the best way to start a cruise...

I wouldn't know. I slept six out of the first seven hours of ours! Two words, poor Dallas! I get car sick often so just to be safe I took dramamine an hour before we got on the ship. Walked around for about an hour. Went to sleep. I am sure Dallas was thinking he'd made a huge mistake by booking this vacation. No worries, I woke up in time for dinner and decided I'd try not taking any meds the next day and I was totally fine. We spent a few days at sea and a few days at a couple different ports. We loved it all. Forgive me, most all the picture are just from the port days. Nevertheless we did have a lot of fun while on the ship, comedy shows, couples games, hip hop shows, bingo, spending time at the pool, people watching, eating, watching movies on the big screen by the pool at night, meeting new people; newly weds and some who had been married 70 years, yes 7-0, and some who had been on 50+ cruises, and just hanging out.

I am sure I had more fun than Dallas did dressing up, but he sure did look good regardless! The sunset was gorgeous and the dinners were always awesome!

We spent two days in Cabo. We did take a boat tour the first day just to check out the different beaches and the rock formations, even saw a sleeping seal haha! We then spent some time at lover's beach. The second day we went to another beach, it was alot more crowded, it was more of a swim beach and had a lot of resturants. All the beaches were amazing and the water was perfect! I could have spent the entire week on those beaches!

I could not get enough of the towel animals, I loved them. I wanted to buy the "how to make towel animals" book, but that is where Dallas drew the line haha!

The next port was Puerto Vallarta. We went ziplining and it was a blast!

There was quite a few activities involved, speed boats, mountain climbing jeeps, zip lining, hiking, staged kisses, screams, repelling, falling and swimming, well maybe not swimming, more like trudging through water, still so fun!

bloopers :)

bottom line, we would totally do this again!

tuesday nights

the problem with dallas playing basketball and me staying home browsing pinterest every tuesday night is that they often look a lot like this...

dallas getting exercise

me testing out things like this

i can can

My mom was in town visiting and she found an " I Can Can" canning recipe book. So I had to test out a few! How can any one not like strawberry jam? Dallas loves jalapeno jelly so deciding which to try wasn't hard! 

am I sitting on the counter while stirring? And was I a lid short at the end because I put two lids on one jar earlier? And was my stove top, counter, and floor a jam/jelly coat of glue? Of course!  

I did not ever try the jalapeno jelly, but everyone who tried it said it was good! 

Canning was fun, messy, smelly and delicious! My house went from smelling like a strawberry patch to spicy vinegar (haha you can tell which recipe was my favorite!) My favorite part was giving it away to our families:)