Our Day in Cabo

We were surprised to have our breakfast arrive at 6:50 and we had ordered it for 7:30 and a wake up call was for 7:00. But it was not a problem because we were already awake enjoying the arrival into Cabo.It was bather in sunlight so we got  great pictures.

We were amazed at how cool it was after the blistering heat. A few degrees of latitude make a big difference.

It was cool in the morning but by afternoon it was bearably hot. Good for tanning.

We went to Explorers where our excursion group was to meet . We sat with a couple who had just retired and he was on his first cruise. Their names are Judy and Joe. We spent the entire pre excursion time chatting with then and giving them some tips. We ended up sitting near them on the beach and we had lunch with them as well. We invited them to come to our room for a drink of wine before dinner. They seem to be very nice. Talking with them brought us back to our first cruise and how excited we were then.

But back to the tour: When we disembarked we ended up on a Cabo tender rather than a Princess tender. It was much smaller and that meant we were loaded and on the move before the other Princess tender.

When we arrived on shore we waited for the entire group to assemble and then we walked to the 3 waiting vans which drove for about ten minutes and left us at Casa Dorada. It was the same resort that we were at in December.

 Amazingly the guide remembered us. Last time there were only about 9 of us this time there were at least 40. We were given our wrist bands and our coupons which entitled us to a meal and a beverage. The hospitality suite was very beautiful and it actually reminded us of our time share at Westgate Lakes. It also had a Grecian tub and a wonderful patio.

We chose recliners on the sand and went into the water right away. Ken went deep but I did not. I sat in the water for awhile. By the way that was not wise. The wave action meant that sand was in places it was not meant to be in.

Back at the loungers we discovered that drinks were very reasonable. We got 2 Bahama Mamas for only six dollars which we thought was very reasonable after a month of ship prices for drinks.

The vendors were very respectful of the rope that separated us from them. Some people were shopping but when you went to the water a simple no thank you did the trick. Judy bought a silver ring and Joe got a temporary tattoo. He is going to tell his friends that he got drunk and does not remember where or when he got it. He will not tell them it lasts only 2 weeks.

Lunch was not as grand this time. It was a buffet. We used our coupons and had a second beverage.

We were expecting to see a lot more signs of Cinco de Mayo but except for a few lantern you would not know it was a special day.

Soon our 4 hours was up and we were in a van and on our way back to the pier. We roamed through a couple of markets but the pressure from the vendors makes it not suitable for browsing so we went to the tender pier.

This time we were on a Princess Tender back to the ship.

We got back to our room around 3:30 so there was just enough time to clean up and dress for dinner because we had invited Joe and Judy to stop by at 4:15. We showed them our room gave them a few more tips and generally had a great visit.

We went to the dining room and had a very nice dinner. The maitre d came by and spoke to us again. He is really am amazing officer. We all like him. The entrance to the dining room and the bars all had decorations for the Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

On the last cruises on the Regal we made a point of collecting a set of those liqueur glasses. We choose blue. On this cruise they tried to sell them to us and we said we would buy them if they had red ones. They did not. Caesar, our waiter wanted us to buy but I kept telling him I would only buy if the glasses were red.

You buy Baileys to go in your coffee and it comes in one of these beautiful glasses and you get to keep the glass. Well much to my surprise last night the red glasses appeared. We will be having Baileys with our coffee during each of the next 3 nights so we will have our set of 8 red glasses when we disembark the Island Princess. Yeah!!

After dinner we went to the show. It was billed as a funny magic . Lorenzo Clark was labeled a comedy Magician. I was not expecting much. He was much better that I expected. But for some reason I was very tired and it was hard to appreciate him.

So when the show was over we returned to our room and even though it was early we called it a night. Tomorrow is a sea day, yeah!!

A funny thing happened the other night that I forgot to comment on. Pam is a walker and the other day she walked the deck. She has a smart phone and she set an app before she began. It was supposed to tell her how quickly she walked that mile. When finished she looked at her phone and it told her she had walked that mile in 3.61 minutes. A WORLD RECORD !!! Wow. After a confused few minutes she concluded that the app had registered her speed combined with the speed of the ship. So a tip: don’t use a GPS app to record your speed when you are jogging or walking on a ship. I wonder what it would have recorded had she been on a plane??