Mazatlan

Me in Mazatlan. Sarah and I wandered all morning looking for something to do. All the restaurants, pubs and stores were closed. All the hotels were deserted. Huricane Paul was on it's way!



The seas were angry


Sarah and I decided to go back to the ship and try to get in at the spa. This the view from our balcony before the storm hit.


And this is about 30 minutes later. This isn't fog its rain. I have never seen anything like it.

Cabo

Our last port was Cabo- By far our best port.

We finally fit in some beach time. We hired a little glass bottom boat to take us out.

Judy's nephew Lee, Dad and Lee's mom Venita


Pelicans! They are so cute!


A rock that is supposed to look like the Baja


It was pretty rough out there. A few times I thought we might tip, especially when our tourguide started bailing water! This is the famous Cabo rock formation that probably has a name.


Seal Lions! Sunning themselves on the rocks


Leaveing Cabo- some random shots from the ship

Right in the middle of this shot is the beach-side bar that we hung out at and caught the glass bottomed boat and the water taxi home.


The waves splashing up on Divorce beach, the other side of the rocky island was nice and calm- it was called Lover's beach



Leaving port- check out the awesome beaches. I would definately come back to Cabo

Bon Voyage!

Back in a week.

The bookshelves

These pictures sort of capture the space shortage for books I have. Double ply books. This bookshelf is in one of my closets. Luckily I have more storage space than actual living space.

Salem

Sadly I have nothing new to report. I'm studying like crazy for midterms and trying to do everything before the cruise. The only thing I've taken pics of lately is Salem.

Salem on the balcony


Salem in a box


Salem checking out the new Chinese latern Suds gave me.

She isn't as photogenic as Lexi, but she has less practice. She's been watching America's Next Top Model to learn about 'smiling with her eyes' and giving a 'fierce look'!

more stuff

Santa Claus Suds came to visit yesterday! He brought with him my new fancy Coach purse- Love it!




And I also got a matching wallet! Love it!


And I also got luggage for my trip!

It has some fancy locking mechanism where the zipper pull tabs are locked, and it has a combination type lock to undo it. Very fancy.



And this is just strange. I put my water bottle in the dishwasher and it came out smaller! Below is the normal size and the shrunken one beside it. Isn't that so strange? I think I like the smaller size better, but I'm a little scared about drinking from it.


See how much more fun my blog is now that I have camera!!! BTW it is a fuji A400

More books up for grabs

I have done a small cull of my books.
-Do you like Grisham books? I have about 8-10 paperback copies that are mostly in good condition. It's not worth it for me to store them any longer- there are around 300 copies of each for sale on Amazon- selling one of my Grisham books would be like winning the lotto. If you want them- and you don't live in Moncton (sorry Micah the postage would kill me) they are free for the taking.
Also up for grabs
- moving beyond words by gloria steinem
- about 15 VC Andrews books
- some older daniel steeles and jackie collins books that are on their last legs condition-wise
- stephen king and Clancy are next on the cull list- I have about 20 of them. if you want them
- Slow waltz in cedar bend by robert james waller- he wrote bridges of madison county- I think I have a couple more books of his that can be taken too.
-wanna learn the fine art of microwave cooking? Well if this describes you, boy do I have the cookbook for you!!
- The English Patient- apparently the book is better than the movie

-I have about 800 books for sale, and about 500 books to be given away. I might have the book that you've been searching for. I would love to getr rid of some

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am a sucker for materialism. I bought myself a digital camera.

I snapped 2 pics:
The first is Salem in her favorite hibernating place- under the covers of my bed


The second is a flower in my garden. There is some sort of flower mode that I wanted to try out. I think that the extreme flower close up is pretty good. Up until now I've had hand-me-down 35mm cameras. This picture has convinced me that a digital camera is superior.

After taking these 2 pics I tossed the camera in my bag a la Shannon -who seems to not leave the house without her camera. I went to Whitney's for a lovely Thanksgiving dinner. I brought along my webcam so sarah and ryan could join in. It was great that they got to be there. It still sometimes blows me away how much technology has changed in my short lifetime.
I completely forgot about my new digital camera until whitney was walking me to the bus stop. Here she is in her slippers, new coat and a mug full of bailey's with a splash of coffee. Directly across from Whitney are 3 cop cars- needless to say she is re-thinking the mug of alcohol and the slippers on Denman street!!!

Cruise paid for - with creative math!

This is the diamond princess. The ship that I will be on in 3 weeks!

I was telling someone my strategy for quitting smoking. My idea was to take the money that would have been spent on ciggy's and reward myself instead. I did do that for the first couple of months very happily. But after a while I forgot. I might have still spent the money, but I stopped thinking of it as a reward.

So anyways. I was doing the math. I spent about $1000 a year on cigs. October is my one year mark. add that to the $571.78 from book sales and taa daaa! Cruise is paid for! ....well .... sort of.