The first night we got there, we went to the Santa Monica Pier. We ate at this crepe place that was very good and had basically naked woman on the walls. It is LA.
Nick was a good sport with me making fun of him for the whole week. What can I say, Carly and I are a deadly combination.
We went to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, and it was very fun and not too crowded, surprisingly. The best ride of the park was closed, so that was a bummer.
Daniel and Nick posed as Superman as we waited in line for the ride. They only wished they had his outfit and his body (as seen behind them).
There was a girl in line who had the shortest shorts on we'd ever seen. Her butt cheeks were showing. We were laughing pretty hard, especially since she posed perfectly right before we took this picture.
Carly and I doing the pose of the trip with a random girl who said she was popular. Really, we just wanted to feel like were diverse.
Carly and I doing yet another pose on a big bear.
The scariest face I've ever seen Nick make. No serious, it freaks me out a a little bit. Behind him was Goliath, a good ride.
Daniel and Carly on the Colussus. Nick was freaking out that I was going to drop the camera, but of course I didn't. As you can tell, I'm a very talented photographer.
I still get a little excited/afraid of big animals. Particularly Wylie and his yellow eyes made a little nervous. But I had to get a picture with him, its what you do at theme parks, right? I'm afraid this time I didn't see Wonder Woman, so I was desperate. 
On Monday afternoon, after driving along the coast, we boarded our ship, and she is. The beautiful Carnival Paradise. The whole time I wanted to sing the theme music to Titanic, but I could only think of the Celine Deon song. (Amander and Sam, we need to watch Titanic, speaking of which)
Our first stop on Tuesday morning was Catalina Island. It was so pretty and such a nice day.
Nick and Daniel were excited to go golfing.
Carly and I took a hike to the highest spot on the island. You can see our ship behind us in the water. I'm not sure if it was from being on the boat, but I got a little nauseous hiking . . .
But I made it.
Carly and I were a little confused about our hike. We got a little lost on the way there, and then we got a little worried while we were on our hike, because we weren't quite sure how to get back. We found a "short-cut" that was a steep part, that took us to a path going back down the hill. Carly fell a few times and I decided to just start going down on my butt. When we got down, we realized that it just cut through our original hike, so we hiked back up and around. It was pretty funny. 
Tuesday night was formal night on the cruise. I was very disappointed that Nick didn't bring his tuxedo and cumberbun from high school choir. But what can you do.
On Wednesday, we landed in Ensenada. Carly and I had done some research and found a private beach a little bit away, Estero Beach. After a few Mexicans tried to screw with us, we found our way there. It was beautiful and no one was there. It was a little windy, but Carly and I ended up getting fried.
Nick and Daniel weren't too keen on laying out, so they played frisbee for a few minutes . . .
Then decided to dig a big hole.
A view of our private little beach. And Nick and Daniel still digging a hole
Enough said.
Their goal of finding oversized sombreros was accomplished. They wore them all over the ship that day and yes, people stared. All they needed to complete the tourist stereotype was a large Hawaiin shirt.
Carly and I were undefeated in our Spades tournaments. As you can tell, Carly was very focused. We really didn't rub it in as much as we should have, because let me know tell you, we killed them. They seem happy in this picture, but they were really crying inside.
And that's our trip. It was definitely a lot of fun and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Overall, I give cruises two thumbs up.
1 comment:
Your blog is so YOU. I love it. It makes me miss you. I must see more pictures of this booze cruise soon.
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