food (of course, really “Tex-Mex”). But there were plenty of good things to eat, including abundant desserts. We did not go
hungry. Some veterans of cruises likened it almost to the experience there.
