Nelson Family: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (cont.)

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (cont.)

Thursday, February 4, 2010: This is where the Catamaran anchored at the Majahuitas island that we went snorkeling and spent the day at. As I said in my previous post, this is a very small, very private island so we were the only ones there that day. Once the Catamaran dropped anchor, we all put on our life jackets and our snorkel gear and we jumped off into the water.

I must say that this time I was much more prepared and knew better what to expect with snorkeling than when we went in Aruba in 2007, which was my first time snorkeling ever. Getting the breathing down with the gear is a little tricky, but this time I was able to get it pretty quickly and had no trouble! I did well in Aruba, too, but I did have a little bit of a harder time getting used to the gear there. :)

More pictures of the Majahuitas private island.

Obviously, I didn't take any pictures on the island or while we were snorkeling because we had to swim the rest of the way in to the beach. Our camera is not waterproof and there was no way to carry the camera with me without getting it wet and destroying it. I could have bought a waterproof disposable camera, but I found that when I did that in Aruba the pictures just didn't turn out well enough for me to feel like doing it again this time. Anyway, we had to leave everything on the Catamaran and swim to the beach. Afterwards, we were all pretty tired, so they brought us back to the Catamaran in a smaller boat. These pictures are all taken as we were going back.

These pictures were all taken as we were back on the Catamaran and were heading back to our ship. We were all pretty tired at this point...since we had spent the entire day swimming and snorkeling...but it was so worth it! :)

These are all friends or ours. They are all coworkers/contractors of Matt's that had gone on this excursion with us.

Left to right: Matt, Karen Berg, Bill Berg, Brent Cardon, Marie Cardon, and Richard Harward (one of the owners of Sprinkler World and one of the guys we get our paychecks from!).

Left to right: Me, Matt, Karen Berg, Bill Berg, Marie Cardon, Richard Harward.

Matt and I....with Karen Berg to the right of Matt.

More pictures on the way back to the ship.

Part of the excursion on the way back included dancing, music, and entertainment provided by the crew. Brent Cardon is in the red shirt and Char'Ree Reynolds is in the white shirt. Both were from our group and were playing a dancing game. The other 2 people were just random people who were also on the excursion. These were the final 4 in the game and Brent and Char'Ree actually ended up winning it together. It was pretty fun and entertaining! :)