Mexican Riviera Cruise Day 5

Day 5: March 18th, 2009 - Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

We woke up early this morning – 7:00 a.m. and watched the ship pull into port. Jim left early to meet up with Paul and Grandpa. They were doing a mountain bike tour. Jim borrowed Sadie’s camera for the day and shortly after he left the cabin I realized that he hadn’t put the battery back in the camera. Sadie and I ran up to the Mermaid Grill and luckily found him still eating breakfast and gave him the battery. We went back down to our cabin and finished getting ready and then met Jen, Hailey, Drew, and Mimi in the Mermaid Grill for breakfast. We got off the boat and got pictures with a sad looking donkey. While we waited for our tour to begin (we booked the sea life water park with dolphin encounter) we walked through a little walkway with colorful parrots and got pictures of everyone with the parrots. Finally our tour got started and we all piled onto a nice bus and drove for about 20 minutes. We got to the sea life park at about noon and had lunch – hot dogs, pizza, and fries. After that we saw a dolphin show and then got ready to get in the water with the dolphins. We waited in the small pool for about 15 minutes but the dolphin (Belle) didn’t want to go into that pool so we all went into the big pool (she didn’t want to come to us so we went to her). We all got to pet her as she swam by and got to shake “fins” with her and get a kiss. It was so amazing to be up close and personal with a dolphin! We got to play and swim with her as well – we even had a water fight (which she won!). After the encounter we got to play on the water slides for a while and then shop in the gift shop before getting back on the bus. We were worn out! Meanwhile the boys found a shop to rent bikes from and had a wonderful ride. We all met back on the ship and rested in our rooms for a little while. We all went to dinner and celebrated Drew’s third birthday complete with cake, gifts, and Cars tattoos! After dinner we walked around for a little bit and called it an early night. Gallery.