Cruise....part four

Cabo San Lucas

This was by far our favorite stop....and it was on Valentines Day. We started out pretty early (6:30am), it was our shortest stop of the trip, and we had to tender in (meaning the cruise ship anchors away from shore and we had to wait our turn to take little boats onto land)...so we really wanted to make the most of our time.

Here we are on our tendering boat...with the beautiful sunrise and cruise ship in the background

This is what happens when there are too many salesmen doing the bartering....we barter, make a decision, get in the boat, change our minds, get off the boat, barter again, make another decision, get back in the boat....etc. You can see us wives are just hanging out waiting...and waiting...and yes, the guys did have us all climb into the little shaky boat just to turn around and get back off and then....you guessed it...turn around and get back on. Oh well-we did end up getting a great deal.

Our first stop was Lover's Beach. This little island was beautiful and it was all ours. Our little group had the whole beach completely to ourselves...it was so fun.

Getting off the boat was a little shaky...at least the waves weren't too big on this side of the island. I had to catch some pictures of cute Hailey and Drew getting off the boat...it was Valentines Day after all

This was one of our first views of the beach...gorgeous!

Carter loved exploring. There were lots of little caves and crevices to see...he couldn't get enough of it all

Valentines Day 2008 for our little family...I think we'll always remember it!

Ty went snorkeling with a few of the other guys...they were gone a long time...and apparently saw some pretty amazing fish

There's our ship in the background

Me and my little Valentine

I couldn't decide on just one or two pictures of Cabo...it was so beautiful!

We changed into our swimsuits behind these rocks....Andrew heard that Tyson was changing and went running to catch it on video...poor Ty ;)

The waves were amazing on the backside of the island...now you see the group...now you don't. The guys (and Barbara and Lyndsey) really got worked by the waves, but they kept going back for more

Taylee sneaking into the sand again...I think she ended up eating sand from every beach we went to

After Lover's Beach we went to the mainland part of Cabo and ate lunch (I don't remember the name of the restaurant). My favorite part of the meal was the virgin pina coladas...they were amazing.

There were many vendors that came by to sell their products. This clown was kinda creepy, but we bought a little dog balloon with a heart for Carter


One of the vendors painted temporary tatoos. All the guys got these PPC (Preventive Pest Control) tattoos (paid for by Preventive ;)


Taylee was so patient and happy...our little princess in pink




Here are some shots of the shopping area of Cabo...and there were many options for shopping

We walked all the way along the shore back to the tendering boats (it ended up being a super long walk...but really pretty)

That night was our second formal night...for Valentines Day...yay! Here is Carter and his "girlfriend" Barbara all dressed up for the occasion


All dressed up and ready to eat!

Notice Carter's bare foot. He took off one sock and shoe while we waited to be seated. People would walk by us and joke that he knew how to turn formal night into semiformal...he was a cutie!

Our group hanging out waiting to be seated

The banquet table was really pretty...the cakes and gelatin were so creative

Carter kept sneaking chocolates off the banquet table...we didn't stop him because, well it was Valentines Day

A random lady gave the kids Valentines and suckers as we were being seated...so that's all the kids wanted to eat for dinner




The adults, on the other hand, had all we could eat lobster...I'm so hungry for it just looking at this pic...it was really good


As fun as it's been to go through all these pics, I'm excited to get back to the day to day grind pics...I think I have a few more closing cruise pics for kicks and then onto St. Patricks Day and Easter