Vacation: Cabo San Lucas

Our Mexican Rivera cruise continued with two full days in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico-May 17-18th. The cruise ship dropped anchor in the ocean and we took little tender boats to the dock. Upon arrival we were hounded by tons of little mexicans trying to get us to take their water taxis to see the sights. The best sign was written on cardboard, "welcome, LDS!" Too funny-just shows that people will do anything to get some business down in Mexico (either that or, he got the memo that 50% of our ship were mormons).

Here we are on the tender boat with the cruise ship behind us

We decided on a little boat tour of the where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Ocean with a stop for snorkeling at Pelican Bay. We saw Lover's Beach and tons of seals along the way.

Nick is enjoying his boat tour with Lover's Beach behind him

Lots to smile about-the water was perfect

Taking a break from snorkeling

The water taxi dropped us off on the other side of the bay where we at lunch at a restaurant on the beach called "The Office" and of course had the best chips and guacamole.

We decided to walk back to the dock so see all the shops, enormous condos, and ridiculous boats. I couldn't believe they rolled out the red carpet for us! :)

We headed back to the ship after day one in Cabo to shower and have dinner, but we couldn't even make it back to our rooms with out TJ having the urge to get an airbrushed tattoo! Yep, he got a dragon to represent his high school mascot. Haha--who does that?? Anyways, we all loved giving him a hard time about it--especially the last minute addition of the red outline, which was his idea!

Here is the 'tattoo' in all its glory! (Nick's face in the background tells you how he feels about it)!

Day Two of Cabo was kicked off with some shopping at the street vendors. Nick and TJ got t-shirts and of course we got our mandatory magnet.

Due to all the food that we had been consuming thus far, we decided we would walk to the beach instead of taking a taxi. Along the way we saw some great sights! Nick was in awe over the mexican methods of construction. He was wanting to count all the code violations, but we would have been there for the rest of the week if we let him do that.

And how could we pass up great signs like this!!???

Once on the beach I got suckered into getting a henna tattoo from this persistent mexican. I got it on the top of my foot, and what was supposed to last for two weeks-finally scrubbed off after a month! We enjoyed the sunshine, but the harassment to look at shells, little dresses, necklaces, or "senorita-me, braid your hair" didn't let me fully relax. I guess that is one of the downsides of Mexico--they want to sell you everything!

Cabo was great! So much to see and do. Definitely need to head back there again. We finish up Cabo by heading back to the cruise ship to shower up and get ready for the night.

Up next: Puerto Vallarta!

Vacation: Part 1- Sea Days

Before Nick headed off to Texas for the summer we decided we needed took go on vacation. So we called up two of our favorite people, Michelle and TJ, and said, "Pack your bags, the four of us our going on a trip!" We decided on a cruise, and off the Mexican Riveria it was for 7 great days-May 15-May 22. We flew into California the night before and stayed at Michelle's parents house, and then headed down to Long Beach the next morning. Once of the ship the eating games begun! No joke, I think my body is still in shock from all the sweets-but hey, it was vacation, right?!?! Here we are after we got on the ship. Yes, it was cold in California pretty much the entire time.

Sunday and Monday were sea days where we slept in, laid out, ate, and played Bingo! As usual, Nick (who wins everything) won bingo! As you can see here, he was pretty excited :)

Nick and TJ were sure to do some late night karaoke. After a poor rendition of "Save A Horse Rid a Cowboy," TJ declared that never should have try to do a country rap song! Haha-I about died laughing. The highlight each night of karaoke was the host, who was very eclectic to put it nicely, and was sure to comment that everyone's performance was W-O-W!! Here at the boys in action.

At the welcome aboard show the first night they had the men in the audience stand up and be loud if they love their wife. 5 guys from an audience of at least 1,000 got selected to have a "I love my wife competition." Of course Nick was one of those guys, and then he had to give his best Tarzan yell, and whoever did the best one according to audience applause wins. And as usual (going back to Nick winning everything) he WON! He got to go on stage, do this whole dialogue about how he loves me with the cruise director, and at the end he had to show his love by jumping up and down three times with flair and end it with his best booty shake! It was laugh out loud one of the most stomach aching laughs I've had in a long time. The crowd goes crazy, and of course he is told that he has to do this several times throughout the week, and if he does then he will win some prizes. He was given a piece of paper that had all the times he had to be on the ship to 'perform' each time trying to top his last booty dance on stage! At the end of the week and 5 performances later he was showered with everything Carnival makes that has their logo on it! Not to mention the entire cruise ship (3,500 people) knew who he was and how much he loooooves me! I'll have to post some video when I get a chance. The best part was that they record everything on the ship. So 24/7 there is a channel on the televisions in everyone's room that plays a loop of the activities on board. Since Nick was professing his love for me and shaking his butt at everyone, he was on that TV a lot!

And this was only Day 1 and Day 2....more to come