Cruise to Mexico

For our first anniversary we took a cruise to Cabo San Lucas Mexico, leaving from San Diego and stopping in Ensenada. We sailed on the Royal Caribbean ship Radiance of the Seas. This was Lauren's first cruise she could remember. I had been on one when I was 5 but can't remember much. I definitely didn't remember how HUGE the ship was and how it's basically a Vegas hotel on water (which by the way, we LOVE vegas!). We were more impressed with the ship than any of the ports. We weren't off the ship for more than 2 hours at each stop because there really isn't much to see and you can only be hassled so much to buy a turtle ceramic necklace! Other than the stops we will definitely be cruising again, we had a blast!!

Our ship from the parking lot in San Diego!

Phil playing miniature golf on our ship... he won... pretty sure he cheated though :)

The rock climbing wall on the ship. We tried waiting a few times but the lines were always sooo long! So we worked out at the gym instead!

Me outside the casino, where we spent most of our time.

First stop - Ensenada! We had to pose with the... chili pepper? Not really sure :)

Second stop was CABO! Our first stop was at the wild animal booth. We had a choice to hold the baby lion or Tiger. Phil chose the lion. See the Tiger below playing with one of the workers.

At the docks in Cabo.

Phil hanging out in the pool on the ship after our hour trip into Cabo :)

The Newlywed Game!

Phil and I were chosen to be on the Newlywed Game Show! We went to the taping last night and it was an experience! When we got there at 2:30 we were sent immediately to our green room to fill out a bunch of paperwork and then to just wait.... and wait and wait.....

We took our "photobooth" pictures and got our make-up done. Yes, Phil got his make-up done too :) After the make-up we were sent back to our green room to wait and just hang out. We weren't allowed to bring ANYTHING. No books, phones, cards, Ipod... nothing! So it got boring pretty quickly, until the fire alarm went off in the building. We were all escorted outside and then brought back in. Then we had to go back outside for the fire department to check the building.

We went back to hang out in our rooms a little longer... and around 6:00 we had our briefing. They basically tell you all of the words you can't say, and that if you tell anyone the outcome of the show you will be fined. All that said we had a great time. We were able to have friends in the audience so that was also fun! Here's some pictures Sarah (Phil's sister) shot of us on stage.

Who won? Tune in!!These were our Photobooth shots that were behind us through the show

Just a little touch-up :)