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by William J Lund
My Wife is At It Again – This Time a Cruise to Acapulco
It started out as a simple week long cruise to Alaska. My
wife and I are avid cruisers…well my wife is and she drags me along. It may
appear as though I am enjoying myself, but really I just want to get back to
work. My wife lets me work pretty much all the time, so I want her to enjoy the
cruise. For her to enjoy the cruise she has to think I am having fun too, so
that’s why I pretend to enjoy myself.
Anyway, back to the Alaskan cruise…some people we met on a
cruise were going to go, and so we were going to go along as well. It’s always
fun to cruise with people you’ve met before…assuming you like them of course. A
couple of cruises back we went on a cruise to the Caribbean where a large number
of people had been yakking at each other on the Cruise Critics message board for
almost a year. People all going on the Caribbean cruise of course.
It turned out
to be a fantastic cruise. We had so much fun with this huge group of people.
We referred to it as 62 best friends meeting for the first time. We had some
group party’s and a couple of blow-up dolls as mascots and we even had a Pirate
theme. It made the whole cruise far more fun. Well for Kathy it was a lot of
fun, I was just pretending of course. There are a lot of pictures of the
cruise, the group, and even the mascots at my cruisesrfun website.
From Alaskan cruise to Acapulco cruise
But I digress…back to the Alaskan cruise. Well, it turned
out that a whole bunch of those folks that went on that Caribbean cruise decided
to do another cruise together, this time to Acapulco Mexico. The next thing I
knew our Alaskan cruise had become our Acapulco cruise. I much prefer hot
weather to warm and warm to cold, so I had not been looking forward to the
Alaskan cruise, but a cruise to sunny Mexico would be another story. Er uh at
least it would be easier to pretend to enjoy the cruise.
One of the nifty things about this cruise is it stops at
Zihuatanejo, which is where my step son and his wife got married on the beach.
Actually, the beach was called La Playa Ropa, and the wedding was at a
restaurant called La Perla. Well…we thought why not invite our son and his wife
and his sister and her husband to go along too. They are great fun and our
son’s wife is Mexican and speaks fluent Spanish…it makes her very handy when in
Mexico.
Halloween on the Carnival Spirit in Mexico
This cruise to Acapulco is at the end of October. We will
be on the ship for Halloween. You know what that means. It means that there will
be a mandatory costume party. At least it will be mandatory for anyone married
to my wife. Jeeze. UPS has been making stops at my house several times a week
lately bringing things like big fancy ear rings and costumes, and dresses…lots
of dresses.
My wife Kathy really likes to dress up on these cruises. I pretend
I don’t mind donning my tuxedo a couple of times each cruise. Apparently I will
also be getting dressed up as a Mexican Bandito…with bandoliers holding shot
glasses instead of bullets, and holsters that hold tequila bottles. Kathy is
going to go as “Miss Piggy” dressed as “Big Bird”. Doesn’t make sense to me
either, but check out our website in early November to see for yourself.
Carnival Cruise Lines Critique
This cruise is aboard the Carnival Spirit, and we have
never cruised on Carnival. The last cruise I was on was aboard the HAL
Oosterdam, a ship we’ve traveled on twice. On that cruise I had my iphone, and
I could check my email and visit my favorite websites from almost anywhere on
the ship. I hope that’s the case with the Spirit. As usual I will do a cruise
review critique and post it on cruisesrfun.
Kathy has been in near constant communication with one of
that group of 64, Judy, who happens to be a Travel agent. So now we’ve been
moved around, up graded and God knows what else, but we apparently have the
perfect state room…with a wrap-around balcony and plenty of room for that
cocktail party. On this cruise our group will be around 20 people, and I know
Kathy and two of her friends are planning at least one cocktail party for the
entire group. A lot of the original group of 64 still chat on the boards, and
of course this upcoming cruise has a message board at cruise critics site, and
there is daily chatting. I never get involved in that stuff; I leave it all to
Kathy.
The cruise begins in San Diego, and we will be staying
overnight in the same hotel as the last time we cruised. Kathy has booked us a
room where we can stand on the balcony and watch the ship dock early in the
morning. Last time it was at like 5:00 a.m. or something…I don’t really
understand the attraction., but I am pretty sure that at some un-Godly hour I’ll
be up watch the ship pull up to the dock.
We usually build web pages about our cruise as we go, and
upload them to the CruisesRfun website from the ship. This time we will be
doing the same thing. I have a new digital camera that takes nice movies, and I
would really like to begin incorporating videos into my website. If we can
upload at a reasonable speed I’ll certainly have some cool videos posted on the
site before the end of the cruise. If I am really lucky I’ll be able to
get some really embarrassing footage of my children for all of their friends to
view.