January 2010

We had an exciting January…hope yours was great too!  We went on a cruise aboard Carnival’s Spirit ship. What a blast!  Mike sister, Pat and his brother and his wife, Chuck and Eva and also great friends from Bend, Tom and Vanessa were all on the ship.  We left San Diego and headed south.

First stop 3 days later was Acapulco. A massive town of over 2 million people.

We couldn’t miss the cliff divers. Amazing. They dive from 185 feet into a very narrow channel of ocean water.

The Acapulco harbor is beautiful.

Next stop was Zihautanejo and Ixtapa.   Zihautanejo is a beautiful small town (about 120,000 people) with a wonderful charm. Ixtapa (only 7 miles away) is a resort town…..beautiful beaches.

We did some shopping in an area with clean streets and friendly people.

Our final port was Manzanillo..(my favorite!)    A beautiful clean town where life seemed to be simple.

We went on a tour out into the banana plantations….a tremendous amount of work. I think of those workers every time I buy a banana! Our cruise was 8 days….the remainder of the cruise we spent on the ship. We had a wonderful time!

I was lucky to be able to go to the “Road to California” Quilt show over in Ontario, California. It was fantastic. I’m still quilting but I don’t have the talent to make the amazing quilts displayed. Wow!