Day Thirteen

Cabo San Lucas - Our last stop on our cruise before heading back to Long Beach. We did schedule an excursion for this port called Cabo by Land and Sea. This turned out to be a pretty great tour. The one drawback was that we had to be up early and that is not our favorite thing to do! But we got there on time and then loaded the boat (they called it a catamaran) to sail to the very tip of the Baja Peninsula. This is where the famous Los Arcos is that many people recognize as Cabo San Lucas.

We got some pretty great pictures, so that was fun! It was overcast and looked like it might rain any minute, but we didn't really get any rain until later and that was when we were on the bus. You can kind of see in the pictures that there are a ton of birds (don't ask what kind they are), but they were really cool because they were just gliding around and for some reason I just found them fascinating! The boat just took us to the tip and then turned around and headed back to the dock. Then we all loaded up on buses and headed to our first stop on the "by land" part of the tour.

Our first stop was at a restaurant that was open for dinners only, but they open it up to tours to take some pictures of the coast and Cabo. So we had a few minutes to take pictures and everyone got a free bottle of water. If you look closely in the picture above, you can see our cruise ship docked in the middle of the water (it was too shallow to pull up to the port) and the Los Arcos from far away. This was taken from the restaurant we stopped at.

Our next stop was in the sister city of Cabo, which was called San Jose del Cabo. I didn't realize that when when people said Los Cabos, they were referring to the two cities together. Interesting stuff, huh? Anyway, we got to walk around their town square and saw a mission church and looked in a couple shops.

Then we headed to Mat and I's favorite stop, but I don't think anyone else really liked it. The Cactus Arboretum! There were tons of cacti and we had a great time playing with our new camera and taking pictures. We only had a few minutes there, so that kind of stunk.


After that, we headed to the glass blowing factory where we saw a guy make an angel right there in front of our eyes. It was pretty cool to see the glass blowing process. We had a couple minutes to look in their store, but that didn't seem like enough time either!

Then we headed back to the ship to head home. :( But we still had one more day at sea and there was more fun to be had before our honeymoon was officially over! For all of our pictures from Cabo, click on the picture of the cactus leaf below. Be warned, there are quite a few of them!