Villa Bahia Ensenada

... but not a bad day to look out over the beach and choppy shoreline from the relative comfort of your room.

For dinner this evening, we tried another Lonely Planet restaurant, Cenaduria El Parrian. The décor was Frida-centric. The images of the famous Mexican painter were more than plentiful, even for Mexican standards. Two walls had murals, one depicting a market scene in which the women are sorting beans, crushing corn, drawing water from the ...

Crossed the Mexican border at Tijuana but didn't hang around for fear of being caught in the cross fire of their latest drug war battle. Most people have told me it's a place best avoided. So landed about 100km south of the border in Ensenada. Great seafood sold for next to nothing on street corners and pretty wild nightlife. Most people have advised me Mexico gets even better the further south you go so looks like I've a decent few weeks ahead of me.

... essentially where I think the parallels are going to stop. The ship is the same (which is great, I love the MV Explorer) and we left from the same place, but the people are different, the itinerary is different, and it is a shorter length of time. I'm sure the two won't really be comparable, as both voyages will enrich my life in different ways that I won't be able to know.

Since boarding the ship we have had a lot of orientation stuff to go through along with meeting all kinds ...

First sea day was spent reading, Internet checks, trivia, golf chip, pool olympics, Bingo and Celebrity Showtime. Second sea day was spent reading, lecture on star navigation, nap and Spotlight Show. Third sea day was spent reading, trivia, scrapheap wars, talent show and comedy. Fourth sea day was spent reading, Ukulele lessons ...

... The pictures of my 5 day stint in San Diego are in the last massive photo entry by Chelise. Finally, I thought I would wait to put up this entry until I had all the pictures together, well that day will never come because I just lost my one gig memory card that was loaded with pictures that I have not backed up, so this entry sadly is pictureless until I get some from Dave. By that time no one will care!

We finally booked our tickets to Thailand! I hate to sound like a commercial but wow... I love CitiCard's Premier Pass! Ori and I just booked over $4,000 worth of tickets during the peek season to Thailand and paid nothing! It was incredible! I will go 1 week earlier than him to prepare the family... just kidding! They will love him! The excitement begins...

... razsvetljenje ... treba je dat salter v P (parking pozicijo). Avto je definitivno prevec pameten (ne mors ga vzgat, ce je v rikvercu, ce stojis na klacnu sam dodaja gas, da ne lezes nazaj, skos neki piska kako cesa nimas, nisi naredu ... muska dela dokler ne gres iz avta ... In pol v San Diego via Huntington Beach (dude! sweet! btw. Paul Walkerja nismo srecal ). Najprej je itak trajal miljon casa, da sva se odcijazla iz LAja, ker je bil ITAK petek in ITAK je ...

... there! How amazing is that , to run into some guy you met a year ago on vacation, on your next vacation!! They were on their way to the airport in a couple of hours so we said goodbye and walked in opposite directions. Kate and i get to talking, I thought he was cute, she thought his friend was cute! And we look at eachother like 'what should we do??" So we ruuuun down the street looking frantically for the boys, but sadly, never found them.! :( Such is fate.

... was moving in with us for the remainder of our stay. Lucky girls got the showered version of us. They oohed and ahhed at the fabulous condo (as did we and everyone else who came by). Sze and I went grocery shopping at Star Market on S. Kihei Road (note: everything that I give the street location of is S. Kihei Road). We bought a couple of pineapples ...