Cruise to Cabo Day 3: Cabo

 Sunday September 4, 2022

The captain had told us the day before that the ship would have to slow down due to the big swells created by the tropical depression that had just hit the coast. We woke up to discover that we were about an hour behind schedule for our arrival to Cabo San Lucas. We got in line for another brunch in the main dining room that morning while Erik stood in line to get tickets to tender off the ship. The kids now knew to ask the waiter for chocolate frosted donuts.

Ian loved those chocolate pancakes! I think he ordered them just about every morning.

My omelet. It was good but slightly overcooked.

We still had time to kill after breakfast, so we spent some more time wandering around the ship waiting to drop anchor. The tender boats approached our ship and connected us to a floating dock. We were able to watch the entire time from our balcony. Unfortunately, we had to wait another hour for the guests with shore excursions to take their tenders to the marina. Finally, it was our turn for a rocking, 15-minute boat ride to Cabo.

Holding on tight while tendering to Cabo

Erik booked a private, 3-hour sailboat tour for us in Cabo. Unfortunately, the tour was scheduled to start at 1pm, but we didn't get there until about 2:30pm. They still took us out to see the arch and to swim by a beach. We couldn't actually go to a beach because the sailboat couldn't get very close to the shallow water. The photographer took a bunch of pictures of us and talked with us every chance he got (clever sales technique). While we were swimming, the crew made us some cheese quesadillas served with fresh pico de gallo and guacamole. We got suckered into buying the pictures. His original price was $200, but he gave us a screamin' hot deal (that was sarcastic) of $100. If he had just a bit more talent as a photographer, it may have been worth it, but a lot of the pictures were pretty bad. Fortunately, there were a couple decent ones:

Sea lions soakin' up the sun

A couple of good ones of the kids, although it couldn't have hurt the photographer to ask them to look and smile, there were too many that were just garbage. I posted only the best here.

It looked like Grandma wanted to push Grandpa overboard, so we were surprised when she kissed him instead.

Cute pic of Elisa, but not really frameable.

A nice picture of Grandma

Gabe loved playing on the floating pad.

Erik did a flip into the water!

In the water. We didn't swim that long. We had to wear the life vests. The water was a good temperature. The kids liked playing on the mat. I thought we would stay longer than we did.

A view of our ship from the boat

We wanted to walk around Cabo after our sailboat tour, so we braved the walkways of the marina only to be accosted by people trying to convince us to buy tours, souvenirs, prescription medications, and hair braids. Elisa got suckered into hair braiding with some lady who offered to do it for $30. I didn't have $30 cash, only $15, but she took what I had and got to work. She was a fast braider and did a good job, I'm still trying to figure out how she weaved in the purple hair so well. I think it was worth $15, but $30 is kinda steep for that. While I sat with Elisa during her hair braiding, everyone else took shelter inside a gift shop where they weren't badgered quite as much. We bought a few small souvenirs, which the owner kept offering lower prices for when we said we didn't want it. Even though the ship would stay anchored in Cabo for 24 hours, we decided that we had seen enough and made our way back. Afterall, there wasn't too much to do in Cabo, especially for the kids. 

Wandering around Cabo

Getting her hurr did.

Being silly on the tender on the way back to the ship

Our tender arrived back at the ship just in time for us to change clothes and head to dinner. This was probably our least favorite dinner, which is understandable since there were maybe 5 other tables in the entire dining room with people eating. Our waiter recommended the Mississippi Mud Pie for dessert; that's all I remember.

I ordered the mushroom risotto. It was okay; I didn't finish it all. It was more of a side dish than an entree. 

My cheese appetizer plate. Not bad. Not amazing, but a few steps up from that "charcuterie" plate I had for breakfast the day before. 

Mud pie for dessert. It was pretty good.

After dinner, we went back to our stateroom to get ready for the evening show. Erik had walked out to the helicopter pad and offered to take Elisa and his parents there. We watched them on the bridge camera channel. The show was the "headliner" tribute to Whitney Houston. The singer did a really good job singing songs like "Saving all my love for you," "Greatest love of all," "I wanna dance with somebody," and "I will always love you." She did a few songs that I have never heard before, which was awkward when she asked the audience to sing along. Overall, it was a good show, but it seemed like she did more talking than singing.

We found a towel-frog in our beds when we got back from dinner.

They're on TV! On the circle, Erik and Elisa are at 12 o'clock, and grandpa is at 3:30.

Erik took a panoramic view of Land's End, the arch, lovers' beach, the sunset, and Cabo.