When Kevin and I were first married, we did not have a bunch of money (like most newlyweds). So we went to Salt Lake City and had a wonderful week of going to the zoo and stayed at Little America. It was wonderful, but since we have been married we have been saving all of our change and extra dollars to go on a vacation. We finally saved up enough money to go on a vacation. When I graduated we decided to take our spring break and go on a great vacation! We went on a cruise!!!!!! We flew out to Long Beach, CA on a Monday Morning.
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| Waiting at the Long Beach Airport |
We took a taxi over to the cruise boat which was exciting, but I found out that I hate taxis. The first reason is because they are SO expensive. It cost $30 just to go around 10 miles. Second, I felt so awkward that someone random could listen to my conversation. Not because we were saying anything private, but because sometimes I say embarrassing things and weird things and just talk about lame things, but I love it. But I couldn't talk for some reason with a weird stranger in the car. So instead of talking, we just took a picture of me in a taxi cab.
We got to the cruise area and were able to check in 4 hours before the boat left. It gave us some time to find our room, eat on the boat, and explore this huge boat. (This is us about to get on the boat).
This boat was HUGE! I cannot imagine going on a very expensive and new boat. This boat is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, boat in the carnival fleet of boats. It was still amazing to me. There were at least 12 floors. Our room was on the 4th floor (that is the lowest floor to the ocean that you can still have a room on.) This means that we walked so many stairs. We defiantly did not gain much weight because we decided to always take the stairs. We were on the 4th floor and breakfast lunch and dinner were on the 10th floor and if you wanted to hang out in a chair or play mini golf, you had to walk up two more floors. We got our exercise in.
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| Leaving Long Beach |
The first night Kevin and I got sea sick. That was lame. So our next pictures and stories will be about Catalina Island. This was probably my favorite stop. It was such a cute place and so fun to see the culture. When I say culture, I mean that almost every single person drove a golf cart for their main car. The apartment complexes that were around, had parking lots made for golf carts. It was hilarious. We saw car seats for babies in the golf carts. It made Kevin and I so happy. Here are most of our pictures of Catalina.
*Random Fact*-I found a flipper while I was climbing onto this rock, then as I was coming back I also found a face mask.
While we were at Catalina we rented a golf cart -we wanted to fit in with the community- and drove around the island. We only had an hour before they started taking more money for us so most of the pictures above are taken while we are driving so that we could get back in time. Below is our golf cart we rented, and our map. I didn't realize I took the picture of the map, but I feel like it looks really creative, so I will show you.
One of the funniest things that Kevin and I found ourselves doing on the cruise was asking, "is this free?". You can survive on the cruise without having to pay anything extra, but you can purchase many things that cost extra on the cruise. While we were on Catalina, we went to a little beach. There were these beautiful white beach chairs. It just looked like paradise. We walked up to a lady and asked, "are these free to sit in?". She said no! They were $30 a chair!!! Ha ha, so we had to sit on the rocks! It just made us laugh, but the rocks were fairly comfortable.
Catalina was so fun! We loved every minute of it. Our next stop was Ensenada, Mexico. Ensenada is close to California so it is somewhat Americanized, But it was still so fun. We went and walked around the market and people kept trying to barter with us, even though we didn't want to buy anything. We also went on a ghetto carriage ride. It was so funny, but it was nice because she told us all about what was going on and what was the cool stuff to do there. She took us to the beach. It was so windy and kinda cold so we did not play in the water, but it looked beautiful. Here are pictures of Ensenada.
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| This is us pretending to drive the carriage |
We loved the cruise, Kevin just keeps wanting us to go on another one. It really was so fun! Here are just a few final pictures of things on the boat.
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| This was probably the one reason I left our room, was so that when I came back an awesome towel animal would be on the bed |
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| Even the dessert was fancy |
Don't forget to smile!!!
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| This was a tree we found in the Ensenada Gardens |
