The Alston's: Our Cruise

Johnny and I went on our first cruise! It was a 5 day cruise on Carnival to Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada. SOOOOO FUN! We will definately go on another... only next time it will be 7 days! 5 just wasn't enough!

We left out of San Diego which is where we had our honeymoon in 2001! Here I am standing in front of where we stayed way back when... the Marriott.

Here is the bridge you can ride to Coronado Island where the famous Hotel de Coronado is.

We toured an aircraft carrier, the USS Midway while we were waiting to board our ship. Johnny had fun playing around... here he is in the brig!

Remember that famous black and white picture of the sailor kissing the nurse when WWII ended. Well, they have a giant statue of it in the ark next to the battleship.

We were standing out on top of the Midway and there were 4 real Aircraft carriers at ort at the naval base on Coronado Island. They are in the distance behind us.

Overlooking the planes from all the wars this retired aircraft carrier was in serve for. It was cool to see all the history on this ship!

AND... dun, da-da, dah... here is our room on the cruise ship! Complete with our very own balcony!

I was so excited about all the cool stuff on the ship! Here I am standing in front of the waterslide on the deck by the 2 pools and spas.

Taking off to Baja Mexico!

They had all these cool things on the ship. This was outside of Pharoh's Palace, the theatre on the ship. He was so cool looking I had to give him a kiss!

Here is Johnny fooling around again!

Here are the glass elevators and a look up into the ship... cool, huh?

Here we are in the dining Room for our dress-up night dinner. We had the best waiter, Sammy and the couple we ate dinner every night were so sweet. It was fun to talk with them and make friends! I ate soooo much... the food was so good. I literally ate 2 appetizers, a main dish and 2 desserts every night!!!

We tried to be aware of our virtue on the boat :)

And... he's fooling around again! Super funny though!

I woke up on our our 2nd at sea with this view from my balcony! Welcome to paradise... AKA... Cabo San Lucas!

We took a triple-decker boat tour around Los Arcos, a beautiful rock formation. Here we are on the boat tour with Lover's Beach behind us.

Yeah... it was super windy!

Here's a view of our cruise ship from our boat tour. It was fun to see it and then know we could get back on it and have fun!

Every night while we were at dinner our room assistant, Johnathan, would turn down our bed covers and make us a little animal out of towels. Here is a cute little frog!

This guy... yes it's a guy with gold all over him! He looked like a statue and scared us when he moved while we were looking at him! He grabbed johnny by the neck with his hook and I just had to take a picture!

Someone had caught a Marlin and Johnny got a pic next to it.

Welcome to Ensenada! It was a beautiful day and it was fun to arrive and get off the boat and tour around the town.

We went on a tour to La Bufadora, the blowhole. It was a cave in a little mountain by the coast and it would suck in water and the air would blow out and there would be a huge gush of water that would blow up into the air. Very cool!