I went on a cruise with my mom

On Feb 2oth - 23rd I went on a cruise with my mom. It was a business cruise and it was so fun. I will admit right now I did a horrible job taking pictures, so sorry. I flew to Orange County on Fri the 2oth and we boarded the boat that afternoon. We explored the boat and had lunch while we waited to have access to our room. I got a few pictures from around the boat to show the kids. Here is one from the top level looking over the Lido deck and pool.

Her is picture of the mini golf course up top. We did play golf one day and yes I beat mom. I don't know how well since I forgot to write down one of her scores, but even with out it I still beat her :). It was a little difficult since the ball would roll withe ship as it swayed.

The room was fine, The funniest part (dang, I forgot to get pic of it) was the curtain over mom's bed that had a wall behind it. We had inside room without a view, how nice that they tried to create the illusion for us.
I got a pic of one of the towel animals that the stewards leave to welcome us "home" in the evening.

When we got to Ensinada mom and I took a shore excursion to a ranch to enjoy a Mexican Fiesta. It was fun, the bus took us around down town Ensinada first and we were able to scope out our shopping trip for later. We then went to the top of a hill to a ranch where we enjoyed a lunch of Chicken, rice and beans with corn tortilla. While we ate we were entertained by a couple of Mexican dances and a rope twirler. The rope twirler was especially neat to watch since he is so good that he travels all over the nation and is very good at what he does. It was most impressive when we found out he was 76 years old! Of course any Mexican party must end with a pinata. They called up people to participate and lucky mom was selected.

View of the hills at the ranch. Also in the picture a mommy horse with her 3 day old foal. After lunch we headed back into town where mom and I opted to get off the bus to shop. It was great timing since they were having a carnival parade at the same time, so all the vendors and store owners were more interested in watching the parade and we were free to shop with out being hovered over. We each got some great souvenirs to bring home to our families.

The next day was Sunday and our day at sea. Like I said it was a business trip so we had seminars all day. Mom belongs to a group called Leads, it is a networking group and so the seminars were about how to grow you business and ways to maintain it. I learned a lot and wished Chad was with me so that he could have heard all the great information first hand. I hope to go again next year if they do this again.

Monday we got home and I decided had not been long enough, not because I didn't want to go home to my family, I just didn't want to go home to real life. It was so relaxing and nice to not have to worry about everyday stuff. Chad and the kids met me at the airport. I told him to meet me at the curb, but they were waiting just outside of security and I was so excited to see them. Court cried and held on to me because she had missed me.

We grabbed a bite to eat on the way home and when we got home I gave everyone their gift and then got on to my e-mail to e-mail Casey's teacher something. As soon as logging on I saw an e-mail about the HOA meeting I was supposed to be at and was now 1 1/2 hours late! I said good by to my family and ran off to the last 1 1/2 of the meeting, got home after 9:00 and went to bed. The next morning I volunteered at school and had work that afternoon and the next day. I also had to make posters for the upcoming restaurant night fundraiser for the school...... Like I said the cruise was not long enough. Back to real life.