Our cruise was supposed to visit the Mexican Riviera. Our scheduled ports of call were, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas. On our 2nd day of the cruise the Swine Flu outbreak hit. As a result our scheduled ports of call were canceled. We had to stop over in Cabo for a medical emergency. So we were teased with the beautiful scenery and other vacationers enjoying themselves. Carnival was unable to secure another warm weather port for the remainder of cruise. The decision was made to head for San Francisco. This upset a vast number of the passengers. Many were from Northern California and had no desire to spend their vacation so close to home. They were allowed to disemark the ship early at a stop in Long Beach before we continued north. This caused us to be late getting into San Francisco. To make matters worse it was pouring down rain for the entire day. No one was prepared for this kind of weather and lacked the proper clothing. Being from Oregon my group made the best of it and visited an aquarium, fisherman's warf and took a trolley ride to the other side of the city and back. The ship was beautiful but some of the decorations felt like they were a bit much. There was not much access to get to the outside decks. The staff as always was wonderful. Carnival at first did not offer any compensation for the cancelation of our ports. But a few weeks after we were home we received a voucher for 50% of our next cruise. So there was a silver lining to this storm cloud of a cruise.