Hockey and boxes

David decided to take Sean on for a little one on one hockey. I'm not sure what the final score was. Sean came running in holding the puck saying "crap." Crap is not a word he uses, I asked do you need to poop? He held the puck up and said "crap." I said, that's a puck. He said "oh, puck" and back to the game he went. Viewmont varsity hockey had their game tonight and had their first loss of the season 3 to 6. Bummer. They know how Canada is going to feel. Good news is it's best of 5 and the next game is Monday.

Sean and Nate have grown we had to upgrade their box.

Hey Nate that's my toothbrush!!!

Of course there has to be a little drama in Sean's family. They moved into a new place while we were on our cruise. Apparently the landlord is wanting to up their rent after two weeks. Last Saturday Ryan and a friend were at Trolley Square and had some sort of altercation with someone who then chased them down on 6th South and hit them with his car. Ryan has a broken nose and the friend has had to have several surgeries on his leg. I told Jenniy if it's not one thing it's another.  She's been working at an assisted living center for three weeks now.

Wedding Reception

Don and I went to Steve Christensen (Alex's best friend from H.S. days) and Mia's wedding reception this evening. I had just gotten off work and we had a quick family dinner thanks to grandma cooking. I put on a jean skirt to go to the reception. (That's as dressy as I get these days.) Don had on a dress shirt and jeans. As we were leaving the reception an older gentleman in a suit held the door for us. I wish we'd had a camera for the look he gave us. He looked at Don in his jeans up then down. He didn't say a word but you could tell he didn't approve. After the door shut, I asked Don "do you know who that was?" "Mr Mac" he said. Yep, the Utah King of suits "no one buys the way we buy, no one sells the way we sell" was sizing Don up for a suit or maybe just shaking his head in disdain, not sure.

Day One

Sean is a good traveler. He was awake to pat his knees and say “BLAST OFF” when the plane took off, then he went to sleep.

We met up with Art and Char at the Long Beach airport. Art had all kind of drama leading up to the cruise. He left his birth certificate in his car at the train parking lot in Maryland. (Where there are no flights due to a blizzard) He though all was lost and his daughter Autumn found a copy of his birth certificate. Autumn’s husband Ian flew from N.C. to LAX and met Art in the parking lot and the cruise terminal with his birth certificate. We were in line to board when he got there. Way to go Ian. Art also found out that on Saturday that he passed his RN board which is an excellent thing.

Cruise pictures on the ship

Sean used to be really good about saying CHEESE and smiling for pictures but now he likes to make his "Scawey Sean face" Oh well, what can you do?

Getting in touch with his heritage! Good thing we had a passport or they might have kept him.

Day Two

Room Service! Sean ate so much fruit. He really got into the cruise and eat routine.

 Swimming was fun. The first day at sea was a little cool. The out door area had a glass roof that could be closed and the pool was heated.

More food, pizza.

Lobster for dinner. Gotta love that.

mmm, sushi! The only two foods we can find that Sean doesn't like are kiwi and pineapple.

Miniature golf on the deck, in the wind.

I was less than impressed with “Camp Carnival”. Carnival’s daycare/child program. All the information I read on the internet said it wasn’t really daycare but a program for families. We took Sean there the first day and he did not want to stay alone. They begrudgingly let us come in with him. There were three workers. One was face painting little girls and the other two were doing paper work. A little baby (he had to have been two but he looked 18-months) was sitting up falling over asleep. It was so sad to watch. Three boys were clubbing each other with guitars. Finally, I couldn’t take the falling over asleep baby and told the worker to put him to bed. She said when she touched him he screamed but she did lie him down. He then did scream and scream. All the parents have cell phones provided by the “day care” but she didn’t call his parents. She just let him scream. They told us we couldn’t stay with Sean so we took him and left. Don tried to take him back once more so he and Sean could play with the toys but they told him he couldn’t stay so Sean didn’t play. I was really disappointed. The older kids particularly the girls looked like they were having fun but it was not a program for 2-year-olds.

Alex and Loreal

Art and Char

Day Three

Puerto Vallarta Our first stop was Puerto Vallarta. The weather was gorgeous. We took a 90 minute taxi ride to the botanical gardens. On the way up the mountain I asked the driver if most people in Puerto Vallarta were poor or middle class. He said they were middle class and pointed to the buildings and told me how all these people were successful business people who owned their building and lived above them. It was sad. Most of the buildings had tarps for roofs. Certainly a different view of middle class than the U.S.

First Sean wanted his shoes off, then his pants, then his shirt, next thing you know the baby was naked in the river. The only thing that remained were his sunglasses. When you're cool you're cool!

We went to a restaurant at the gardens. It was an awesome restaurant with a great view. When we walked in I thought “how authentic” then I remembered I was in Mexico. Duh!

We got Sean a little guitar. He was standing in front of the boat with no pants (they got wet in the river) strumming his guitar. If he had a cup people would have thrown pesos in it. (He has a crayon box at home that he calls his "guitar case". When we got home I found all his crayons and color books in the trash and he was trying to fit his guitar in the case to be like David.)

Puerto Vallarta Walmart. If it hadn't been for the fact that the prices were in pesos I could has sworn we were in West Valley.

You can't have cruise pictues without the standard towel animal snap shots! Sean actually was more interested in the chocolate on the pillows next to the towel animals. And of course removing their eyes.

Day Four

Mazatlan

We went to the aquarium. Sean fell asleep in the taxi. He woke up in time for shark show and then we went to a seal show. It was fun. The seal trainer was making fun of us because we didn’t speak Spanish. How do I know that? Because he pointed to us in the crowd and asked “You speak Espanol?” We said “no” he kept talking and the crowd laughed. Hmm, hope it was a good one. He then wanted us to kiss the seal. Sean wouldn’t do it. There were tons of kids in the audience who wanted to and did. There was a school there called “John F Kennedy” I asked the teacher why their school was named after an American president but she didn’t know.

There were awesome rubber trees all around. One of them had a sign that said banos. I thought that was peculiar. Were you supposed to go to the bathroom in the tree. I took Sean's picture and then said "let's go". He said, "no, I'm pooping!" Gee, I didn't know Sean could read in Spanish.

Whale bones. Sean called them dinosaur bones. We saw crocodiles, which Sean called scarey dinosaurs. Don't tell him dinosaurs are extinct because he won't believe you. 

Oh look, a little dinosaur is sitting on the bench.

They had this cool aviary. You walked in and there were birds all over. Birds pooping, squaking. It was fun but a little "scarey" because the birds were loud.

We went to a road side taco stand. Sean had the longest conversation with a little girl there. Didn't matter that they weren't speaking the same language.

Day Five

Water Taxi to the beach.

A little siesta on the beach

The beach! It was beautiful. Temperature was in the 80’s.

Back on the boat eating again!