Day 4: Cabo San Lucas
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Cruise Compass
MDR Menu: A Taste of Mexico
Today’s Weather: about 64, winds 17 mph from the north, waves about 2’
Internet Speed: 9.44 Mbps down, 1.96 Mbps up, connected to Los Angeles
Location at Start of Day: 9:00A

We work up around 8:30A DST, having both slept pretty well.  Unfortunately, I had a sore throat which I’d felt creeping up on me at the end of last night.  At least, as I write this around 9:00A, it is JUST a sore throat.  Hoping it doesn’t get worse!

Today’s Cabo stop turns out to be little more than a whistle stop.  Tendering isn’t expected to start until around 1:00P and the last returning tender is at 7:15P.  Given that we have a 5:30P dinner at Hooked, plus my sore throat, we doubt we’ll go ashore at all.

Quick breakfast at WJ with just basic eggs and side meat for both of us before heading over to Schooner for General Trivia.  We got 18/21 – which put us in a group for 4^th place.  We popped to the outside deck to see if it was good reading weather, but it was a bit too windy for us so we instead had our first trip to the Solarium, where we stretched out on a couple of window-side loungers and read.  We then made a quick stop at the cabin to refresh drugs, then back down to Schooner for Dingbats.  It was non-competitive, but we managed to get 22 of 24 of the puzzles.

Next we walked back out on the pool deck and decided to get our lunch at the (new to us) El Loco Fresh.  We both built our own tortilla-based snack, plus I got a beef burrito (too dry) while E had a cheese quesadilla (which she liked).  We both liked our tortilla “thing” and also shared a bowl of nachos.  I added a couple of Lava Flows and we had quite a nice lunch outdoors while the tenders started departing for shore beneath our pool-side table.  Another quick cabin stop (this time for E’s drugs) and then back down to Schooner, this time for Classic Rock trivia – where we got 9 of 20.  Pathetic!

Back to the cabin for balcony time on a lovely afternoon, with boats and jet skis passing underneath us, and then at 4:00P we once again head back to Schooner for Movie Charades, and then stick around for the 5:00P general trivia before our 5:30P dinner at Hooked.

Dinner was better than we were expecting.  Our appetizers (clam chowder for me, crab cake for E) were both particularly good.  E had the grilled catch of the day (salmon) while I had the Fisherman’s Plate (or the non-deep fried version of that if I remembered the name wrong) with fish (halibut), grilled shrimp, and lobster tail.  The grilled shrimp was particularly good.  Our desserts were fine, but nothing special (brownie for me, cherry pie for E).

From there, we went up to the Star Lounge for Rock-a-Oke, which is essentially karaoke but with the live band.  That was fun – and the band’s usual lead singer was really great at helping out the (many) clueless folks who got lost in the music.  We then stayed for Majority Rules (which MAYBE we did on the Alaska cruise, although I don’t think we paid a lot of attention since we had so much family present and there was a lot of talking).  Glad we did it, but certainly NOT appointment TV.

We ended the night with The Love and Marriage Show in the theater.  We had 9-day newlyweds (although they looked to be in their 40s) along with 24-year and 48-year couple.  As expected, the oldest couple were charming and took away the top prize.