Mexico Cruise 2016

 To make it easier and I'm not posting 147019823098123 pictures at once I'm going to break down our trip into days.

Day One- Travel down to Long Beach 

Day Two- Embarkation

Day Three- Day at Sea

Day Four- Catalina Island

Day Five- Ensenada 

Day Six- Debarkation and travel home

Day One! 

We left on Sunday to travel down to Long Beach. We left at 9 am to head south.. we only had a couple of hiccups like someone misplaced the quarters for the bus in Long Beach.. it wasn't me.. nope.. :)

I drove the first half of the drive to Primm where we stopped for lunch. If you've ever had to take this drive... it's sooooo thrilling. 

We were glad when we passed by Baker and the giant thermometer was up and running. It looks like they finally fixed it and up dated it! 

Hottest part of the drive; a balming 78 degrees.

We ended up running into a dust storm between Baker and Bakersfield. The wind was so intense during the drive, from the storm up north, that we were being blown all over the road.

We ended up pulling into Long Beach around 4 pm and quickly got checked in and into our hotel room. We stayed at the same place as we did last time and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a decently priced Park and Cruise package! 

Traveling is really hard! 

We went to dinner a little early but it was worth it!  We found a highly rated Thai food restaurant across the street from our hotel and oh my was it delicious! All 3 of us couldn't get enough :) 

When we were finished with dinner, we grabbed the bus down to the Pike! I'm so glad they had fixed up the pier since we had been there. There was many more people and a lot more stores open! 

Jack had a couple little selfish moments of wanting to do absolutely everything there, like riding the Ferris Wheel and the bouncing trampoline and going to the aquarium, but we remained her that we are here to go to the Lighthouse and see the pier. 

Apparently my phone takes blurry pictures of the Queen Mary.

Jack decided that she wanted to run up and down the hill that the light house was on.. go for it child! Go for it. Yes... see how many times you can run up and down in a minute. 

It was getting windy,cold, and late, so we hopped back on the bus and went back to the hotel. Thank goodness she tired herself out enough to pass out and not be too excited for tomorrow! 

Embarkation tomorrow!