Cruisin' With Our Favorite Couple, Part 1

It's so hard to travel with friends when you live across the country from each other and one set has kids that are graduated from high school and the other have young kids in elementary school but we did it. We planned a great cruise out of Los Angeles to Mexico.

After spending a week in Seattle getting the boys settled in with their grandparents, off I flew with Bill and Janine to Los Angeles, where we met up with Jason, who flew in from Atlanta. Whew, we were ready for a week without kids and no stress!

We had one day and one night in Long Beach, where we enjoyed some fantastic food (best Mexican ever!), fun sightseeing and even passed by a couple movie shoots!!

The weather was perfect so we strolled around by the water.

Caught a view of The Queen Mary.

Enjoyed looking at some yachts.

And took a water taxi around the bay area.

Traveling with this group is nothing short of non-stop fun!

We really love these two!

Here we are in line to board the ship.

And we can never be too serious!

After checking out a bit of the ship and seeing our rooms, we headed to the top back of the ship and the adult's only Serenity area for the sail away. We got our drink of the day and settled into the lounge chairs.

The waterslide that no one took advantage of. I guess if we had kids we might have...

Sailing away...

These lounges were the best. I think the sun and alcohol had me very relaxed. Definitely needed this cruise time with these people.

We just can't ever be too serious.

It was so relaxing back there!

This was our first of two formal nights on the ship.

Finally a serious photo!

Good times, good food, good friends!

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