Trips: Cabo San Lucas (Day 4)

March 8, 2011

This was the day we exceeded laziness.  We actually called it our "lazy day," or more accurately our laziest day.  In a place like Cabo, where there is so little stress and potentially so much inactivity, there are actually degrees of laziness.  Our agenda for the day: make it to the sunset cruise and make a reservation for Edith's for our final night in Cabo.  We barely got these things done.  

We spent the morning pool-side at our resort.  Leah read about world events in the daily paper, while I read Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.  I hopped into the pool.  She crawled into it, turned blue and maintained the fetal position for a good ten minutes since the pool was too cold for her liking.  (The only thing warm enough in the world, I'm convinced, is the sun itself.)  Then she got a cold drink at the swim-up bar.  It was entirely peaceful.  I read and ordered some drinks.  Then came lunch.  And of course a nap.  

We changed and took a cab to the Marina.  We were told to meet at No Worries to register for the sunset cruise.  Go figure, Leah and I get lost through the cab driver dropped us off in the right spot.  As the information guy said to us, "Are you worried about finding No Worries?"  No Worries was a bar and restaurant where Cabo Escape sunset cruises was based.  I scoured the menu, worried that the dinner on the cruise would be inadequate.  (This would not end up being an issue; the food was plentiful.)  

The sunset cruise reminded me, to a degree and on a family-friendly scale, of the booze cruises in Cancun during spring break several years ago.  One member of the crew dressed like one of the Three Amigos with a holster carrying hard liquor.  He went up to each person of drinking age, made them drink a shot while blowing a whistle, and finished it off by taking your head and swirling it around.  You know, to really make it take effect.  Leah observed that guys were getting screwed into huge shots.  Yes, this happened to me.  Yes, my head swirled.  Yes, it took effect. 

This was one of several oddities during this sea adventure.  There was a cabaret version of Radiohead's Creep blaring on overhead speakers.  We watched three moms and their three kids cutely dressed in matching outfits ... and proceeded to watch one of the moms get shit-faced, later agreeing to dance-offs, which would later would involve a stripper pole.  A cameraman jumped all over and around the boat like Spiderman taking pictures.  A couple who looked like and could have only been from Texas were drinking and dancing, sometimes well and sometimes not.  At one point while we were dancing, we heard a huge thud; the Texas guy slid through the Texas gal's legs. 

But there were the non-oddities too.  The views of Los Arcos (The Arch) were incredible, especially on the one night there was mild cloud cover to make the sky a bit more dramatic.  The Mexican dinner on board was authentic and delicious.  The open bar was a huge, huge plus.  I think we all took advantage of that.  Then the sunset on the Pacific side of Land's End was amazing.  We were all snapping photos.  We were all helping each other snap photos.  All while eighties music blasted in the background.  By the trip's end, we were all dancing on the deck while the ship pulled into the marina.  I had a good buzz going.  We found our acrobatic cameraman and got copies of the pictures he took.  The two hours flew by.  Again, well worth that presentation we did oh so long ago.  

We found ourselves at the Wyndham hotel.  We asked one of the guys to hail us a cab.  He screamed into his walkie-talkie: "We need a cab, VIP, VIP .... HURRY UP!"  We were cracking up.  "You like that, eh?" he said.  Leah continued to laugh hysterically.  "She's still laughing," he says to me, amused.  Leah and I must say, Mexicans have a wonderful sense of humor.  

How to decompress after a sunset cruise?  Relax on the balcony of a villa and hop in a jacuzzi.  That 's what we did.  And it worked just fine.