THE BIONDO FAMILY: Mexican Cruise with Mom

What a whirlwind life has been the last couple of weeks! Let's just start with September 20th... mom and I left for Mexico from San Diego on the Carnival cruise ship the Elation. What an amazing 5 days! We hung out on the Lido Deck by the pool and read and went swimming. We ate dinner in the super nice restaurant... and actually the first night we sat at a table all by ourselves... we were feeling a little left out as the tables around us were all full and we knew you usually end up sitting at a table with people you don't know, and here we were sitting at a table for 8 just the 2 of us! The next day we had a card under our door that said we had been moved to a new table per our request (we had not requested a move!). It turned out to be a great thing! We sat with a couple and their 2 boys, ages 8 and 11. They were from Australia and the cruise was the last leg of their 5 week U.S.A. vacation! We looked forward to seeing and talking to them each night. Anyway, we went to an alcohol tasting that first night and played BINGO in the Mikado Lounge and stayed to watch the entertainment that night. There were stage shows every night with music and dancers or magicians or comedians. There is a casino on board so you know we had to sit in there every night for awhile for mom! They had lounges to listen to music, they had lounges to dance, they had something going on every hour, every day until 3 in the morning! We stopped at two ports, Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada. We only got off at both places for a few hours and then we would head back to the ship and lie out by the pool. The ship was really the best place to be. We both had such a good time and were so glad to be experiencing it together... I want to go on one every year, I think it is the best way to vacation!