...just posting one of these pictures of Cal from Easter. I'm hurrying to catch up a little and haven't gotten to this batch yet, but just had to get a picture of this little grin up. Doesn't that silly smile just brighten your day!?
Mexico Vacation: Part IV
The last couple days on the cruise were so fun and relaxing! We seriously just slept, read, got in the jacuzzi, sat by the pool, went to the gym, went to the shows, and watched movies in bed. We enjoyed some of the amenities on the ship--listened to different musicians and checked out the ice skating rink and rock climbing walls. It was a great end to a great vacation!
Here is a list of highlights from the whole trip so I can someday remember everything:
-Happening to get a handicap room that wasn't being used at the last minute! Serious score. It was TWICE the size of normal rooms and was soooo fun and spacious feeling compared to normal.
-Sleeping in every day without ever setting an alarm or getting woken up by a little person!
-Going to dinner and a show every night with my hubby and not having to worry about a babysitter or rushing home
-Watching the sun set on the ocean every evening from the window in our room
-Getting to take a shower and put on makeup every night and take as long as I wanted to get ready
-Dance parties with Dan to Kanye and Alicia Keys
-Going to the gym almost every day
-Laying out by the pool for hours
-Reading & playing cards
-Sun tans
-Watching movies snuggled up in bed
-Eating whenever and whatever we wanted. Including breakfast in bed most mornings.
-Soft Serve cones on the pool deck
-Taking cheesy pictures with the ship photographers and laughing so hard I almost peed my pants
-Being with Dan for 7 whole days and not having to work or clean or stress about anything else = the best!
Our big handicap bathroom :)
Super cheesy picture of us in our "formal night" clothes
A view of two of the pools and deck
Dan took a shot at the rock climbing wall. They had so many fun sports activities on the ship. Would've been great for kids.
Our awesomely spacious room!
(Dan hates me for making him be in these pictures, but who wants lots of pictures of a plain old room?)
Playing cards in our room. Dan even consented to play a hand or two of pounce! It was a miracle. I didn't cheat either....I promise.
On our last night we ordered a Virgin Pina Colada at the show that turned out not to be so virgin. Yuck. Seriously? Alcohol to a pregnant lady?? Oh well, at least it only took one sip to figure that one out.
One of the greatest parts of the whole thing was coming home and seeing our little man after missing him so much for a week. I wasn't sure if he'd be funny towards us or ignore us, or what. But what we got was just the sweetest reaction ever. When we walked in the door he ran straight up to me and just gave me the hugest hug and kept holding me and grinning at me for probably 5 whole minutes. When he went up to Dan afterwards he just hugged him around the neck and put his forehead on Dan's and said "I miss you Daddy". What a sweetie. He wasn't mad or sad that we'd left, and he hadn't been devastated by us being gone, but you could tell he'd had fun on his little adventure and missed us lots too and was so glad to have us back. Which was just perfect. It is so important and wonderful to get away once in awhile, but it felt so so good to be back together as a family too. When we gave him his new little drum set he started playing with it and then said to Dan. "Thank you Daddy, this is my favorite toy." AHHHH.....what a peanut.
Mexico Vacation: Part III
The last port we stopped at on our trip was Puerto Vallarta. It was by far our favorite and the most beautiful of all the cities. I could definitely see doing an all-inclusive resort there. We hopped a cab to the downtown area and walked around and did some bartering to get Cal a cute little drum set. Afterwards we went over to a resort called the NH Krystal Resort and enjoyed their beautiful pool, beach, and ate some delicious fish/chicken tacos for lunch. It was a beautiful day.
It was really hot and humid! But felt soooo nice!
The cobblestone streets downtown were beautiful and made it feel so quaint. It was more hilly and much more green than the other cities we stopped at.
You gotta love shopping in Mexico.
The resort was beautiful! We enjoyed all the pretty architecture, lines of palm trees, and the blue blue water of the pool and beach!
Mexico Vacation: Part II
Our second stop was in Mazatlan. We did the same thing when we got off the ship and just paid a guy to drive us around the city and show us some of the main sights. We got to wander around, window (or actually no windows :) ) shop a little, eat some yummy chips and salsa, and take lots of pictures. When we were downtown we decided to just play with the camera a little a took some pictures of each other. That is the hardest part of going on a trip with just the two of you--so hard to get pictures with more than one of you at a time! Mazatlan was an interesting place with lots of color and very friendly people.
