Spring Break 2009

As everyone knows my children get a WONDERFUL, and I really mean that, two weeks off of school. The first week we didn't do to much, just relaxed, slept in and hung out. The second week we went on a 4 night 5 day Cruise. This one was a little bit different than our others as we had 12 ppl all together. Jeff, Carol, Josh, Cristal, Aundrea, Zac, Tara, Bubba, Maylinn, Maggie, Emily and Riley. Whew! You never got to much rest, cuz if one person didn't wanna do something, another one would. I honestly needed a vaca from it. I came home soooo tired. It was a lot of fun.

We left Saturday, March 14 and heading out in 2 cars to San Diego. I drove the Yukon with 7 of us and Jeff drove his truck with the rest. We went to the beach when we arrived. It was Emilys first trip ever to a beach.

On Sunday we boarded the ship. There was a baby whale, Diego, who was lost in the harbour. As we were leaving you could see it blow water and his tail smack the water. Way to cool.

The next day, March 16th we got off the boat at Catalina Island. We did the Submarine, I think I got the most excited, my kids kept having to tell me "ma, shhh" or "ma, we see". I couldn't help it. They would give out fish food and the fish would surround your little window.

These photos were taken from my phone

That night on the ship was Fomal Night, I hate fomal night. I am not a get dresssed up kinda person. We did do pretty good dressing up.The Youngs

All the children who came with

Maggie and Emily being goofy.

The next day, Tuesday, March 17 we hit Mexico. At first we were a little worried about getting off the boat, but some of the kids had never been, so we figured in a big group like we had we should be ok. I thought they seemed nice this time. One time when we were there they yelled at us "fat Americans go home." The kids had a great time bargining with them. They brought back some fun souviners.

We always have to stop here to get a shirt.

I won't post the pics of Mr. Hubby tripping on a crack, going down to the ground and bouncin around on his buttocks. heheheh. This night we had a Dance Off. The kids, especially Josh, had a ton of fun.

It was Red against Blue teams and of course, our team the Red won!

The next day was a day out at sea. It was foggy the whole day. Through out the cruise we did karaoke. Josh doing his famous Dancing Queen dance as Maggie sang. We didn't have the camera on that one. Maggie would sing with everyone, but she would stand behind the speaker, one leg straight and one arm acrossed her stomach.

We arrived back in San Diego on Thursday and loaded up the vehicles and left for home.