While we went to Acapulco, Mexico for vacation it was definately a learning experience for me. I have seen poverty before and a little side trip we took into the mountains of Acapulco just reminded me of the oppression of poverty and our responsibility to do something about it.

This is a adorable little girl playing with her toys in the windowsill of a run down store.



There is a half mile stretch from the Pacific ocean to the Lagoon and this wooded trail covers the walk to the lagoon.



From an island looking over Acapulco Bay and onto where our hotel was.



These people are street vendors who come running when they see us rich Americans walk by. I really took the picture because the little boy is wearing a Washington Redskins shirt.



From the inside of a late 60's Volkswagon Bug beside a guy almost as big as me.



The famous cliff divers. They charge 35 pesos to see them or roughly $3.50 american.



Just minutes from the tourist resort where the cliff divers jump was this room filled with trash. It just shows the paradox of the wealth and poverty found in Mexico.



The sun decends taken from our hotel window.



Heather and I on a boat in the lagoon.



This is a little snack bar on the lagoon where we pulled up to get drinks and stretch our legs.



Ice cold refreshing yet blazing hot!



I assume people still walk on this pier but I wasn't testing it.



Little girl sleeping in a hammock while her mom sold stuff to the tourists.



This is a little ghetto of sorts, basically just shacks but if you look closely you'll see the thousands of wires- those are powerlines to the shacks.



The sun breaking through the clouds.