We're back! ( San Pedro & Cabo San Lucas)

From Mexico that is! Now its time to share all the fun times and pictures, but I'm going to have to break this post up into parts or it would be too long.

We left for L.A.X. at 8:00 AM on Sunday, February 28th and then hopped on a shuttle to the ship from there.
What's the first thing we did when we got on the ship? Eat of course! So after we stuffed our faces we wandered the ship and met up with our 101.5 Eagle friends that scheduled the cruise with. More about them later! It was finally time to leave San Pedro California and make our way to Mexico!

This was the view while the ship was in port...believe me this is better than the other side's view.

John making some smart Alick comment about the other cruise ship

The other cruise ship doing their safety briefing

Pictures while we left the dock and sailed off into the sunset






Sunday night we met our dinner party. They put all the people that came with 101.5 together but there were 30 of us so we had to split up the group to eat. These are the cool, happening cats that were at our table. (*Nikki's cruise tip* when booking your cruise, ask to eat with a group. It's so much fun meeting new people and they'll never be a dull moment at dinner)
Morgan & Greg
They're both in the military and expecting a baby in September. They also taught us how to play (read that as lose) Roulette and we hung out with them quite a bit on sea days.

Mary & Deloris
The sweetest people you will ever meet! Mary always had a hug for us when we saw her and Deloris had the best taste in jewelry!

Shelley & Kory
Two fun lovin gals who had more spunk and energy than the whole table combined!

Jeff & Lorain
Such fun people! Jeff was always making us laugh and Lorain was there to get his story straight when we was telling a little white lie.

Monday was a day at sea. We went to the shopping and gem stone seminars (*Nikki's cruise tip* go to the seminars!!! They usually give out free stuff for attending and you'll learn some good tips)and watched the ice skating show. Want to see all the free loot I got for attending the seminars? all right I'll show you Two bottles of Mexican Vanilla, a handful of charms, a sterling silver chain, mother of pearl earrings, a pearl pendant and earrings that match, two garnets and two sapphires. The only thing is that at the seminars you get coupons, not the item, so then have to go to different stores in port to get the free item. It's fun though, think of it as a scavenger hunt.

The next day we were in Cabo, I think this was our favorite port. The ship was too big to make it all the way into port so they had to water taxi us in, that was interesting.






We went whale watching on a shore excursion and it was just amazing!
John and I off to see whales!

Our ship

Jose, our boat (more like an inner tube) driver

The video I've been trying to load is about 5 minutes long but worth watching. I'll try it in a post by itself later to see if it will cooperate. I'll just post pictures for now.
We were out for about two hours and saw the typical whale watching stuff but then another boat called us saying that they had a baby whale and mama and wanted us to come check it out. For the last 20 minutes of our excursion we watched a baby whale play at the surface. It was like he knew we were there and had to put on a show for us. Mama would come up to the surface every once in the while to get air and it was crazy to see how big she was compared to her 6 week old baby. It was an amazing experience and well worth the money we spent!





After whale watching our driver took us to see the sea lions and the famous Cabo arch. The sea lions stunk like no ones business so I wasn't too disappointing that we didn't stay long.





After our whale watching adventure we went into town to pick up our free treasures. One thing I wasn't prepared for was all the people trying to sell stuff on the pier! "You want to go to Lover's Beach? I'll take you, $10!" "you need a water taxi? $5 a person!" "you want to see sea lions? $5!" soon I just ignored them and just kept walking!
Cabo was such a cute place. We did a lot of wondering and taking in the sites, we even wandered around the mall there.

We went back to the ship a couples hours before we were required to be back so we could eat lunch without a crowd and use a clean bathroom (I was pretty sure that I'd get a disease if I used a local bathroom).

John and I try to collect a christmas tree ornament from every where we travel and this is our Cabo ornament.


I'm still not having any luck loading the video of the baby whale...any suggestions?