Cruisin- Day Four

Today we stopped at our first port, Puerto Vallarta. Rich and Marla booked us a great excursion on a pirate ship, so we got of the boat early that morning and got in line to meet our pirate. While waiting, a lady came up and asked if the kids wanted to hold her parrot. They thought it was cool, but little did I know that we were supposed to pay her for this service.....lesson learned. And thanks, Marla, for forking over the cash.

 We met our pirate, Bones, and boarded the ship. On our ride to a little island the pirates put on a show for us, got us dancing, and fed us breakfast. This was also the first time we encountered "Tie Dye" and his family. They were odd ducks, and we saw them throughout the rest of the cruise. We called him Tie Dye because he wore the same tie dyed shirt every day....of course I failed to get a picture of him until the day we left, and he was wearing a new shirt!

 Once on the island, the kids had a blast playing on the beach! Jackson got pummeled by a wave and wore his life jacket from that moment on. The pirates took the kids on a treasure hunt, I caught a crab, and we all enjoyed a nice swim.

Back on the ship we enjoyed more of the pirate show, had yummy drinks, ate lunch, and got some pirate scars.

this is our pirate, Bones (stop swooning, Alayna!)

no, Jackson is not crying- it's just the salt water!

 We got back on the ship in time to shower before dinner. Tonight we ate in Animator's Palate. It was so neat! They had Disney music playing the whole time, and the paintings on the walls would randomly light up. The servers did a little show, and the whole room lit up. Even Mickey made an appearance.

After dinner we saw Toy Story the Musical and nearly all of us fell asleep. It was a long, but fun day!

A stingray welcomed us to our room and we gladly jumped in bed, exhausted.