Our first stop was at the Dona Engracia Tequila Distillery. Our guide told us about the plants used to make tequila. Here he shows us a baby Blue Agave plant.
The mature Blue Agave is the heart of tequila.
Once the Blue Agave gets skinned, it goes through a crushing machine that extracts the juice.
Then it gets distilled into tequila.
We received our first shot of tequila as we entered the tasting room. I don't know why our guide looked so unsure about us. ;-)
Here we tasted about seven different types of tequila - one or sometimes two shots of each. They were all very good - especially the chocolate tequila! When we left, we weren't as think as you drunk we were!
We were then taken into town for a little wandering (e.g. sobering up and shopping) time.
A piece of interesting sidewalk art.
The local church.
Susan loved the colorful flags flown at the town square.
Would it be a real town square without pigeons?
Our last stop was along the seashore walkway with a nice view of the city.
There was also a wide variety of art along the walkway.
Some bronze tourists saying goodbye to us.
That evening we had yet another complimentary dinner at a specialty restaurant on the Nieuw Amsterdam. This time we ate at The Pinnacle - the top of the line place to eat!
My appetizer was a Shrimp Cocktail.
Susan had the Crab Cakes (she started eating it before I could take the picture).
We both had the Filet Mignon for our main courses (no pictures). The finest we've ever eaten!! Then we both had a Grand Marinier Chocolate Volcano Cake for desert. More yum!
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