A view of Mazatlan
If you look hard you can see us in a store mirror
There were so many cool, colorful buildings that would have been so much fun for a photoshoot!
Dan's sunglasses busted the first day we were on the ship, so when we got to Mazatlan, he bought a pair of cheap $10 glasses at our first stop. As luck would have it.....those busted pretty much the day we got home. haha.
Walking the streets of Mazatlan
I love how the sun was shining on just my big belly so you know just how far it was sticking out there. :)
A yummy little Mexican Restaurant we stopped at for a snack.
I loved me some salty chips and salsa. Mmmm...mmmm.
Mexico.....
Mexico Vacation: Part I
So Dan and I have been talking for way too long about trying to get away just the two of us on a little vacation before the baby comes. January and February were just crazy months for us and we just didn't get a chance to plan anything and get it on the calendar. Well, beginning of March we were looking around at trips for the fun of it and thought how nice and easy it would be to jump on a cruise leaving out of southern California and go down the Mexican Riviera. Since money was a setback, as luck would have it, we were both able to pick up a little side work and decided to spoil ourselves and use our hard work to have a little much needed one on one time together, and so we booked a trip at pretty much the last minute! We decided on a cruise because they are so easy and stress-free to plan and nothing sounded better than just relaxing and not having to stress a lot about travel plans when I was that far along in pregnancy! We are so lucky to have the most awesome family members--Steve and Rachael & Mel and Nick-- who were so so SOOOO kind to pitch in and watch Cal for us the entire week we were gone. It was stressful thinking about leaving him for so long when I've hardly been away from him a day in his whole life, but it was such a great feeling knowing he was in such good hands and with some of his favorite people in the world. We can't thank them enough for all they did to help out!!
So we left on a Sunday and got back the following Sunday. We stopped in Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We also had 3 days at sea. It was like a dream having a getaway with just the two of us--something we haven't done since before Cal was born. Not only was it relaxing, but it just felt fun to be an adult, sleep in when we wanted, go places when we wanted, have adult conversation, chill by the pool (and eat soft serve EVERY afternoon on the pool deck :)--my personal fave), go to dinner every night together.....the list goes on. Don't get me wrong, we missed our baby boy like crazy and pretty much just laughed and looked at a few pictures of him every night (and okay, there was one day when I got pretty teary-eyed and homesick for him) but it all worked out great and I think he had as much fun as we did. I'm so glad we were able to go and make it happen just in the knick of time before the baby arrives!
Here are some pictures from the first part of our cruise.....Since I am majorly picky about my pictures I have to give a Disclaimer: Most of the pictures from our trip are just snapshots and not very great quality, but it is what it is and so please know I realize they are very much in their unperfected state! But we still had fun taking pictures and documenting nonetheless. :)
The first night on the cruise......
Technically, I was a little "too" pregnant to be on a cruise. (Oops....you aren't supposed to be over 24 weeks) But since I felt great and we seriously had a one week window of time, we slipped by at about 26/27 weeks. Probably, a little risky, but luckily everything worked out just fine. :)
We did lots of eating...of course. This meal that Dan is enjoying is not atypical of us. Salad....and LOTS of dessert. Although cruise food can get a little old after a couple days, it is still so nice to be able to eat 24 hours a day and have great service! And Dan loved himself some serious soda for all 7 days. If you can't spoil yourself on vacation, then when can you?? :)
This is a view from the ship of our first stop in Cabo San Lucas.
Dan was excited. :) So was I.
We kept things pretty low budget and simple and instead of doing any organized excursions we just made up our own fun each day when we got off the boat. In Cabo, we paid a guy a few bucks to take us out on his boat and over to a nice beach. He showed us a few of the sights first.
This arch was kind of a landmark in Cabo.
A view of our ship from the beach.
Dan built me the greatest little belly rest in the sand so I could lay on my stomach and while I vegged, he went and did a little exploring and some cliff jumping.
We got a lot of laughs every night of the towel animals the maid would leave in our room. Dan had fun trying to recreate them. I think he was just trying to re-live his teenage days doing balloon animals at the fair. :) Ask him about it. Its awesome.
So fun to just hang out together after a couple of really stressful/busy months!!
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