Here's the boat we sailed on in the harbor. The harbor was also loading 2 other cruise ships. Our boat (the Sapphire Princess) was the largest.

Here's another shot of the boat. We were wondering what those big silver things on top were. From the top of the boat they look like big jet engines. We never did get an answer.

Here's us outside the boat, waiting to board.

Here's a shot of our massive stateroom. What you see is pretty much the entire thing. There was a fairly large closet space behind me, along with a dresser type thing with shelves and a safe. The bathroom wasn't much larger than what you see on an airplane, along with a shower. You have to be fairly skinny to fit in the shower.

While we were getting ready to sail, work went on in the port of Los Angeles.

This is a shot off our balcony facing toward the rear of the ship.

Here I am on the miniature golf course. I didn't do too well as the course was mainly hills - no windmills or anything. There was also a virtual golf course somewhere on the ship but I never got around to visiting it.

Here's a picture of both of us that another couple was nice enough to take. This was taken during the departure party, at roughly 4 in the afternoon.

This is one of our escort boats. It stayed next to us from the time we pulled away from the pier until we were out of the harbor and into the ocean.

Here's a pretty good picture of some dolphins. At numerous times during the cruise groups of them would jump around the ship. I think they thought the ship was their mother.

Here are some nice looking clouds.

more clouds...

Here's Donna looking out at the water.

This is somewhere on the coast of Mexico.

Here's Donna standing by one of the pools in the back of the boat. There were 5 pools (one indoor). 2 of them were for adults only and one of those had a current generator. You could turn it on and try swimming against a current. It was fun!

This was taken from the deck of a night club at the back of the boat. There's a hot tub on the right, a pool on the left, and another pool on the lower level in the center. The lower pool is where we would spend much of our shipboard time.

Here's a shot taken from the back of the boat.

Here's Donna enjoying a fine meal. I gained 7 pounds on this trip! (I've already lost 5 of them :-))

This is roughly the center of the ship, where all of the shopping is. Note the Mariachi band on the lower level. Someone was always playing there. You can't see the casino, movie theater, numerous restaurants, bars, night clubs and the health spa.

This was Donna's favorite store on the ship :-)

We are approaching Puerto Vallarta. I think this was taken around 7 am.

This is a shot of the high price hotel district of Puerto Vallarta, as seen from our balcony.

Here's a shot of the boat as we were leaving on our shore excursion in Puerto Vallarta

Here are some local Indians.

Here's a video of the local pole spinners. They apparently dress in native costumes, climb the pole, attach ropes to themselves, inhale peyote and then fling themselves off the pole. The rope they're attached to un-spools itself and they slowly wind their way to the ground, where they immediately start canvassing the crowd for tips'. I bought a flute for $3!

Here's a picture of some of the local Indians spinning around a pole. I can't remember why they do this.

There are statues everywhere along the coast of these towns. Here's a picture of one of those statues.

This was taken in the town square. The Catholic church is very revered in most Mexican towns. That tall building you see is the Catholic Church. We took a tour of it and noticed that people driving automobiles in front of it would do the "sign of the cross" as they drove by..

A shot from inside the church...

This is just a plastic body, but I thought it was very creepy...

This is a sculpture of John Huston. It's in the center of Puerto Vallarta's tourist area. According to our tour guide, John Huston is the main reason that Puerto Vallarta is known today. The town reveres him.

Here's the view from the restaurant where we had a Mexican cooking lesson. No windows and right on the beach!

The locals were selling these para-sailing spidermen (or Batmen) everywhere in Mexico. The following day I would break down and buy one for 50 peso's (5$ american). I have not yet had the opportunity to fly it at home.

Here I am on the veranda of the restaurant where we learned to make salsa!

We noticed this sign as we were leaving...

Relaxing in the "Crooner" bar after a long day on shore...

Here's the ship in Mazatlan!

There were many soldiers such as this around the ship area. I saw at least 4 in Puerto Vallarta and this soldier here in Mazatlan. Very sobering after a day on the town...

This is a shot of the street on our way to our shore excursion in Mazatlan. When we showed this picture to Alex, he thought it was taken in his neighborhood...

This is a what the coast of Mazatlan looks like...

Here's another statue on the way to our shore excursion.

Here we are on the actual day of our 25th anniversary, ready to make some salsa! My hat was custom made.

Here I am creating an excellent salsa!

Here's our table after all of our salsa has been made. Messy, but tasty!

Here's the area where we did the second part of our "Salsa and Salsa" excursion. We learned to Salsa dance underneath that tent on the right. I don't think I'll ever be able to duplicate the skills I learned without the uno dos tres, quatro cinco ses cadence that our teacher used...

This is me, after a full day of margarita drinking, salsa dancing and salsa making. I think this picture was taken around 12 noon.

Here we are in an outdoor port-side bar, enjoying a non imported Corona!

I'm a big fan of Corona (and to a lesser extent, Pacifico) Beer. This is where it all comes from...

I was standing on a platform above the bridge as we were pulling out of Mazatlan. I looked down and who did I see!!!!

We're beginning our journey out of the Mazatlan Harbor. This was a view from the left (port) side of the ship.

We're sailing out of the harbor in Mazatlan - I thought this looked nice...