I will be putting my shop on vacation mode starting tomorrow as I am preparing for a long weekend cruise to Mexico!
We will be celebrating my sister's 25th birthday and are taking a Carnival cruise to Ensenada, Mexico. We've all been looking forward to this for quite a while now! Tomorrow I'm taking the day to pack and get everything organized and put together, and then we leave early Friday morning for LA. (Let me add a plug here for Lewis Travel in Fresno, especially Dana Huckestein, who coordinated everything for us!)
We get to board the ship at 1 pm, so we're going to try to be there right about then so we can make the most of the cruise (ie, hit the bars while we're waiting for our room to get ready!)
Actually, at this time a year ago, I was on a cruise with my best friends Billy, Ericka, Kristin and Greg in Hawaii. We took a seven-day cruise around the islands on Norwegian Cruise Line. We had an awesome time, the islands and ports were beautiful, and we had a great time. I wouldn't sail NCL again, though. The food was not good (to say the least) and some of the staff wasn't the greatest. We did meet some really excellent crewmembers, though, waiter Jay Woodward being one of the best!
This cruise to Mexico will mark my 4th cruise that I've taken, and the third I've been on with JD (my significant other). My first cruise was through the Caribbean, and the second was March 2007 when my friends Billy and Ericka got married on the ship, and then we sailed to the Mexican Riviera. Last summer we went to Hawaii.
Our group of friends is addicted to cruising! I joked that we're getting spoiled, and used to taking a cruise every year. But the weekend cruises, which sail on Fridays and get back on Mondays, are a great compromise AND they're affordable.
I'm not sure yet what we'll be doing there, but we always have fun together and I'm sure we'll figure out something. One tour takes you through some wineries and gives you a bottle of wine (!) and another we considered involved ATV rides on the beach.
Good times. So I'll be back next week to update you on everything, and get back to work on new art pieces. Be well, my friends.
Yours,
Jenny Swartzbaugh
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I'm sad that we're not going with you guys... but I've been on a Mexican cruise twice and can't justify the expense right now :( Have fun though! Take pictures! (Like I need to remind you!)
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