The Flight And Arrival Lunch Was Uneventful!

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard

They Looked Alive After Five Hours On An Airplane

Join the fun: 1 - The Flight And Arrival Lunch | 2 - The First Night At Sea | 3 - First Night's Entertainment | 4 - Arrival In Mexico | 5 - The Tour Begins | 6 - Cooking Mexican Food | 7 - Walking Tour | 8 - Return & Formal Evening At Sea | 9 - Return To Long Beach

Time for a vacation so Jonathan decided to come to sunny California!  Yeah!

The Flight Was Easy Except For Getting Up In The Morning


They are half way here... we are half way awake!  seems fair to us!

The Flight
Up Up And Away!

Did you know? - "Up, Up and Away" is a 1967 song written by Jimmy Webb and recorded by The 5th Dimension, that became a major pop hit, reaching #7 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart and sold well in Canada. The single peaked at #9 on Billboard's Easy Listening Top 40.

Did you know? -American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a major airline of the United States and is the world's second largest airline (behind Delta Air Lines) in passenger miles transported, passenger fleet size, and operating revenues

The Flight
Not a lot of contrast at 35,000 feet

The Flight
Last of the Southern California snow for this season

The Flight
Looks like the California desert

Pickup Was Easy.... Now It's Time To Eat!

Red Alaskan Crab

Did you know? - The red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, is the most coveted of the commercially-sold king crab species, and is the most expensive per unit weight. It was named after the color it turns when it is cooked rather than the color of a living animal, which tends to be more burgundy.

Red king crabs can be very large, sometimes reaching a carapace width of 28 centimeters (11 in) and a leg span of 1.8 meters (6 ft). It is most commonly caught in the Bering Sea and Norton Sound, Alaska, and is particularly difficult to catch, but is nonetheless one of the most preferred crabs for consumption.

The king crab is native to the Bering Sea, north Pacific Ocean, around the Kamchatka Peninsula and neighboring Alaskan waters. It was introduced artificially by the Soviet Union into the Murmansk Fjord, Barents Sea, during the 1960s to provide new, valuable catch for Soviet fishermen.

Jon lives Gladstones
Chomp  No Jon, not the shell!

Jon lives Gladstones
Tummies full... Time to find the ship!

Time To Get Aboard And Meet The Ship


View from the parking lot


Nope! Wrong ship!


Correct!


Come on guys!

QM from the Paradise
The Queen looked pretty big from below... Now, not so much!

The funnel
Begin the tour!

Join the fun: 1 - The Flight And Arrival Lunch | 2 - The First Night At Sea | 3 - First Night's Entertainment | 4 - Arrival In Mexico | 5 - The Tour Begins | 6 - Cooking Mexican Food | 7 - Walking Tour | 8 - Return & Formal Evening At Sea | 9 - Return To Long Beach