Following the Barkers

Following the Barkers

Friday, November 20, 2015

Thursday November 19, 2015 At Sea Between Ensenada, MX and Los Angeles, CA




Carnival Inspiration also in port
We were in port at Ensenada when we woke up.  There was a haze over much of the southern part of the city.  We ordered our coffee and breakfast from room service.  We lingered over our coffee.

Welcome to Ensenada
Gerri decided to stay on board and hang out around the pool area.  I went ashore to hunt a cache.  The closest cache was .3 mile away an earthcache, like I said before any port in a storm.  In this case any cache will do.  After I got the information required for the earthcache, I decided to walk the .2 miles to the next closest traditional cache.  I got near the cache and found it was very crowded.  There was a display and bleachers set up for an off road race.  There were people and vehicles everywhere.  GZ was in the crowd, so I didn’t even try for the cache.



Looking aft
I met Gerri in the pool area.  She had already eaten a pizza slice.  She got me two slices, one plain cheese and one Mexican style.  The jalapenos on the Mexican pizza were so hot I was glad to have the cheese pizza to go with them.  Gerri went up to the sun deck, 15, and I walked around the ship hoping to get some pictures. I didn’t have much luck.  The haze, probably dust from the races, had dissipated but the sun direction was wrong for good pictures of the city.
City view, kinda south

City view with marina


We returned to our cabin and got cleaned up before going to the Skywalker Lounge for the daily hors d’oeuvres.  The feature today was one of my favorites, herb marinated goat cheese with rosemary flatbread.  They also had tomato bruschetta.

We went the Vista Lounge and saw a floor show, Words and music.  When we have gone to these shows in the Vista Lounge we have sat at some table near the entrance.  That puts us pretty far back from the performers but has the added attraction of watching other people sitting in the area shooing away late comers who block the view of the stage.

We had dinner at our regular time.  Our table was full again.  Gerri and I had the mussels as an entrée.  They weren’t served in a broth like we are used to.  It wasn’t a large portion but since we had pizza earlier and then hors d’oeuvres we were satisfied.  Of course we had dessert, me New York Cheese cake and Gerri Apple Pie with vanilla ice cream.

After dinner we went to the Princess Theater and watched a juggling act by David Aiken.  When we got to our cabin we had mail that informed us that when we arrive in LA we have to go through customs and re board the ship.  There went our plans of sleeping in.

While we were in the Skywalker for hors d’oeuvres the ship sailed out of the harbor.  Goodbye Ensenada, next stop LA and our next cruise.  The 4 day cruise didn’t allow time for some of the activities we are used to.  Like the captain’s meeting with the Captain’s Circle members and our shout out for other geocachers.  We will soon see what a 5 day cruise entails.







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