Saturday of our cruise was “in port” in Ensenada, Mexico.
Since many of our fellow cruisers were off the ship, breakfast/pool deck/etc was delightfully un-crowded.
We all got up, ate, and took our sweet time about it …
Getting off the ship, there is a little building *right* away to buy junk souvenirs. Shot glasses, magnets, sun glasses, etc. There’s also a shuttle to take you into town if you don’t want to walk …
The shuttle dropped us off in this dingy run down parking lot/alley … just a couple blocks away from this metropolitan center (sense the sarcasm):
OK. Again. This is NOT a *real* cruise. This 3-day-to-Ensenada cruise is just a 3 day party.
Ensenada is apparently only in existence to take money from American tourists. Everyone speaks English. Everyone takes U.S. dollars. Everyone is *hustling* to get your attention and get your money.
I guess I can say that I’ve been to Mexico now, but not really. I want to go to REAL Mexico … old colonial sites and broken attempts at Spanish and such.
We went to Papas & Beer and got these (extremely watered-down) margaritas …. Maria, Sarah and Kaitlin got shots too …. and Heather, Nichole and Cambria were hounded by street vendors. Ah, tourism 
We ended up back on the ship after maybe only an hour or so in port …. And I spent the afternoon reading on deck …
Lovely. Really, all I want to do is read …
Dinner Saturday night was “formal” night …. although all the girls (except me) were dressing up nice each night …
Friday night, Katie got a table-neighbor to promise to buy us all shots if she got up and danced with the waiters (that may sound crazy, but you’ll see when you go on a cruise. The wait staff in the dining room is ALWAYS entertaining us with choreography) …
So Saturday night, they delivered 16 ‘lemon drops’ (15 for us, and one for Katie’s new friend) …. Pretty sure this is limoncello and a little bit of sugar, because it tasted like gasoline.
I didn’t drink mine.
After dinner … we went to see a stand-up comedian in one of the lounges …
The bridesmaids got us all these black/pink boas to wear (I love a good diva-boa)! And we found pink feathers EVERYWHERE the next day
Like I mentioned before, there were many many more bachelorette parties on the cruise. We did boas, these girls did wigs! Super cute …
The comedian (I forget his name) was *kind of* funny … Really he was more angry at his ex-wife and made all kinds of anti-marriage jokes. Which I don’t really find funny.
But I’m happily married, so maybe it’s just me.
Um, and then, guess what I did!
That’s right! I went to bed … around midnight …. and everyone else was out til 3 or 5a again ….
But I got a good night sleep …. which is really one of my favorite things