July 23, 2008, Mazatlan

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

So today was my birthday. It has certainly turned out to be a very interesting and strange cruise. In retrospect, I am going to hit on the highlights as I’m sitting here on Deck 5 since the Quiet Cove Café seems to have lost their AC and all the plugs are taken with fans. I warned you all this has been a strange cruise.

So today was Mazatlan. We ended up getting the Salsa and Salsa Excursion. Our tablemates decided to join us (after he got Christian involved – long story for a later time) Anyway, after much last minute scrambling, it was decided to leave us as we were for by this time, I had made alternate plans. So we end up making salsa and dancing salsa. This was an am excursion and good thing it was – it was too dang hot. We did the salsa, which was a bit rushed but the margaritas were damn good! Yours truly was picked along with our tablemates who were celebrating their 25th anniversary to make margaritas and flavored ones. Which we all shared of course.
Afterwards, you were given an option of enjoying the pool which would have been a nice diversion or the beach which was steps away. It’s a nice excursion but a bit expensive for what it really is – time wasted. The whole thing could have been done in 2 hours but they stretched it out by 1 -2 hrs. Besides, it was so hot, you couldn’t enjoy anything.
So then after, Steve and the girls returned to the ship while Vern, Karen and I went candy shopping and souvenir shopping. But again, it was so hot, we got what we needed and then left. By 2 pm, we were back at the hotel, got a taxi which was our form of transportation from the excursion and then did a bit of terminal shopping. While there, I caught Megan and Yesenia coming from the ship and we wandered the terminal a bit. I got a bit woozy and decided to go to the ship where I promptly fell asleep – which was exactly what Steve did when he returned, instead of coming back to help me candy shop. Needless to say, I was a bit upset. But that was fixed later.
I had an appt at 6:30 and had my hair done. Alex from Turkey got me and managed to make me look like a queen. I was very happy. He was too since I gave him free reign to do what he wanted. I, of course, wore my queen crown which was bigger than my formal crown and got rave reviews.
Dinner was at Animator’s Palette and our tablemates celebrating their 25th anniversary went to Palo’s. Dinner was weird. I did not get sung too – boo hoo! But that’s ok because I got the Palo’s soufflé.
Oh, did I mention that I received a very nice bottle of Korbel Wine package in my room? It was from Nickeisha from Guest Services and she even followed up with a call in the hopes that my cruise was turning from an unhappy experience to a happy one. I even got a call from Christian himself apologizing for all the mishaps we had been experiencing. Told you all this cruise was weird.

Afterwards, Steve and I ended up in Rocking Bar D. The girls and Andrew were there. I mentioned onboard that Andrew was sick coming from the Tequila, Huareches and Saddlemaking or something like that, well, turns out it was becaue of what he ate. He has a condition that he needs to watch what he eats – no starches, corn, etc. Yeah well, he knew better. He did and he ended up on the toilet. He ended up asking for Immodium since his problem was not allowing him to get off the toilet. Steve went down to the shops but they told him he’d have to go to the medical center. He did, they wanted to see him (turns out there was a breakout on the ship last week) due to some earlier problems. This one HOWEVER, was not related to the ship – this was related to his condition. So, folks, things are good from the El Pacifico restaurant. Eat free and be merry. Things are good here.

Anyway, someone, I’m not sure who……….(LOL) requested Footloose and after dancing to it I was able to go to sleep. So on to my next adventure – Puerto Vallerta.
See you on the flip side

Laura