Cruisin!!!

First of all, I am still planning on making out blog private, things have just been crazy. I spent an hour one day typing all the email addresses in etc. and when I went to process it, there was an error which deleted everything I had just done. I haven't been able to make myself try again. If you haven't given me your email address yet, please do.

Kyle and I had the incredible experience of going on a cruise at the beginning of May. If it weren't for our parents and siblings helping out with the kids, we never could have made it work.

We went to the Mexican Riviera. The stops were Cabo and Puerto Vallarta. We were supposed to go to Mazatlan but they canceled it for safety reasons so we had two days in Cabo. I can't even begin to put all the pictures of what we did but here are just a few (out of over 800!!!)

This is us at the beach in Cabo getting ready to Kayak across the ocean over to Lover's Beach. This was SOOO much fun! We also rented snorkel gear. This ended up being one of our favorite activities. Kyle had never been in the ocean before so this was all new to him. There were many new adventures for both of us.


Para-sailing in Cabo...
When it was time to bring us back into the boat, they would slow down so your feet would touch the water. We kicked as hard as we could to splash. I think we went the lowest into the water out of our group.

It is a really long story so I won't go into it (much) but right now there isn't water under Cabo's famous arch. To get to where you could walk under it though was a bit intense. We had to run along side of a cliff which the water went up to, on the pacific ocean side which is very dangerous water. We had to time it just right and run for all we were worth. Kyle proved to me that he could set a state record in short distance sand running... He then proceeded to 'encourage' me from the safe end of our run to go faster. I survived to take this picture:

We watched a sea lion sun bathing by the arch:


FREE ALL YOU CAN EAT ICE CREAM!!! All I can say is Strawberry...YUM!


In Puerto Vallarta we went on a Canopy tour, aka a series of zip lines. There were about 18 different lines going back and forth over a gorge. The longest one was a quarter of a mile. The highest was 750 feet over the river below. It was so awesome. I would definitely recommend this to anyone if you ever get the chance.

On the bus ride back down the mountain from the canopy tour, the bus driver, apparently with the back half of the buses permission, stopped at a tequila factory. I was bothered that we had been kidnapped and had to waste our time there. Kyle convinced me to walk around a little to cool off. : ) There were a bunch of cages with roosters in them. They were quite beautiful and not your everyday farm animal. I told him maybe they were fighting roosters. He used his spanish (which he enjoyed practicing this trip) to ask some teenage girls who live/work there??? what the roosters were for. Sure enough, they were cock fighting rooster each worth $300 american money. There were quite a few. Stacy and Amy, two of our friends who went, asked the bus driver about some fruit trees. He showed us a lemon tree which was full of green fruit. He decided to prove to us that it was lemon and not lime and found one rip lemon for us to try. It was quite strong!

When we finally got off the bus, we got off downtown to do some souvenir shopping. The little flea market that we walked through was fun. It was really humid and hot there but we enjoyed looking around and exploring.

After walking out of the market and along the boardwalk for about 3 hours, we all finally decided we weren't going to be able to walk all the way back to the dock to our ship so we took a public bus. It was CRAZY! This man was Kyle's buddy on the bus making sure we knew where to get off:

There were two formal dinners on the ship. This is the second one. The food was incredible and I will, for the rest of my life, be craving the 'Choclate Melting Cake' that we had every night. Anyone have a great recipe???

This is at the show the last night waiting to watch our friend Jarom as Garth Brooks in the 'Carnival Legends' show. We were at Karaoke when they started the tryouts for this show. They had some different singing 'legends' that the guest could try out to be int he show. Jarom, with some gentle nudging from his friends decided to go for it. Those tryouts ended up being probably the most entertaining events on the ship. I don't know when I last laughed that hard and honestly, I don't think Kyle has EVER laughed that hard. Not even at his own jokes! ; ) (love you babe!)
It was such a great week to be able to spend time together and see so many beautiful things. A cruise is definitely on our do again someday list. Sorry for so many pictures but it was impossible to pick. I am actually quite proud of my control over how many I put!