Blog: Cruise to Mexico

Cruise to Mexico - Tuesday, September 15, 2009

This past weekend I went on a cruise to Ensenada with Priscilla and her parents. It was tremendous fun! And Priscilla paid for it, so how could I refuse? =)

On Friday we drove down to San Diego where we boarded the Carnival Elation and set sail in the evening. All of Saturday was spent at sea, on Sunday we made landing at Ensenada from morning till evening, and Monday morning we made it back to home port.

Here are some highlights from the cruise:

Good food available 24 hours a day. Great food in the evenings in the sit-down restaurant where everything from the bread to the potatoes to the broiled snapper was fine-tuned just right.
Formal dining night where we got to dress up really swanky and had lobster for dinner.
Two hilarious stand-up comedy routines by comedian/biker Russ Nagel. PG-13 and R-rated versions.
Spin - a sort of musical that showcases various cities where different music genres were born.
An outrageous hypnotist show where the funniest part of the show involved the hypnotist turning one guy into a shoe-loving kleptomaniac, making him steal and hide the shoes of anybody he put to sleep.
Pris and I getting our pictures taken by professionals in front of various backdrops along the ship's promenade deck.
Guys vs. girls Family Feud, in which the girls won after trailing the guys 0-200 something because of a scoring rule nobody seemed to know about.
Tasty tacos and authentic (I think) chips, which were three times as thick as the chips I'm accustomed to, in Ensenada.
Being approached on the street every 20 feet by people trying to sell necklaces, clothing, luchador masks, food, horse-drawn-cart rides, buggy rentals and sight-seeing excursions.
Buying a necklace for Priscilla from a street vendor, and haggling the price from an initial $5 down to $2, but I think we still got ripped off. =)
Getting a different towel animal every night when the cleaning staff would clean up our staterooms!