{"id":11489,"date":"2016-12-07T16:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=11489"},"modified":"2016-12-31T07:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T12:18:12","slug":"los-angeles-to-puerto-vallarta-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=11489","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Dec. 6 and Wednesday Dec. 7, 2016 – Two days at sea<\/span><\/p>\n

The Island Princess continued overnight in a south-easterly direction and passed along the US\/Mexican border. \u00a0The sky was mostly cloudy all day with a light breeze and 63 degrees. \u00a0The ship’s clocks were advanced one hour. \u00a0I felt the movement of the ship when I awoke about seven o’clock. \u00a0I didn’t feel well so I rested, took a hot shower, put on an ear patch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We went out to explore the ship and had breakfast in the Horizon Court. \u00a0The day’s activities were listed on a self-contained wifi network so we could easily find interesting events. \u00a0We explored all the restaurants and listened to several presentations. One was Digital Photography and another was an Art History talk.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zumba\u00a0<\/em>on the deck near the pool:\"dsc_8614\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Fruit carving demonstration in the impressive Atrium:\"dsc_8615\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Instruction on how to play Roulette in the Casino:\"dsc_8627\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We walked around the Promenade Deck once. \u00a03.2 times around equals one mile according to a sign. \u00a0\"dsc_8649\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We had pizza for lunch in Sabatini’s Italian Restaurant:\"img_0377\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rested in our\u00a0comfortable sitting area in the stateroom with an outdoor balcony:\"dsc_8634\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Classical music performed by the Romantica String Quartet:\"dsc_8676\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It was “Formal Night” so we dressed for dinner and proceeded to the Bordeaux Dining Room. \u00a0We shared a table with two other couples: April & Rick from Phoenix, Arizona and Cav & “Fish” from Red Wing, Minnesota. \u00a0Rick worked for Intel, Fish was a truck driver, Cav had recently retired from “the phone company and they all rode motorcycles! \u00a0It’s a different life out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I<\/span><\/span>\u00a0had a tasty dinner of soup, shrimp, and dessert. \u00a0It was a fun night!! \u00a0Much more fun than expected!<\/span><\/p>\n

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After a beautiful sunset Tuesday evening, the weather improved on Wednesday. \u00a0The ship’s clocks were advanced another hour as the ship continued southeast along the Baja California (Mexico) coast.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunny skies and a northerly “fresh breeze” on Wednesday:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’m beginning to get my ‘sea legs’ but with two time changes, I didn’t know what time it really was. \u00a0Jeff’s phone conked out so we went to the Internet Cafe to try to fix it. \u00a0The young expert said it couldn’t be fixed until we got to port. \u00a0He suggested we find a bar on land with free wifi, and use that to log in and fix the phone. \u00a0Poor Jeff.<\/span><\/p>\n

We found a coffee bar on the first floor of the Atrium which had good coffee. \u00a0Our main activity of the day was a “Fine Art Auction.” \u00a0It was a total scam but kept us entertained for several hours. \u00a0We relaxed on soft green lounge chairs by the Lotus Pool and had a casual dinner at the Horizon Court buffet. \u00a0Tomorrow we land in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and go ashore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Dec. 6 and Wednesday Dec. 7, 2016 – Two days at sea The Island Princess continued overnight in a south-easterly direction and passed along the US\/Mexican border. \u00a0The sky was mostly cloudy all day with a light breeze and 63 degrees. \u00a0The ship’s clocks were advanced one hour. \u00a0I felt the movement of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-america","category-cruising","category-western-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}