Day 5 in Cozumel

Sat Dec 7, 2013
My head is sooooo congested.  I cannot get it cleared up.  Good news is I don't have to dive today and I can still hear and breathe.  So I'll look for sudafed later today.  Greg had the opportunity to dive with another dive operation and go to Punta Sur (the south end of the island).  It is a very advanced dive.  I wouldn't want to do this dive anyway.  Lots of tunnels and depth to 130 feet.  Current is pretty strong too.  I was perfectly content to lay in the hammock and read all morning.  He got back from 2 dives around 1:30 and we ate left overs from La Mission (last night's dinner).  Then I had to have a nap!!!  Walked down to the edge of San Miguel (the only town on Cozumel) and had drinks at a bar where we could see the sun set.  The Christmas season brings children out with decorated palm branches.  Anything from the virgin Mary to tinsel and ribbon and bows.  They ask you "cantada de rama?"  At first we thought they were selling their palm branches.  We checked on the website and found that the children will sing songs and you give them money that they give to a charity.  I was so excited that as soon as they walked up to us at the bar, I called to them "cantada de rama" and they SANG for us!  We don't have a clue what they sang but it was so sweet to hear the little voices.
Dinner was at La Choza a couple of blocks from the bar where we had drinks.  I had a little bit too much margarita so I can't remember what I had...maybe some type of blackened chicken?  It was good!  Greg had vegetable tacos. I remember enough to ask for a "to-go box" and take half of it back to the bnb with us.
On the way back to the BnB, at town square, we stumbled into a play about to start.  It was opened by the mayor of Cozumel? (maybe the president of the district of Quintano Roo?)  We don't know exactly who he was but it was kind of impressive.  The play was actually the ballet "The Nutcracker".  It was fun sitting there watching these young children dance.  And it was in the evening at an OUTSIDE stage.  Pretty impressed by watching the dancing on stage and the stars overhead!
Saturday Dec 7  Here's the link to the pictures from today.