Hola!
The cruise trip to Mexico was fun. Personally, 7 days on the boat is just right. Anything more than that, I think all of us will be bored to death. Don’t get me wrong, the service and food were good but a little too repetitive for us.
We took the Princess cruise and I believe all cruise lines are pretty much the same. We almost had the Home Alone scene on our way to the airport. If you haven’t watch Home Alone before, rent the video and watch the scene where the family members were frantically rushing out the house, screaming away at the airport, etc. Yup, we almost did all of those..and the most embarrassing part was to hear the intercom paging for the owner of the Nvidia hats & blue handbag. Yupz, that owner was me.
Anyway, let’s have the photos do all the talking…
These pics were taken after all the commotions and we all look so happy ‘cos we had coffee. 
The check-in process took forever ‘cos our pre-registered infos didn’t show up in their system. The lady who was checking us in was quite old matured and it took her a long time type our infos. Halfway typing, her mouse konked out on her. While she went to get help, i.e. trying to flag her IT guy; Jon exchanged her mouse with the mouse from the laptop that was next hers. See? No need to flag down her IT guy, my man also know how to solve her laptop problem. Anyway, we got everything squared away but still have to wait. We were given a number tag and had to wait for our numbers to be called. Once the number was called, we would have to wait in line for another security screening before boarding the ship.
Lucky for us, we have Belle. Babies on strollers and folks who needed assistance were told to wait on another line and that line was shorter. We boarded the ship before the rest of our party.
Since Belle didn’t get a discounted rate for being an infant/toddler, we decided to use our cabin to the fullest. As you can see, we have a double bed but we told our steward to pull down an extra bed (from the ceiling). That way, daddy slept on top and Belle slept with me on the double bed.
We were greeted by our steward, Rolan, outside our statesroom. He happened to be there and welcomed us. There was also a plate of cookies to welcome us. I was starving by that time and gulped down 2 cookies..hehe.
We were really starving when all of us got onto the ship. Every passenger we met on the elevator was telling us how hungry they were and some of them didn’t even have breakfast. We decided to meet up with my folks, in-laws and sister at Deck 14 for some grubs. They were so many people at the bbq pit. Everyone was in line for the burgers, hotdogs, sodas…we were like a bunch of hungry cows.
After lunch all the passengers were asked to be in our statesroom to get ready for the mandatory emergency drill. Again, we were lucky to have Belle with us. We didn’t have to stand with the rest of the passengers in the lounge rooms. We were told to sit comfortably in their computer room. Belle had so much fun pounding on the keyboard and moving the mouse. She even let us zip her up in the life jacket!
After we had our safety drill, we went back to our statesroom. Our room has a window and the view wasn’t too bad despite having the lifeboat obstructing part of the view. Belle the monkey queen was in action again…
Belle doing her “ugly face” impersonation.
Here are some photos of the cruise ship Diamond Princess. Jon took this while I was napping with Belle.
People were so anxious to dip into the pool. Look at the crowd (upper left pic)! It was really people mountain people sea, ????!
to be continued…
Ok ok, looks aren’t THAT important but if you live around this area, my hubby can pass as a lengjai.
