Cabo San Lucas

Land and Sea Tour 0420
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Day 3 of our cruise landed us in Cabo San Lucas. The kids started out by watching the ocean from the balcony of our stateroom. Then another unbelievable breakfast of everything you could possibly imagine!!

Cabo is fast becoming a city in itself. They don't have a dock for the Elation so we took water Taxi's from the ship to shore. That was really rather fun in itself. Keith and Mom got to sit up front so that they didn't have to do the steps. . . .. And the city isn't within walking distance (for Keith anyhow) from the pier - so I couldn't really tell just what it is like.

So anyway, again we split up for different tours. We all had morning call times tho'. Ric and April went on the Land and Sea (all day) Tour. They had lots of fun - saw lots of things that we didn't see. Had a tour around the end of the Baja at the "other" side of Cabo, then a jeep ride thru the desert and several villages, had a flat tire, ate lunch at a Palapa somewhere out there - then came back thru on the beach side. It sure sounded like they had fun. Brennan and Elizabeth were off with the other kids almost as soon as they got back - so I don't have any details = but the pictures are great.

The others of us just did the "Sea" part of that tour. We saw sea liions sunning themselves up on rocks, shear cliffs - and the kids saw a little tiny beach - totally cliff locked - with a cave in it - and want to know if we could go there to swim. Now - I'm not sure how they planned to get us there - or what would happen when the tide came in. . ..

We saw where the Americans are building thier new condos - on the Pacific side and where the yacht harbor is. We heard a lot about hte history of the area and really did see some great secenry. I would reccommend this for older people (like us) but the I don't think the kids thought it was too great - I'm sure they would've rather on one like the others did. Chalk it up to experience. . .. . We did a bit of shopping and then back to the Water Taxi for us. Customs consisted in looking at the whistle, little bitty guitar thing, a coffee cup, and a pair of shorts. No trouble there. We were back on board for lunch. . . .

The kids were back into thier suits and since most people were still ashore - they pretty much had the pools to themselves. I laid in a chair and read and watched. Keith got into the pool iwth Mak and they had a blast. Mak even tried out the hot tub and announced that it wasn't hot at all!!

The kids (except Ginger and Elizebeth) elected to return to Camp Carnival for dinner and activities - so our wonderful Stewards put a chair at the end of the table so that Keith and I wouldn't have to sit by ourselves at the other table - and we had another excellent - totally mind-numbing dinner. Then was the Macharana ChaCha - which April and Keith got up and did. It was great!!

I think that everyone else (except us to) went to that night's show - but I couldn't tell you for sure. I was beat, done, and ready to lay down. But we did stop into the Casino and managed to tie up 3 machines within just minutes. They have a neat new way to electronically track your points - so you don't have to haul the coin over to the cashiers window - and that would be embarrassing since I spent most of my time on the 2 cent machines. They also had penny ones but they were all full!! The sweethearts there at the Casino gave us a personal and private lessons on how to play - and we were off an running!!

I picked Kia up from Camp about 8:30 - thinking he must have been as exhausted a I was. The others had direction to return at 10. Kiah wanted to go back up "'cause they were having Harry Potter Night" - so back up the elevator we went. At 10 I picked them all up -- since they were all there. . . . And it was off to bed with our new litter of animals and fresh mints on our pillows. Ms Millie sure knows how to spoil a person~~

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