Tuesday, August 19, 2008
CABO & ZIP LINING! YEAH! So as you can tell, today was our very first port and it was Cabo San Lucas. I had originally planned on nothing then I was reminded when I got a note on my door that many moons ago I had signed up with Paula to do Zip Lining in Cabo.
It’s late and I’m beat but here it is in a nutshell. Paula (Pbader) set up a party of 7 total (which we were joined by another party in the vans. Anyway, it was Laura (FairyGodmother, her DD – Elizabeth, Paula, Monica (Got2Travel) and her DS – Trevoy, Steve and myself. We got up at 8 – had breakfast, ran to Buena Vista Theatre got our tender ticket and at 9 am – they started allowing people off. We got into the first 2 tenders and were ashore before 9:30. We were supposed to meet the personnel picking us up at 10 so we waited a bit. While waiting, we noticed a stretcher being brought out on the pier and sure enough, a lady with her right leg encased in a soft cast was brought out. Then her DD and DH followed by their luggage. That’s right folks, our first port and already we have a casualty. I guess they ended up leaving. Found out later that another lady had a problem and I believe I’m told they left too unless it’s the same lady.
So we get to the place - Wild Canyon and I immediately think – this looks familiar. Come to find out it was featured in a Fear Factor episode. If anyone recalls that one – yeah – it’s that scary looking. There are supposed to be 10 zip lines but only 8 were operational and a good thing they were too. I about nearly had a heat stroke. So they start us off with a bang! First, instructions on how to break, how to get ourselves moving if we stop (which actually gave me flashbacks to the “Wall” in Basic Training – YIKES!), how to properly align our bodies – not that it did much good. First a baby one – 167 ft with a speed of about 3.2 speed – this was easy. We were allowed to take pictures and since their photographers weren’t there – we all went to town. I had brought my small waterproof and shockproof camera just in case but the other party had their Canon 40D and 2 other SLRs. I’m glad I didn’t as I got “bump”ed a lot – especially in the bump. LOL
The 2nd one was a waker upper. We got to go tandem and Steve went first, I went and put my feet under his armpits and we were off. This was fine – I started laughing and got the evil Dr. Evil maniacal laugh. We made it safe to the other ravine – I forgot how long this was but it sure as heck wasn’t any 164 ft. When we got off this line, we had to climb up and when I mean UP – I mean UP – my heart was pounding so bad I about nearly passed myself out. If any of you have been following my blogs, remember my description of the Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta Sierra Madre hike? Yeah – that bad. It cut a path back and forth and almost straight up. It really wasn’t that long but I had to stop 5 times. By this time, the heat is just about to kick in. So I finally make it to the top, dead exhausted just from the climb up when I get all excited because I see a line – only to be told by the people waiting, this is the last one – you got to go that a way – pointing to the left trail which I see Steve going down. My heart dropped. Here my heart was pounding, I was lightheaded and nearly passing out but like a good trooper, I paced myself. Finally got to Zip Line #3 and waited for the party ahead of us to go.
Things proceed this way up to line #5, by this time, the sun is dead hot and the other party loses about 1/3 of their party and our 7 ends down to 3. Its wasn’t the zip lining folks, it was the unbearable heat. It would have ended down to 2 but for one thing. I am as stubborn as a ……… well, you can fill in the blanks. I get off zip line 5 only to tell Steve, who – I’m dizzy – my blood pressure dropped – I had zipped lying down and my head arched back so it was below my heart zipping along. Stood up too fast and so it dropped. But the line guide took one look at me and said, I really suggest that you take the “shortcut” from line 5 to 8 (which we passed up a LONG TIME AGO!) Of course, you all know that when you tell me not to do something, I’m going to do exactly the opposite. So I look at Steve, dump the water bottle over my head after taking off my helmet and proceed to tell Steve, let’s go – I’m finishing if it kills me. LOL
Monica graciously allowed her son Trevoy to come with us and while we climbed to line #6, they took off to 8. We were all looking forward to sitting down but poor Trevoy – as soon as we climbed (yes – its all climbs) up to line 6, the other party had to have some people leave by car/bus so he took poor Trevoy and they zipped down to 7. Well, things progressed this way until line 8. Line 8 was a single zip and the longest. During this zip about ½ down you must “break” to break your speed and you are precariously close to a cliff. I didn’t realize how close until I zip on by and a twig brushed by helmet and nearly seared off my butt. LOL – ok – it was only about 2 ft from my head. I got twisted but I made it!
