honeymoon

For our honeymoon we went on a cruise out of San Diego!! The cruise ship stopped for a day in Catalina and a day in Ensenada, Mexico. Of course, we also spent a lot of time on the ship itself. The top picture is at one of our elaborate dinners. Funny enough, we ended up sitting at a group table (we had requested a table for two) right next to another newly-wed LDS couple! haha. There were 4 couple total and so half of us were LDS. Anyhow, the dinners were nice and the waiters would always have some song/dance prepared to entertain us. Also, if the found out that it was your birthday or honeymoon you got extra attention! Woo-Hoo. So this is where the story behind the above photo begins. Our waiter (romeo) found out that it was our honeymoon so one night at dinner we got sang to: "Happy Honeymoon To You" . . . They draped the napkin over our heads and told us we had to kiss during the whole song. Haha. Funny people. The ship also had fun shows and things. When they would come in a clean up our room they would leave us towel creations like the one below.



Our day in Mexico was awesome. We took a tour to the blow-hole and shopped around a market street. We had a chatter-box tour guide who told us some crazy stories about everything (how she tried to feed her kids healthy, how whales feed their babies, how to properly eat a fish taco, how to bargain with the vendors. . .) The first photo is of the vending street. We had fun looking around their shops. But man, they really wanted you to buy something. By the end of our shopping adventure Kyle had gotten a new wallet ("Gucci" none the less, haha ) and I got a pretty sweet purse too! They tried to tell me my purse usually sold for $200 and that for me it would be only $90. Hehehehe. I wanted it for $15, they wanted me to pay $25 minimum, I ended up paying $20. So that was fun.


Below is one of the fish tacos that we ate. They were soo good. And now for a quote from our tour guide: "You know the sharks in the ocean? The ones that usually eat us . . . Well, here we eat them!" So apparently the meat in the fish tacos is actually fried shark. The tacos were really good.


The picture below is of us at the blow hole. The water you see behind us is spraying up through the blow hole. I would try and put up a video but the videos from my camera are always huge and I doubt it would up-load . . . anyway, it was really neat. The water shoots up way high.


The next few photos are from Catalina Island. It's a cute little island! Kyle and I rented these electric bikes. We could pedal (but they had two big battery packs on them so it was way heavy to pedal them) or just switch them to full-power. We got them for an hour and pretty much saw the whole island on them. The bikes were one of my favorite color and I'd always wanted to try a powered bike so it was a lot of fun. We had a blast. Those battery packs are lethal though. I still have two scars on my shin from where I would hit part of the pack while swinging my leg over to get on the bike :) Haha.


Asides from the bikes, we took a tour on the semi-submerged submarine that you see in the photos below. From the inside we could look out the windows and see tons of fish swim by. It was cool because the submarine was also equipped with these big red buttons at each window. The button was labeled "fire." You could pay a couple extra dollars to have your fish-food-torpedoes loaded. When you hit "fire" the torpedo shoots fish food out of the ship above your window. There were lots of hungry fishies.


And that's how our cruise went!! You can kind of see it in the photo above, Kyle had a cold sore that week. I got accused a couple of times of punching him in the face or injuring him in some way. This wasn't the case. Hehe. Yep! That's our honeymoon in a nutshell!