Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Autumn Cruise Vacation Part 2: Cruise Day 2 and 3

Tuesday was the second day of the cruise—the fun day at sea. Honestly, I don’t remember what we did… just relaxed. Did some mini golf… tried to hop in a hot tub but they were always full. We ate a lot… slept in… just RELAXED, which was so nice! We found out a little bit more about our dinner friends Ryan and Nicole—Both are 21, from Riverside CA, and Ryan is studying religious theology to become a pastor or minister or something like that… which we thought was very interesting. :) Tuesday night was our formal dinner night so we were all dressed up and took some pictures with the photographers on the boat, but we didn’t really like any of them, which is too bad.
Wednesday was our day in Catalina. We were hoping to go snorkeling or rent golf carts to drive around the island… and did neither. It was very overcast that day which made the water really cold so we decided not to snorkel. To rent the golf carts, you had to be 25… seriously… am I not adult enough?! So instead we decided to do a bus tour of the city and a glass bottom boat tour to see the fish. It was still a lot of fun! Our little excursions we bought on the island which saved us at least 20 bucks, so that was awesome too.
Our bus ride got started pretty rough. The breaks kept locking up because of the rain, which made for very abrupt stops. We had to stop at the Casino ,which doesn’t have gambling, but does have a movie theater and a dance hall, so that someone could come fix the breaks before we headed up into the hills. Good idea, right? We got to explore a little around the casino and such… Dustin held the cruise ship in the palm of his hand :) It was a nice tour of the whole city of Avalon, so that was fun. We had some time to kill before our glass bottom boat tour so we did a little shopping, I got a new jacket that is nice and big and cozy. The glass bottom boat tour was a lot of fun. We got to see lots of fishies and didn’t have to get wet or cold! After the boat tour we had to go get ice cream at Big Olafs! Very yummy. Then we got back on our boat and relaxed again. We decided that we’d give Ryan and Nicole a Book of Mormon that night if they weren’t going to be at dinner Thursday night… since he’s studying religious theology and all… But they said that they would be at dinner Thursday so we held off for another night.


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