Showing posts with label Spring 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring 2010. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

More from our day in Ensenada

We took our time heading back to the ship, and had fun taking lots of random photos along the way--


Ensenada--more day trip pics


After we got dropped off by the tour bus in the "very safe" part of town, ie: one block up from the cruise ship dock, we decided to eat Mexican food at a "real" mexican food restaurant. Kelsey wanted to eat from an "authentic" taco cart on the street, but I said "no way." I really didn't want our "fun day at sea" to be, well let's just say...not so fun... so we settled for the sit down restaurant, that really wasn't that good, along with soda to drink (no tap water allowed either). After lunch we headed across the street to "SWEETBERRY" and the 3 of us split a berry yummy frozen yogurt topped with "Fruity Pebbles".
Then we took a walk around the block and picked up a couple more souvenirs.




Wednesday, Ensenada Mexico





We were welcomed to Mexico by a GI-NORMOUS Mexican flag and so we left the ship by way of the "gangway" but this time onto the pier/port since we had booked a "shore excursion"  to "La Bufadora--the Blow-hole"  (said with an accent of course!) One of only 3 natural blowholes in the world...and a shopping trip to an authentic open-air flea market. We took a tour type bus with a tour guide named "Sunshine" to La Bufadora, about 45 mins outside of Ensenada, where we checked out the spray from the blowhole, had a few authentic photo ops, and then had 45 mins to bargain shop before boarding the bus.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Catalina Island


On Tuesday morning we crossed the "Gangway" and boarded a "tender boat" to head over to Catalina Island.   It was really cool because we watched some Parasailers just off the ship as we headed over to check out the Pier, Marina and a few souvenir Shops.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Spring Break Cruise-April 2010


Over Spring Break, Kelsey, Catherine (her Bestie) and I went on a Carnival Funship Cruise for Kelsey's early graduation present! Our ship was aptly named "PARADISE"! We left from the Queen Mary port at Long Beach Calif, with a stop off at Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico and a "fun day at sea" (which really means get a sunburn while you still can, cuz your heading home to gray skies tomorrow!)
Here are just a few highlights, since we took a few hundred pics!