Cruise to Cabo San Lucus AKA The Murder Cruise

Dinner first night of the cruise

Towel monkey left by cabin steward

Me & Mom with Cabo in background

Waterslide

Arielle & Toby with handmade "name" bracelets (nothing screams "I'm a tourist" like these!)

Guy making their bracelets on the beach

Arielle & I swimming in Cabo. The ship wasn't actually this close to us, but looks really close in the pic

Lots of pelicans & old little boats at the marina

Elation anchored in Cabo

Getting feet wet on first day in Cabo

View of Lover's Beach from Buccaneer Queen

Dad & Mom having fun on Buccaneer Queen

Jim being made a fool of on Buccaneer Queen- good times :)

Pulling up to Buccaneer Queen

Water taxi over to Buccaneer Queen

Ditto

Galoon came along and made some great new friends

The family on "Elegant Night"

Waiting for the show to start

Toby & Jim looking so "elegant" It cracked us up that was the name of the semi-formal night..."elegant night" Probably 'cause our little family is anything but...

Getting dolled up

Runner up for "hairiest chest" contest. Yes..there was some good ol' fashioned white trash fun aboard

No, Toby isn't drunk. We loved lunches like this, private tables with ocean view & gourmet food!

Woke up in hotel in San Diego day we were supposed to board the ship to THIS! A flat tire. The guys were awesome, had it changed in no time!

Bill & Dotti started a WONDERFUL new tradition this year...taking each of their children's families on a cruise!! We got to go first (benefits of being eldest I guess...) We took the Carnival Elation for 5 days from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. We were in Cabo 2 days. This was Jim & my 3rd cruise, 1st for the kids. I dare say it was our best cruise yet! AFTER we dealt with the flat tire we woke up to on the morning of the cruise! LOL...First off its just fun to be with my parents 'cause they are party animals. Mom was the big $800 Bingo winner on the boat- so fun! So it went something like this...the first day we left San Diego at 4pm and sailed all night..this was "get our feet wet night" kids checked out camp carnival & we had a gourmet dinner & great show. Sunday was at sea all day & the weather was perfect!! This day involved a lot of laying out and lounging by the pool. Monday was CABO! We booked a fun boat/snorkel cruise on the Buccaneer Queen Pirate ship. We had a great time and saw a few varieties of fish & even rays & eels. They made Jim get on stage and dance like a monkey & chicken...anyone who can get Jim to do that is amazing in my book! Tuesday was a free day in Cabo for us. We took a water taxi to a quiet part of the beach - swam & laid out. The water was PERFECT, I could have stayed there for days. Back on the ship that night we were in the karaoke lounge (Arielle actually did Karaoke!!) and that's when we heard "the code". They came over the loudspeaker and announced "code graystar"or something like that. We figured it was serious. We heard later from a family at our table that an older woman on their floor had passed away. However, we also heard from them that a security guard was posted at the cabin door at all times and we started seeing more security walking around the ship Wed. When we got off the boat Thurs. am we found out that a man murdered his wife in their cabin on Tues. night- YIKES!! The guy spent the rest of the trip in jail onboard...luckily Carnival was very professional as far as we were concerned..they kept it so lowkey and the fun carried on...Creepy though, huh?!