We arrived Monday morning at around 8am. I went for a run around the ship on their jogging track as we were pulling into port. So this is me after the run when we were anchored in.
Cabo was a pretty place. The rocks made it cool. I guess it has grown a whole lot in the last few years but I still liked it. This was another place that we had to get to on the tender boats. It was a quick ride to shore, we hopped out and were bombarded by people trying to sell us their tours. Well, we didn't plan on doing anything in Cabo except shop shop shop for souvenirs, but they offered us a glass bottom boat tour for just 8 bucks a person. So we took it and off we went to the marina to hop on our boat. We went on two different boats since our group was so large. We went out to sea and saw some different things - the rocks up close, pelicans, what the boat operator called Mexican pirana (they looked like fun size sharks (teeny guys)), seals, and the open water - not that we hadn't been on open water the last 6 days! Anyway, the entire floor of the boat was not glass, just a small section in the middle of the boat that you could look down into the water. It was neat-o. Probably my favorite shore excursion that we did because it was out in the open, the scenery was great, the weather was lovely, and it was just relaxing.The marina. Our boat was like a canoe compared to these boats.
Here it is. Our glass bottom boat. That's me on the right side second from the front. I didn't even feel sick on this boat and I hadn't taken any meclizine in over 24 hours!
The sea lions lounging around like a big pile of lard.
One of the sea lions up close and looking like a bronze statue.
One of the sea lions up close and looking like a bronze statue.
After our little boat tour, we went to the large market and shopped till we dropped. We decided to split up into 3 groups, so each staff took 5 people with them. It was still a headache trying to find everything they wanted and bargain bargain bargain! In the end, everyone was happy and stocked up with new hats, shirts, jewlery, and other small souvenirs. Success! We then headed back to the ship for lunch. After lunch, everyone was deciding what to do next and we asked Hope what she wanted to do. She didn't know so we made suggestions: "Would you like to take a nap?" (because most days she would take an afternoon nap). Her response: "What? On a nice day like this?" We were shocked. So we ask: "Well, do you want to swim?" Her response: "What? In the cold?" I laughed. Some of our guys are so funny, always entertaining for some reason or another. However, she did have a point, the pool water was always cold!
Good-bye Cabo as we pulled away from our anchored spot.
That evening at 11pm, they had the chocoholics buffet. A very random event. They had one of the restaurants set up with a very long table of chocolate desserts and all around the room they had chocolate sculptings. It was the only desserts I actually ate on the cruise (besides sherbet a couple of times, but I don't count those) and it really wasn't worth the calories... And it was different then I thought it was going to be. Just a bunch of cakes and squares and mousses and actually it's kind of a turn off when you see all that chocolate together and all you can smell is chocolate. I only sampled a few things and was done. I was kinda hoping for some actual chocolate pieces - you know, like good international chocolate. Oh well.
The chocoholics buffet... There were so many more chocolate desserts.
The chocolate sculptures at the buffet.
Isn't this the cutest picture ever? I love it! Hope and Susie got these moo moos in Cabo.
Next up - our last day at sea and arrival to LA!
4 comments:
The pictures took longer to load than it took me to read your post (slow network today I guess). The glass bottom boat was a LOT smaller than I expected it to be. But nice seal pictures!
Much as I love chocolate, looking at all that chocolate and thinking of a chocolate buffet made me sick of chocolate. And if you already know it isn't exactly "high quality" chocolate, that just makes it worse.
why didn't you take a pic of the actual glass on the bottom of the boat. I give your post a 9 out of 10 for leaving out that precious piece of info. btw - keep forgetting to call you. I haven't done the show yet. 2nd degree burn on my hand on the night before the show. hopefully this coming tuesday.
Wow, how fun! Sean and I would have died if we didn't take those little magic white pills when we went on a cruise for our honeymoon! Oh, yuck sea sickness!
Yes, I was thinking it was a glass bottom kayak that you were in, not an actual motored boat, but I guess you might have troubles with the manual steering of a kayak with some of your participants and fewer of the staff.
I do love the moomoooooos...they are way cute!
In Astoria last September there were a ton of sea lions on the docks so it reminded me of your blobs of lard there. Did yours have barking contests? Ours did, they sounded just like dogs.
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