day 105: Allison and I had a blast on our cruise but all the late nights and early mornings were starting to catch up with us so I was happy to be back on dry land. We spent most of the morning napping on the couch with Rita, but she also got to take part in her favorite activity… watching people cook. She is ever hopeful that something tasty will fall from above.

day 104: The last day of the cruise was a “fun day at sea”. We were still hoping to keep the spending to a minimum so instead of shopping, gambling, or drinking (the major activities proposed by the cruise line) we wandered around the ship and took photos.

day 103: On the third day of the cruise we landed in Ensenada. Instead of walking around we decided to take a shore excursion and ride up to Rosarito to lounge on the beach. Since we were going to be in the sand all day I didn’t bring along my camera. I took some photos back on board later in the afternoon. This one is from the deck of the ship.

day 102: First stop on our cruise was Catalina Island. Since the major selling point of a cruise for us was the all-inclusive part, we decided not to go with any shore excursions and just to roam around instead. We tried out the beach for a while but were surrounded by strange giant bees so we changed plans and explored the city a little bit. Avalon is teeny tiny and so are the houses. This small house had a very strange collection of bird houses out front. The boot reminds me of my good old Texas days. Yeehaw!

day 101: To celebrate our summer birthdays, Allison and I took a cruise to Catalina and Mexico. It was a fabulous trip and so nice to get to spend some sister time.

to bring you this message from carnival cruise lines : OUR WiFi IS TERRIBLE!
Allison and I are on a girly birthday cruise and had hoped to update our blogs with our laptops and wifi, but the connection is FAR too slow to upload photos if we want to do anything else at all while we’re onboard. I’ll catch up with a mega post when we get back in town Friday. Stay tuned!

day 100: Allison picked this photo to be my super-fab 100th post. We went to Disneyland for fathers’ day and while we were waiting around for said father to arrive, we took some photos of the jungle cruise shop merchandise. Want a pillow?

day 99: We planned to meet friends at Hollywood Forever tonight, but the cards were definitely stacked against us. After circling for parking for a half hour we found out the gates were closed. We decided to head to Santa Monica to catch a showing of La Vie en Rose instead. We entered a garage that claimed to have 12 available spaces where we circled from top to bottom for about 15 minutes. Once we finally found a space we rushed to eat some of the food we’d brought for the picnic and ran to the theater only to find out it was the wrong one… and too late to make it to the right one. At which point we gave up and watched Pirates of the Caribbean instead. That is a looooong movie.

day 98: After work last night some of my coworkers and I went out for a drink at a local bar. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and for all of the kind words. It meant a lot to have you all there. We will definitely keep in touch.

day 97: Ben’s softball game got canceled so we decided to have a night out instead. We had some tasty sushi in culver city… mmm veggie rolls.