The Cruise and Stone Island

After leaving Disneyland we hopped on a Super Shuttle for a quick trip to the cruise ship. Eric and I were certainly ready for some mommy and daddy relaxation! For any of you who have not cruised, let me just tell you, embarkation day can be super crazy. We got to the terminal about noon and prepared ourselves to stand in line. Apparently there is some benefit to having a fussy toddler in a stroller because the man in charge of the line pulled us out and sent us to the disabled/wheelchair line. We did all the necessary work and then zoomed past everyone up to the boat entrance. SWEET! No waiting and straight to the dining room we went.


After our lunch was eaten we headed off to our room and to the kids center to get the boys registered. We got almost done with the form and then I realized I didn't have the medical information. Rats! Back to the room we had to go. Right about this time I started not feeling well. Which was kinda weird because I had been feeling great all day. I had a headache and just needed to lay down. Plus my tummy was not feeling so hot. Well, remember how Lucy got the flu and threw up? Yep, you guessed it! I was the first of all four of the rest of us to come down with the same flu plague that she had. For one night only all in our clan threw up and then felt better. Fortunately it was a short lived bug. We only felt nasty for about 6 hours or so and it wasn't on a day that we were in a port. But THANK YOU LUCY! for deciding to share her sickness with us. It was super swell of you.


I don't have a ton to say about the cruise in general. We stopped at Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. In Cabo I did some shopping for Andrew's teacher. His class is doing a unit on Mexico and she had mentioned a couple of things that she would like to have. I was able to find one thing that she asked for and some other super cool beaded art thing that I thought the kids in Andrew's class (and classes down the road) would enjoy.


Mazatlan brought the most fun of the trip for us. Eric researched one of the shore excursions to a place called Stone Island and found out that it is a super short walk from the cruise terminal to the "ferry" and it was significantly cheaper to go outside of a shore excursion. After losing Lucy's shoe (it was later recovered by one of the crew members when they took the gangway back out) we finally managed to get to the "ferry" terminal. The ferry was really more of a dingy but it only cost us $6 to get to the island so we weren't complaining too much. Once on the island we kinda followed some people who looked like they knew what they were doing. We ended up at Letys, a nice little restuarant/cabana thing that had good and cheap food. It was AMAZING and we had a blast. The kids played in the sun all day and Eric and I managed to cook ourselves.

The rest of the cruise was uneventful and relaxing. Wonderful vacation and break from reality. It was nice to come home though and get back into the day to day existence of things. No seriously, it really was!