Every night housekeeping would come and turn down the beds and fold our towels into animals (we got a monkey, frog, elephant and a seal). Our room had two portholes to see outside.
On Tuesday we went to Catalina Island. To get to the island we had to take tender boats from the cruise ship to the dock. My parents and my brother hung out around the town for a while and Dimitri and I decided to rent some bikes and explore. They gave us a map of the town and we decided to head up the canyon and go to the botanical gardens first. We almost got past the golf course when the chain on my bike fell off. Dimitri tried to fix it but we ended up having to go back to the bike shop and get another bike : ( Luckily it was all downhill so we just coasted down.
After we got the second bike we decided to head in a different direction and go look at the old casino and see the beach. After the beach we returned our bikes and just walked around the town for a little while and then returned to the ship.
On Wednesday we arrived in Ensenada and went to the beach. It was nice in the morning when we got there, but it got overcast and cooled off a little later so we didn't get in the water. We got some Mexican food from the resort we were ate and played cribbage with my brother and dad. There were coconut and fruit stands on the beach and a lot of people trying to sell us dresses, bracelets, hats, etc.
When we got back to the boat Dimitri and I tried to take some pictures of the city, but it was too dark and they didn't turn out.
Thursday was spent entirely on the boat. We slept in, played mini golf, sat in the hot tub, and watched the dolphins and a shark over the side of the boat. Thursday night Dimitri wasn't feeling so great so we went to lay down. He started throwing up around 11 o'clock. I tried to call the infirmary around 3 am but they didn't answer. Finally at 6 we were able to go to the infirmary with my mom and she told the guy what to give Dimitri (she's a nurse). He FINALLY stopped puking around 6 and we left the boat at 7 even though we were supposed to wait until 8:30. Dimitri was still feeling really sick so my parents got us an earlier flight home.
We think he got food poisoning because my mom got sick around 1 that night and my dad started getting sick at the airport on the way home. Somehow my brother and I avoided the food poisoning.
