This is a “good news/bad news” thing. Because we only recently retuned from Christmas in Oklahoma there wasn’t really a need to clean house for the dog sitter. That was the good news. The bad news is that we were booked on the 6:00 AM flight to Seattle. Which means that the alarm was set for 4:00.

In sum I’d rather vacuum.

However, we got ourselves put together and out the door in good time. It’s interesting how busy the Boise airport is at 5:00 AM.

We had to wait several hours in Seattle before catching the flight to Cabo San Lucas (which we finally found listed under San Jose Del Cabo) and flew for 4 hours down the coast of the US and along the long coast of the peninsula that broke off from Mexico along the San Andreas fault several thousand years ago – as it slowly widened, the sea rushed in creating the newest sea (only 5,000 years old) – the Sea of Cortez. To our surprise we found that Cabo San Lucas (the Cape of St Luke) is different from where our hotel (the Barcelo) was located – San Jose Del Cabo. Our travel agent had reserved a taxi for us (thank goodness as lots of travel and hotel agents were mobbing you as you came out the doors) and drove us across the cactus and scrub landscape to our resort hotel where we would spend the night before we would be picked up by the cruise bus to the actual boat the next day.

I was interested to note that they gave us each a wrist band (which entitled us to all the “free” food and drink at any of its in house restaurants, and also had a chip imbedded in the wrist band which acted as your room “key”!

We changed into shorts and walked past all the swimming pools down to the beach where the high waves were coming in so hard the spume made a rifle cracking sound when the wave crested then rumbled down the beach.

There are actually only a few beaches where you can swim down here – the rip tides and undertows are deadly. However there were venders selling hats, wooden carvings, and horse rides along the beach (watch for horse poop when walking along the beach – although the high tide must carry it away).

The resort was only half full as this is the “off” season (as it’s not all that warm here the first part of January) – which is what made it affordable for us, and also not crowded. We watched a Mexican dance show before bed – I especially liked the Aztec (??) dancers with their very long feathered headdresses and fire dance.