Mexican Riviera!

So I finally had time to write a bit about Mexico. The cruise was fun. It was nice to relax with Josh and have no phone calls and no work interrupting our relaxing! Josh was sick a day or so before we left, but we had 2 sea days where he could rest and get better. Aside from the news about the fires we had fun.

First port was Puerto Vallarta where we took a scenic coastal drive and saw places like Elizabeth Taylor’s former house and Richard Burton’s former house. The coastal areas were beautiful. Small cobble stone streets added to that old Mexico charm. It was really pretty. We also stopped at Our Lady of Guadalupe church and it was beautiful lots of gold leaf and very white inside.

In the afternoon we did the swimming with the dolphins adventures and it was sooo much fun! Definitely the highlight of our trip. We were in a huge salt water pool with the dolphins. They did all sorts of trick… for example the dolphins would give us fish and we’d toss them back to them and feed them. They’d kiss us and we’d hug them. All the while they swam in and out of us upside down at the surface of the water and we’d pet their bellies. They were super cute. They’re much larger than I thought too… like 7 - 8′ long or so. The trainer said the one was 600 lbs! We even got to train baby dolphins. They were 9 and 10 mos old (the adults were 35 or so). The babies were still like 4′ long. The best part was riding the dolphin. We held onto their fins and and they swam upside down across the pool super fast. It was amazing! We were late after the dolphin stuff getting back to the ship, but it didn’t leave without us because it was Princess booked shore excursion. So it was like a bonus, instead of taking the bus back to the port we got to take a small inflatable boat with engine over the to ship. It was a lot of fun

Mazatlan was nice but maybe just the port area wasn’t so nice.. we went into the “Golden Zone” for shopping and stuff and it was a lot of construction. The sales people were very pushy saying “almost free!” CONSTANTLY. It turned us off and we ended up going back to the boat. But the taxi we took back was cool. The driver didn’t speak much English so I brushed up my Spanish and spoke to him in Spanish. We stopped at each monument and he told us a lot about the area. I translated a bit for Josh.

The next stop was Cabo San Lucas. Cabo as by far the best stop! And we were only there for 5 hours We only had time for shore excursion, not much to see the area. We went snorkeling in Chileno Bay. A catamaran took us out there… about an hour ride. The water was SUPER salty. You couldn’t sink if you wanted to. We saw lots of colorful fish and coral. After about 30 minutes of snorkeling or so we got back in the boat and has some snacks and drinks and then back to shore to get back on a tender to go back to the cruise ship. There’s no port at Cabo, so the cruise ship anchors and you take tendor boats out to shore. Both Josh and I want to go back to Cabo again and spend more time there. It was so beautiful.

I get motion sick a lot so I took ginger pills and got sick anyway that night so I took dramamine day and night and so did Josh and that was the only way we didn’t get motion sick. It’s almost like a more pronounced movement on the ship would have been better. The subtle swaying was nauseating especially when we weren’t on the upper decks.

I posted lots of photos in the photo album…

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