It was extremely hot and tiring but I can honestly say, now that I’m not dead of heat stroke, I am so proud of myself. I knew I could do it. I just wasn’t sure this old body of mine would cooperate. Let me just say that I totally understand the saying – the spirit is strong but the flesh is weak.
So after finishing the last zip – I had to do guess what? Yup! One last climb to get to the starting point. We get done, get a drink and then the driver takes us back – by this time it is 2:45. He drops us off at Cabo Wabo – and Megan – there are two parts to Cabo Wabo. We found the back entrance! ROTFMAO. The other side, where the Giggling Marlin is – you remember that spot I pointed out where I had my fiasco with the phone – the timing part? Yeah – well that is actually the entrance to the restaurant. Our party made its way into the bar and I immediately flashed another era. Private booths, groovy lights, drunk people. OK – not drunk as it was too early and all aboard was 5 pm but you get the drift. For those that have been there when its happening – it was gearing up to be a good night to be in Cabo Wabo! LOL
So Steve and I say our good-byes and we leave to pick up some things I forgot, like a hairbrush, contact lens drops, mascara (which I really didn’t forget – LOL) lotion, aspirin, etc. So then once they were picked up we got to have a small lunch, we ate at the taco bar in front of Cabo Wabo where we both got the 4 taco special and since we were extremely hungry – went for broke and ordered a quesadilla plate too. We devoured it and left back to catch the tender. No more late runs for me! ROTFL.
We get back to the ship and as soon as we enter the room, I peel off my nasty, dirty, filthy, dirt stained, used to be white t-shirt and access the sun damage. Not as bad as I expected. So I guess I didn’t sweat it all off. Took a shower and attempted a nap but got up to go see the variety show featuring – Ron Pearson. He was really hilarious folks and if you ever get a chance to see him – I highly suggest it. He’s the one I wrote about last night – the one that got his start at the La Mirada Swap Meet.
Got out, went back to the room and then made dinner. It was Parrot Cay tonight – got there late as I had a minor fiasco with the Secret Mickey – got that worked out and we went. I ordered off the kids menu as it featured turkey with gravy. Cheryl had gotten a humongous plateload of shrimp and forced us all to eat some. Dessert, for me was French Toast Bread Pudding with coconut ice cream and a sauce. I ate about 1/3 of it until I realized my pants were tight. We got up and left as the adult cabaret show tonight featured the variety show of John Charles. I wrote about him a little on the May blog. He was in top form today.
For those of you that know Todd and Melissa, John Charles dubbed them the cruise line version of Ken and Barbie. Then Cheryl upstaged him by ……well…….. ok – I won’t tell for what happens in Rocking Bar D – is supposed to stay in Rocking Bar D. I will leave it at that other than to say that Cheryl reacted to a comment and had the whole audience rocking with laughter. Even John broke up with laughter. Score one for the Leo gals! ROTFL.
After that, Steve and I pretty much left as we were beat from all the sun. So that folks, is a long, hot, exhausting day. And Wednesday is set for another one. Puerto Vallarta has been extended from 11:30 to 1 am so we get to party!!!! At 12:30, our Historic Town and Tequila Making gets rolling and we are doing that with Cheryl and John. For those of you that know me – you think I’m busy – I have no idea how John keeps up with Cheryl – she’s the belle of the ball on here. Its amazing. Although, she’s was too busy socializing to spend much time dancing……… hmmm…… that’s cutting into my dance time. LOL
Oh – one small tidbit. You all know that this is my 13th (15th if you count the Wonder) cruise on the Magic alone. Well, as we returned from putting our pin requests in, I got a certificate on my fish – it was a certificate of “Magic-al Moments” which is a guest recognition certificate that crew members hand out. I’ve seen them before but I’ve never gotten one. April I believe has but I got one for “being me.” I guess I made the girl laugh when she was doing my hair. Its either that or she just totally felt sorry for the inept woman that sat down in front of her – either way, I thought that was extremely nice of them to do.
So with that, my eyes are drooping and I need to get some sleep. I am off early on Wednesday to pick up Megan a Louis Vitton rip-off bag. Why? I don’t know.
But that’s all for now folks, stay tuned.
TTYL - Laura
P.S. - we are now 2 hrs ahead of PST. So while I may think its 12:30 - its really 1:30 meanwhile my brain keeps thinking its 10:30. I am falling asleep so off I go.
Till Later.
CABO & ZIP LINING! YEAH! So as you can tell, today was our very first port and it was Cabo San Lucas. I had originally planned on nothing then I was reminded when I got a note on my door that many moons ago I had signed up with Paula to do Zip Lining in Cabo.
