Mom is killing me! She orders room service at 7 in the morning and the guy shows up right on time. The usual; 2 coffees, juice and a roll. I jump up, stumble my way to the door to greet the server who says, "Good morning". Ya, right. Now I go back to bed and we sleep 2 more hours while the coffee gets cold. Then we go to the buffet for hot coffee. Somehow this doesn't make sense but we do it every day. I just had to tell somebody and Mom won't lis...

We got up late after a long night, like around 10. Boomer and Min picked up some laundry for us since they had only half a load. We went up to the buffet and just got in for breakfast at 11:30 before they shut it down to prepare for lunch. We sat up there and talked until 1, then Mom went back to the room to rest her leg while I went to the library and worked on the blog. I returned to the room at 5 and dressed for the fancy dinner. Tonight scallops, salad, w...

"Now who's at the door?". Mom motions me to resolve the issue and I open it to greet Boomer who says, "We're ready. Let's go." From her beauty bar located just around the corner, she gives me a stern glare, then says, "Hi guys. What's going on? Al, let's go. Where's your shoes?" It's a little after 8am and the boat doesn't dock until 11. What's up? Apparently, they spoke with some crew member who said that the ship migh...

We got a quick breakfast this morning and made a beeline for the gangway to checkout La Paz. Mom's knee is bothering her so she opted out of the shore trip today. It was a short day made even shorter by another hour because of a last minute change in the ship itinerary. We docked at 8am but have to be back on board by 12:30pm and it takes 40 minutes by shuttle bus to get to the town. That doesn't leave much time to do anything but I want to see La Paz...

At 6:30am, I got the call from Alan that we needed to get breakfast and be off the boat by 8am. I was still charging camera batteries but we dressed and prepared to leave. Mom said she was not going today and wanted to stay on the ship but she changed her mind during breakfast. We took the first tender to the town of Loreto where we met a guy holding a sign with Alan's name on it. We walk with him to the dive shop where we meet Rafa and Oscar from the dive ...