Carnival is a Treat on Halloween!

First off, Halloween was great. My Dad wore his pumpkin shirt again and how can that NOT make an evening fun? We went to dinner in costume, and at about 7pm the trick or treating began! The plan was that you go to a specified starting point and are given a map. Then, from looking at the map, you are supposed to go from point to point and get candy from employees on the ship. I knew it wasn't a good sign when, at our first stop - the disco - they asked "oh, are you guys all done? Congratulations!" and we had to respond ".....uh, no. This is our first stop." "Oh! That's okay! Go get more candy and come back here at the end!" That's when it hit me how late we were starting the activity. So at the second stop they told us to just go back to the disco for the "wrap up" party and we'd get more treats there. Lots of the Camp Carnival staff were there with m&m's brand candy to hand out to the kids, and gave them several handfuls when they learned we'd only been to two stations. They had dancing and photos with "Fun Ship Freddy" who was all Halloween'd up (so our kids refused to go near this "scary Freddy." - see photo.-) They had costume contests by age, and all the cousins won their categories. The gal that was in charge of the 6-8 year olds was so excited by the coincidence that she wanted their picture taken with her, so of course I needed one too. *grin* She was very nice, from Croatia I think. She spent about 30 or more min. talking to David and getting to know him. Later after we were home David was telling me about our trip and told me about "his girlfriend" who he'd met at the Halloween party that wanted him to visit her at the kids club. Yeah, it was the employee. But how sweet.

The next morning Mike went on a 2 tank scuba dive in Cabo San Lucas and my folks and I and the boys hit Cabo for the sights and shopping. The cousins went with their folks on tour, so we didn't see them until we got back on the ship. It was the "Dia de los Muertos" and I was really excited to buy some "Pan de Muerto" (bread of the dead). If you click on the link for the Dia de los Muertos it had some neat info about it. I really wanted to buy Dave J. a sugar skull (shown on the web page) but I couldn't find any. *sigh* No sugar skulls, no pan de muerto, no cute skeleton figures, it was kind of a bummer. It was hard to tell that it was any kind of a special day in Cabo. We had a good time shopping in the insanely humid heat and all too soon it was time to get back on the boat. When you arrive in port there is no dock, so the ships hire these tenders to haul you and your stuff back and forth from the ship to the port. It's a short ride, and I love to see all the choppy water from the back of the tender. It just makes the water sparkle.