To celebrate Ka's impending 30th birthday, we went on a cruise this weekend with Angela & Eric. We had a great time! Kaleb & I usually miss the kids like crazy when we are away & want to come home early. This trip was so great, that we just enjoyed ourselves the entire time. We will definitely take a cruise again! Here is a pic of our ship (I didn't take this!!)
After we got on board on Friday afternoon, we had to go to this drill to practice in case of an emergency, how we would leave the boat. Here we are "practicing" how to put on our life preservers :)
We went up to the deck when the ship was leaving the Long Beach port. It was pretty amazing!
Ang & I went down to the pool deck & had our first drink. It was one of those yummy ones, that you can't taste the alcohol :) The dangerous kind....I think the boys were at the Casino..
We surprised Kaleb at dinner & had a cake delivered...Everyone sang to him :)
This was our animal the first night....I guess this is a cruise thing...the steward of your room makes an animal each night out of towels :) Angela & Eric's steward was way better than ours! They got cool animals!
Day 2 of the cruise (Saturday) had us at port in Ensenada, Mexico. We only got off the boat for about 2 hours, because Ensenada isn't the nicest place to visit!
We went to Papas & Beer, which is a famous bar in Mexico. The waiters can get really crazy. Ang & I were pretty happy to be out of there by the end of it!
We had to have at least one beer, even though it was about 10:30 in the morning...
We went to this gift shop called Habana Cabana, where we got gifts for the boys. They have a whole monkey theme, which fits our boys!
This is us back on the ship, when we were about to leave Mexico & head back onto the seas....This flag was truly amazing--it was SO big!
While Ang & I laid out, the boys played games on board....
They entered a ping-pong contest too! They were both knocked out in the first round :)
That evening was Formal Night, where everyone dressed up. It was a fun night!
Our animal our 2nd night...
Our animal our 2nd night...
Day 3 of the cruise (Sunday) was a "day at sea." I spent the first half of the day sleeping, because I had taken something to make me not get seasick, and instead it knocked me out. The 2nd half of the day, Ang & I laid out and the boys kept themselves busy swimming, playing shuffleboard, and gambling at the Casino.
Our last night, we spent some time on the deck, watching the ocean.
Each night, you sit at the same table for dinner and have the same waitress taking care of you. Ours had a long, Vietnamese name (probably about 15 letters long!), but she told us to call her "knock, knock." You can imagine how much fun Kaleb had with this :) Anyway, Kaleb thought we should "knock" in our picture the last night with her...she thought it was funny!
Our last night, we spent some time on the deck, watching the ocean.
Each night, you sit at the same table for dinner and have the same waitress taking care of you. Ours had a long, Vietnamese name (probably about 15 letters long!), but she told us to call her "knock, knock." You can imagine how much fun Kaleb had with this :) Anyway, Kaleb thought we should "knock" in our picture the last night with her...she thought it was funny!
They take your pictures on the ship each day. Here is the one of us getting on the ship....
Here is the one of us disembarking in Mexico...
And the one of us on Formal Night....
