Ensenada, Mexico Cruise

Thanksgiving weekend my mom took Nick, Allie, and I on a cruise. My brother also came. It was a short cruise that only stopped in Mexico, but since it was Allie's first we thought it had better be a short one so we could see how she would do. Also, I was still in school and my mom was busy with work, so a little weekend cruise was perfect. We had a blast! Allie was so good and loved being on the "big ship"! The first couple of days she kept saying she wanted to go on a big ship, so we had to keep reminding her that we were on a big ship and show her the water out the windows so she would believe us. Those cruise ships are so big sometimes it doesn't feel like you are even on one! We went with Carnival cruise line this time and decided we liked our Royal Carribean cruise line cruise to Mexico better. But at least we know which one we like better now. We went to see "La Bufadora", the blowhole, again (we saw it last cruise too), but along with La Bufadora there is the open air market where you can haggle with prices. My mom and I both got Coach purses that look completely real. They have the leather patch on the inside, it says Coach on everything, and there are "C"s on the purses instead of Gs or Os. The guy told us we were getting genuine Coach bags and not Ooach or Goach bags. That made us laugh. Whether or not they are real, they look real and we got them for like $65 instead of the couple hundred we would have paid in the states. Mom and I had fun seeing how low we could get them to go. The guy started off at $120 so I thought we did pretty good. Nick and I really enjoyed just getting away. Nick said he was going to be sad to go home and find the bed unmade, no towel animal sitting on our bed, and no chocolate on our pillow. Cruise life is definitely the way to go. Thanks Mom! We had such a good time! My mom has a lot of the pictures so I'll have to post more later of Allie mini golfing on board the ship and a few other things.

Lifeboat drill!

She thought she

was pretty special

drinking out of

these glasses.

Dinnertime!

We took a charterbus

to La Bufadora. Allie

thought it was really

fun.

She was very impressed

by the water shooting

into the air. She is

so dang cute!

Nick packed her

all around and squeezed

in between people

to get her closer to

the blowhole. She

loves her Daddy.

She wasn't quite

sure what to do

with this seal.

She sat like this

for a good 5 min.

before going closer.

One night there

was a bunny on

our bed. She liked

that one so much

she read it a Pooh

bear story.

Like a big girl she

slept on a pull

out bunk bed. We

lined it with pillows

and if she rolled off

it would have been on

our bed so we weren't

too concerned.

She loved jumping out of the windowsill. This is what kept her entertained while we were in our room.