Hey everyone! Thought I’d give you a little update and a few pics of our vacation so far…
We drove to Long Beach on Saturday night and got in pretty late. When we got there we realized that it was not the best part of town and actually a little afraid. But we nestled up in our room at the Best Western and called it a night.
The next morning we slept in and got ready to leave. The hotel shuttle took us down to the cruise terminals.
When we pulled up, I was in awe of the size of the ships! I’ve seen cruise ships before in Alaska, but these seemed to be ginormous!!
We were able to board our cruise right away and start the fun.
The ship is awesome! So beautiful, clean, and loaded with everything from a rock climbing wall, putt putt golf course, and ice skating rink! Dinners have been out of this world as well as breakfasts and lunches. I felt a little sick the first few days as I went from eating 3 SUPER healthy meals a day to pretty much eating the richest foods you can imagine. Wow.
Sunday night we set sail and had a nice dinner. It’s really fun to dress up and get ready for a nice dinner every night. We were able to change our dinner seating to whats called “my time seating” –normally on a cruise ship you have to eat at a designated time at a large table with other people. With ‘my time dining’ you can eat when ever you want and you get to have a private table. It’s really nice!
Here’s me at dinner the first night:
Boyd caught me off guard there.
We sailed all day Monday and Boyd and I hung out at the pool and got some rays…
That night was the first formal dinner and I got to wear my yellow dress! Super fun to dress up and get ready for this night. I loved seeing everyone else in their fancy dresses.
The next morning we woke up in Cabo San Lucas (crazy to wake up and be in a new location!) Cabo was BEAUTIFUL!! I loved it! We had to ‘tender’ which means the ship can’t dock and you have to take a boat to shore. Here’s a view of our ship from the tender boat, CRAZY how big it is!
We first walked around and checked out the city. A little scary being in Mexico right now, so we were being pretty cautious. We found this restaurant that said you could make free calls to the US with your lunch purchase. So we sat down, had some chips and guac and some chicken tacos (they were SOOOO GOOOOOD)
I forgot my USB cable for my nice camera, so these are all with my point-and-shoot, although this one I shot in manual mode, so I was able to adjust my settings and have it turn out a little fun, plus I didn’t want to take the big camera to shore—too risky, good thing I didn’t because we were hoping in and out of boats—Boyd TOTALLY soaked his shorts, oops! Good thing I was wearing my suit!
We made some phone calls to check in on Eli and Boyd’s office (thats a pic of Boyd on the phone, it was really loud!).
It’s amazing all the things people do here for tips. This mariachi band approached us and asked us what song we’d like to hear. I requested “La Bamba” and before they began to play, informed us that it would be $6. So I said that I didn’t want to hear La Bamba that badly. Lol. I could buy 6 songs on iTunes for that! 
But we did buy Eli a little turtle whistle from this sweet little boy on the street (so sad).
Next we decided to take a water taxi to ‘lovers beach’. It was a little scary getting in this rickety boat with 2 Mexicans that barely spoke any English, but we roped another couple from Arizona to go with us. I’m really glad we went because we were able to see a lot more of Cabo, including this famous arch:
I was so beautiful! In the summer the tide is low enough to walk under the arch on the beach. That would have been really neat as well.
We also saw (and smelled) some Sea Lions. Pee-uuu they stunk!!
Here’s a shot of Lovers Beach as we pulled up
Here I am with my cover up that I made!
The pacific side of Lovers Beach
The rock formations made it really spectacular. The sand was so fine and clean, amazing.
Johnny Depp got a bucked of gold dust dumped on him. Haha. These guys act like statues and then move and scare you. They’ve got to be SOOO stinkin’ hot!!
Cabo was incredible. We got back on the boat in plenty of time (we were really afraid of losing track of time and missing the boat—literally, but we played it safe).
The next day we were in Mazatlan. We got off the boat and spent about 30 minutes there. We weren’t too thrilled about it, and frankly a little freaked by all the creep’-o’s. So we decided to head back to the boat and take it easy. Here’s the marketplace by the cruise terminal. It was neat and we got Eli some little toys.
Boyd kickin’ it with Mr. Senor Frog
Mazatlan from the ship:
Last night was a blast! We had an awesome dinner (as usual) and then went to see a Big Band Set by the ship’s horn orchestra. There was all these ‘old’ people dancing and really rockin’ the house! Boyd and I agreed that we would NOT get up and dance because the ‘old people’ would show us up! There was even this one couple that must have been in their 80’s (ok maaaaybe late 70’s) and they did everything short of him lifting her up and swingin her over his shoulder.
It was awesome! Then we went to this Love & Marriage Game Show and it was hilarious! Then they had dancing, music and a buffet on the pool deck under the stars. I told Boyd that this clip of everyone dancing reminds me of a movie where everyone is doing the same dance. Maybe we’ll join in the fun tonight. Fun fun. What a blast!
Today we woke up in Puerto Vallarta. I went here 4 years ago with Jayme and loved it, so I was excited. We took a taxi to the Mallecon (boardwalk) and walked around and to the ‘Municipal Mercado’ (city market) and got some fun souvenirs!! I really love the old charm of Puerto Vallarta.
Chris, look what we bought you! Haha, jk, I think Steph would KILL me.
I wore my suit so we could hang out on the beach.
Sand sculptures on the Mallecon, I know Todd & Laci are seein’ similar ones in Boracay!
The famous arches on the Mallecon.
We saw this Pirate ship from the window when we were eating lunch on the ship. We want to do it with Eli next time we go, so fun!!
Okay that’s my update for now. We just left the port in PV, and we’re headed home! We have 2 more days of sailing and then we’ll be in LA Sunday morn, then flying back to AZ that night. Can’t wait to see my little baby I miss him soooooooooo much!!!!!
Love to you all!
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