Mexico Cruise - Wednesday

Justin and I finally went on an adult vacation! We took a 3 night cruise on the Carnival Imagination to Ensenada, Mexico. We loved every minute of it! 

Wednesday- Travel to Long Beach

Thursday- Leave Long Beach

Friday- Ensenada

Saturday- At Sea

Sunday- Arrive at Long Beach/Travel back home

To make it easier for everyone, I'm going to break down the blog post by days. Yay!

Justin and I left Wednesday afternoon to headed down to Long Beach. We wanted to get there a day early so we knew that we would make the ship on time, and start our vacation a day early by spending the night at the Long Beach Pier. 

If anyone has driven the path from southern Utah to southern California... It looks like this most of the way. Woohoo... Justin and I had fun singing in the car, and catching up on podcasts.

Since we were passing Vegas, we had to stop at Dunkin Donuts; a little piece of home :)

I seem to forget to take a picture before I eat it!

One of the best places to stop at in the drive is the Mad Greek in Primm or Baker. Justin loves to stop there and pick up his favorite food, a gyro! I wasn't super hungry at the time, so I got a pita and some hummus. It was so delicious! If you make that trip on I-15, I highly suggest stopping and enjoying some great Greek food!

sorry for the fuzzy picture :(

Justin loves it!

We pulled into Long Beach the hotel around 5:30 and hopped on the public transportation to head to the pier. We weren't hungry right away so we walked around and looked at the boats.

It was a "romance" dinner cruise

The water was showing wave patterns. It was really cool to watch it.

We saw the Queen Mary off in the distance.

And I got my foot in the sand!

The pier had a Ferris wheel and I really wanted to go on it. I convinced Justin to go and it turned out we were the only ones on the Ferris wheel at the time. Granted it was Wednesday night and there was a "taste of Long Beach" thing going on that we didn't know about; but it was fun going by our selves.

Justin said I looked really happy to be on it. I love Ferris wheels!

The view from the top!

Had to get the kissy picture!

 
We got an extra long ride since we were the only ones on it! Yay! Justin told me that this was the first Ferris wheel that he's ever been on (without a cage. Disneyland's doesn't count.) After the Ferris wheel we ate at California Pizza Kitchen... another thing we miss! We don't make i to Salt Lake as often as we would like. Slow night, and they were training a few new people, so the service was slow, but still worth it!

We were so tired that I didn't get any more pictures but we tried their new flat breads. We need one closer so we could eat more! 

We headed back to the bus after dinner and went to bed to get ready for our embarkation day!