It’s late and I’m beat but here it is in a nutshell. Paula (Pbader) set up a party of 7 total (which we were joined by another party in the vans. Anyway, it was Laura (FairyGodmother, her DD – Elizabeth, Paula, Monica (Got2Travel) and her DS – Trevoy, Steve and myself. We got up at 8 – had breakfast, ran to Buena Vista Theatre got our tender ticket and at 9 am – they started allowing people off. We got into the first 2 tenders and were ashore before 9:30. We were supposed to meet the personnel picking us up at 10 so we waited a bit. While waiting, we noticed a stretcher being brought out on the pier and sure enough, a lady with her right leg encased in a soft cast was brought out. Then her DD and DH followed by their luggage. That’s right folks, our first port and already we have a casualty. I guess they ended up leaving. Found out later that another lady had a problem and I believe I’m told they left too unless it’s the same lady.
So we get to the place - Wild Canyon and I immediately think – this looks familiar. Come to find out it was featured in a Fear Factor episode. If anyone recalls that one – yeah – it’s that scary looking. There are supposed to be 10 zip lines but only 8 were operational and a good thing they were too. I about nearly had a heat stroke. So they start us off with a bang! First, instructions on how to break, how to get ourselves moving if we stop (which actually gave me flashbacks to the “Wall” in Basic Training – YIKES!), how to properly align our bodies – not that it did much good. First a baby one – 167 ft with a speed of about 3.2 speed – this was easy. We were allowed to take pictures and since their photographers weren’t there – we all went to town. I had brought my small waterproof and shockproof camera just in case but the other party had their Canon 40D and 2 other SLRs. I’m glad I didn’t as I got “bump”ed a lot – especially in the bump. LOL
The 2nd one was a waker upper. We got to go tandem and Steve went first, I went and put my feet under his armpits and we were off. This was fine – I started laughing and got the evil Dr. Evil maniacal laugh. We made it safe to the other ravine – I forgot how long this was but it sure as heck wasn’t any 164 ft. When we got off this line, we had to climb up and when I mean UP – I mean UP – my heart was pounding so bad I about nearly passed myself out. If any of you have been following my blogs, remember my description of the Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta Sierra Madre hike? Yeah – that bad. It cut a path back and forth and almost straight up. It really wasn’t that long but I had to stop 5 times. By this time, the heat is just about to kick in. So I finally make it to the top, dead exhausted just from the climb up when I get all excited because I see a line – only to be told by the people waiting, this is the last one – you got to go that a way – pointing to the left trail which I see Steve going down. My heart dropped. Here my heart was pounding, I was lightheaded and nearly passing out but like a good trooper, I paced myself. Finally got to Zip Line #3 and waited for the party ahead of us to go.
Things proceed this way up to line #5, by this time, the sun is dead hot and the other party loses about 1/3 of their party and our 7 ends down to 3. Its wasn’t the zip lining folks, it was the unbearable heat. It would have ended down to 2 but for one thing. I am as stubborn as a ……… well, you can fill in the blanks. I get off zip line 5 only to tell Steve, who – I’m dizzy – my blood pressure dropped – I had zipped lying down and my head arched back so it was below my heart zipping along. Stood up too fast and so it dropped. But the line guide took one look at me and said, I really suggest that you take the “shortcut” from line 5 to 8 (which we passed up a LONG TIME AGO!) Of course, you all know that when you tell me not to do something, I’m going to do exactly the opposite. So I look at Steve, dump the water bottle over my head after taking off my helmet and proceed to tell Steve, let’s go – I’m finishing if it kills me. LOL
Monica graciously allowed her son Trevoy to come with us and while we climbed to line #6, they took off to 8. We were all looking forward to sitting down but poor Trevoy – as soon as we climbed (yes – its all climbs) up to line 6, the other party had to have some people leave by car/bus so he took poor Trevoy and they zipped down to 7. Well, things progressed this way until line 8. Line 8 was a single zip and the longest. During this zip about ½ down you must “break” to break your speed and you are precariously close to a cliff. I didn’t realize how close until I zip on by and a twig brushed by helmet and nearly seared off my butt. LOL – ok – it was only about 2 ft from my head. I got twisted but I made it!
It was extremely hot and tiring but I can honestly say, now that I’m not dead of heat stroke, I am so proud of myself. I knew I could do it. I just wasn’t sure this old body of mine would cooperate. Let me just say that I totally understand the saying – the spirit is strong but the flesh is weak.
