Puerto Vallerta

Puerto Vallarta

Wow - what a beautiful place. Our boat got to dock right on the pier - and it was so pretty today! Hot and humid, too, but luckily the skies were pretty cloudy so it didn’t feel too sunny.

After a quick trip to the buffet, we walked to the Krystal resort and I got my very first massage. $40 bucks for 70 minutes of heaven. OH. MY. GOD. Yeah. Very cool. What was really neat was that the massage was in a little cabana on the beach, just past the sand, where I could hear the waves crashing. So neat. Perla, the girl who did my massage, was amazing,

Grant hung out at the resort on the beach, meanwhile, and met me after my massage. We spent some time at the beach. The water was 79 degrees - pleasantly cool.

After the beach, we walked back to the terminal and then across a scary street to go to… Wal-Mart! Yup, Grant needed some flip flops, and I, well, wanted to see a Mexican Wal-Mart. It was funny to shop in pesos. We spent 110 pesos on a pair of flip flops, two sodas, and one of those kinder candies from Europe with the little prize inside.

Did I mention that I got a massage…???

By this point, we were hot, sticky, and tired, so we risked our lives crossing that scary street again and went back to the ship. We showered and took some pics from the promenade deck.

We had dinner in the Savoy, with the same waiter as our first night. It was Italian night. I had baked eggplant, pasta, salad with sun dried tomato vinaigrette, and pot roast. For dessert, I had a peach stuffed with almond soufflé… so delicious. Grant had prosciutto, a salad, sword fish, and tiramisu for dessert.

After dinner, we saw the illusionist show, which was pretty good. My favorite trick was when he tossed an invisible deck of cards out to someone in the audience. The kid pretended to shuffle the invisible deck and then pick an invisible card, look at the invisible card, and remember what it was. Then he put the card back in the deck and tossed it to the magician. The magician “caught” the invisible deck in an empty paper bag, within which a card deck appeared. He fanned out the cards and one card was facing backwards in the deck. He asked the kid what card he had “picked” from the invisible deck, and the kid said the 6 of hearts, so the magician turns around the backwards card and it’s the 6 of hearts. Wha???? So COOL.

After the show, we headed up to the pool deck to observe the drunks at the tropical party and partake in the tropical buffet. Don’t ask how many chocolate covered strawberries I ate.

Did I mention that I had my very first massage????