Sailing....takes me away.....

I am finally returned from my four-night Mexican cruise with my sister-in-law, Karyl. We sailed aboard Carnival's Funship Elation (see below) out of San Diego with one port of call in Cabo San Lucas. This was our opportunity to escape from children, laundry, dishes, etc...you get the drift. We had a good time and are already talking about maybe trying to get more people to go with us next year.

Here is a picture of the Lido deck (pool deck) of our ship. We didn't spend much time here, except for when we walked past the pool to get to the restaurant where we normally ate lunch.

The Elation atrium...from not a very high floor. I could have gone up higher to take this picture.

We enjoyed sitting at the back of the ship eating lunch and watching the wake generated by the ship. The water was so blue and beautiful.

These were our dinner companions the first night onboard. We had sat for close to 40 minutes with no water, no waiter, and no one at our table but us. We were beginning to feel invisible. Then suddenly, they seated these four, young Mexican gentleman at our table. They were four from a party of six who had come from Tijuana for a bachelor party (apparently the bride-to-be would not allow them to party in Vegas). We laughed at the irony of them having come from Mexico to go on a Mexican cruise. LOL!

They were very polite and gentlemanly and engaged us in conversation. We were very surprised. The one on the far left is involved with bio-fuels engineering, the one with his hands up works in "meat", the one with the blue striped shirt is an architect, and the far right is also involved with bio-fuels engineering. They told us they were all college roommates and we discussed the differences in the college experiences in the US and Mexico and also talked Packers football! Go Pack!

Unfortunately, we had already requested to switch to the different dinner seating time and this actually worked out for them as the maitre'd was going to move the remaining two from their party (who somehow had ended up in the other dining room) and seat them all together for the remainder of the cruise. We hope they had a good time...we sure did.

This is one of the pictures I took in Cabo San Lucas. This was taken from our ship as we sat anchored outside the port.

One of several "towel creations" we found in our room in the evenings. They were adorable.

This is a picture collage that Karyl created from some of the photos she took. You will note some duplicate scenes, but it was so neat, I added it to my blog, too.