How can you pass up the opportunity???

How can you pass up the opportunity to go with some of your kids on a cruise??  We couldn't pass it up so once again we "signed up".  We left Blanding on Friday afternoon, March 6th.  We stayed in St. George that night and then on to Los Angeles the next morning.  We boarded the Sapphire Princess on Saturday afternoon and then we were off to Mexico! 

Of course, we began eating right away.  And then we ate & ate & ate & ate.................

We found our favorite waiters:  Allen and George.

We did plenty of "lounging around" but...........

we also tried to stay very busy and active.  The "girls" did yoga. The "guys" took a golf class.

We all took a dance class!!!

We tried to run about 2 miles a day on the deck.

Jed and I participated in a 5K run/walk....the proceeds went to cancer research.

And then the excursions.........we rode mules up a mountain in Puerto Vallarta.

And then we zip lined and rappelled back down!!!!

We just backed off of this big cliff and found ourselves in the middle of a waterfall!!  Pretty trusting?

We rode a banana boat and kayaked at Mazatlan! 

We had a lot of animal encounters!

Yes, that is a donkey on Kristi's lap!

Sorry Deco, I couldn't figure out any way to smuggle this guy onto the ship to bring him home to you:(

Can you believe we really held a jaguar??

(just for the record, Stacy is wearing a swim suit cover-up and swim suit....not a dress)

We saw sea lions at Cabo San Lucas

We also saw whales and dolphins out in the ocean (no pictures of them).

We visited "lover's beach" at Cabo.  It was beautiful!!!

We were real sad when a week had gone by and it was all over.  We had sooooo much fun but it was good to get back to Blanding!!!   Thanks Kristi and Jeremy and Stacy and Taylor for letting us tag along!!!