So after finishing the last zip – I had to do guess what? Yup! One last climb to get to the starting point. We get done, get a drink and then the driver takes us back – by this time it is 2:45. He drops us off at Cabo Wabo – and Megan – there are two parts to Cabo Wabo. We found the back entrance! ROTFMAO. The other side, where the Giggling Marlin is – you remember that spot I pointed out where I had my fiasco with the phone – the timing part? Yeah – well that is actually the entrance to the restaurant. Our party made its way into the bar and I immediately flashed another era. Private booths, groovy lights, drunk people. OK – not drunk as it was too early and all aboard was 5 pm but you get the drift. For those that have been there when its happening – it was gearing up to be a good night to be in Cabo Wabo! LOL
So Steve and I say our good-byes and we leave to pick up some things I forgot, like a hairbrush, contact lens drops, mascara (which I really didn’t forget – LOL) lotion, aspirin, etc. So then once they were picked up we got to have a small lunch, we ate at the taco bar in front of Cabo Wabo where we both got the 4 taco special and since we were extremely hungry – went for broke and ordered a quesadilla plate too. We devoured it and left back to catch the tender. No more late runs for me! ROTFL.
We get back to the ship and as soon as we enter the room, I peel off my nasty, dirty, filthy, dirt stained, used to be white t-shirt and access the sun damage. Not as bad as I expected. So I guess I didn’t sweat it all off. Took a shower and attempted a nap but got up to go see the variety show featuring – Ron Pearson. He was really hilarious folks and if you ever get a chance to see him – I highly suggest it. He’s the one I wrote about last night – the one that got his start at the La Mirada Swap Meet.
Got out, went back to the room and then made dinner. It was Parrot Cay tonight – got there late as I had a minor fiasco with the Secret Mickey – got that worked out and we went. I ordered off the kids menu as it featured turkey with gravy. Cheryl had gotten a humongous plateload of shrimp and forced us all to eat some. Dessert, for me was French Toast Bread Pudding with coconut ice cream and a sauce. I ate about 1/3 of it until I realized my pants were tight. We got up and left as the adult cabaret show tonight featured the variety show of John Charles. I wrote about him a little on the May blog. He was in top form today.
For those of you that know Todd and Melissa, John Charles dubbed them the cruise line version of Ken and Barbie. Then Cheryl upstaged him by ……well…….. ok – I won’t tell for what happens in Rocking Bar D – is supposed to stay in Rocking Bar D. I will leave it at that other than to say that Cheryl reacted to a comment and had the whole audience rocking with laughter. Even John broke up with laughter. Score one for the Leo gals! ROTFL.
After that, Steve and I pretty much left as we were beat from all the sun. So that folks, is a long, hot, exhausting day. And Wednesday is set for another one. Puerto Vallarta has been extended from 11:30 to 1 am so we get to party!!!! At 12:30, our Historic Town and Tequila Making gets rolling and we are doing that with Cheryl and John. For those of you that know me – you think I’m busy – I have no idea how John keeps up with Cheryl – she’s the belle of the ball on here. Its amazing. Although, she’s was too busy socializing to spend much time dancing……… hmmm…… that’s cutting into my dance time. LOL
Oh – one small tidbit. You all know that this is my 13th (15th if you count the Wonder) cruise on the Magic alone. Well, as we returned from putting our pin requests in, I got a certificate on my fish – it was a certificate of “Magic-al Moments” which is a guest recognition certificate that crew members hand out. I’ve seen them before but I’ve never gotten one. April I believe has but I got one for “being me.” I guess I made the girl laugh when she was doing my hair. Its either that or she just totally felt sorry for the inept woman that sat down in front of her – either way, I thought that was extremely nice of them to do.
So with that, my eyes are drooping and I need to get some sleep. I am off early on Wednesday to pick up Megan a Louis Vitton rip-off bag. Why? I don’t know.
But that’s all for now folks, stay tuned.
TTYL - Laura
P.S. - we are now 2 hrs ahead of PST. So while I may think its 12:30 - its really 1:30 meanwhile my brain keeps thinking its 10:30. I am falling asleep so off I go.
Till Later.
P.S. - picture above is taken at zip line #5 - right after he told me that I should probably not take 6 and 7. HAH! He doesn't know me very well does he? I'm stubborn as hell.
2 comments:
ROTFLMAO....Laura you are so funny!! Sounds like you had a great time zipping thru the trees. Tell Cheryl hi for me. Sounds like she is a hoot too! Too bad I am not going to get to meet her this time. Oh well, there will be more cruises. Count down is on...only 11 more days until I get to cruise with ya! See you then!!
Hey Laura, I'm glad that you guys got to go zippin' but it sure sounds like it was work more than fun. Keep the faith! Later Gator.
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