Cruise Pictures (Part 2)

Day 3:


The huge Mexico flag at the port in Ensenada. Ryan finally made it out of the United States!

During our stay in Ensenada, we spent most of the day at an awesome resort. We swam in the pool, enjoyed the perfect weather and views of the ocean, and had a delicious buffet lunch. It was such a nice, relaxing day!


Estero Beach Resort


The museum at the resort.


View of the ocean.



Enjoying our buffet lunch. The food was so good and we had a great view of the ocean.


We had such a great time!


Another towel animal that we haven't been able to identify.


Leaving Ensenada.

Day 4:

We have very few pictures from our last day because most of it was spent sleeping. Our last day was our only "at sea" day and we had plans to hang out by the pool, but it was really crowded so we decided to go back to our room and then try again later. Well, we both fell asleep and woke up at 5:30. Dinner is at 6, so we just barely had enough time to get ready and get to dinner. Here are the few pictures we do have from that day:


The final towel animal. I thought it was a gorilla, but Ryan thought it was a frog...any other ideas?


Waiting for the final show


Bingo...our favorite game in the world! We weren't going to play this time because we had lost the night before with only one space left, but we were just sitting there waiting for he show to start so we went ahead and joined in the fun. We were not doing very well at all and the people at the table next to us only needed 2 spaces to win so we knew we were going to lose. Somehow they suddenly started calling all the numbers we needed and we actually ended up winning. The prize was a cruise for 2 and we were so excited (we still are)! We've never won anything before, so this makes up for all those other raffles/games where we never won anything! We haven't booked our cruise yet, but we're planning on taking another trip to Mexico next May. It was the perfect ending to an awesome trip!

Cruise Pictures

As promised, here are pictures of our awesome cruise to Catalina and Ensenada. We have a ton of pictures, so here are the first two days.

Day 1:


Our first of MANY meals


Our room with a view of the port in Long Beach


Our room


Leaving Long Beach


Every night while we were at dinner, the housekeeping staff would come in and clean the room and leave us a towel animal. This was the first night and we're 99% sure it's a walrus. The rest of them are not as easy to figure out.

Day 2:


On our way to Catalina. The cruise ship isn't able to dock at Catalina, so they drop the anchor a little ways out and tender boats pull up to the cruise ship to take people to and from Catalina.




My restaurant :)

We took a bus tour of Avalon while we were at Catalina. It was a lot of fun and we were able to see and learn way more than we could have on our own. We also got to go to the museum on Avalon. Here are some pictures from our tour and the museum:




Fire Station


Golf course. You can't see it, but the first hole is on a hill on the other side of the street, so you tee off and hope your ball makes it to the other side.


The lone grocery store in Avalon


At one point this was a bird aviary, but was later turned into a daycare center (for children, not birds).


Just for Lauren :)


For Karen. Apparently the Chicago Cubs used to have their spring training at Avalon when Wrigley owned Catalina.




For Dad B. and Papa


The wait staff was very entertaining at dinner. This time they were serenading everyone with "That's Amore".


Night 2 towel animal. Any guesses? I think it's a dog, but Dad W. said moose and I can kind of see that, too. Carter said bunny.

Stay tuned for pictures of the rest of the trip!

Paradise!

Originally uploaded by lights.

We went on a 4-day cruise to Mexico the end of September on the Carnival Paradise. We had such a great time and can't wait to go on another cruise! A special thank you to my parents and the Baker family for watching our boys. More pictures coming soon!