On day 4, we stopped at Manzanillo. Now, for those who never cruised, one daily thing when cruising is picture, and Gus knows how much I hate when somebody is taking a picture of me, so every night before dinner, there is photographers in certain locations in the ship that I pretty much avoid, willing to take pic of u cz they are paid by what u buy. And every time u get out of the ship they are waiting for u at the end of the 'toll bridge' to click u, most of the time I escaped cause I was going out from the bridge reserved for the Crew since my friend was working on the ship. So today, some local women wearing the traditional outfit were waiting outside to be taken in pic with u, I clicked some..


We wait half and hour before getting our bus, the 10min that separated us from our final destination was pretty much un clickable... it was full of big trucks or giants containers full of dunno what, everywhere, it was like a cemetery of containers and also a border kind of. Anyway, I went to take a boat to do some snorkeling. In the boat, all the chairs where sponsored by the local typical beer in Mexico which is Corona I even bought a Corona s towel, I know I m such a tourist!


The crossing last 20 minutes before we reached the used to be 'Elephant Rock ' before the snorkeling part, but due to an earthquake the actual trunk of the elephant fell, so let ur creativity begin cz u definitively have to use ur imagination to recognize the elephant


Then we went snorkeling, I took my flippers and my mask and tuba and jump in the water, i was a bit disappointed since the water was green, it was warm but green so i could not see much of fish in the water, i bought a underwater plastic camera and i took a couple of pics but i don t know if it will be good.

Not that i m scared of water, but when I can t reach the ground of the sea, I like to see through to avoid scary fishes or any other sea animals. Specially when that crazy old bitch said 'omg i think i saw a shark' I mean 'WTF' why would u say that stupid! I m gonna make u eat ur f@#% flippers if u say it again!
And an other stupid one, who was actually under water with her mask watching me obviously cz she told me 'DON T touch the coral, u are killing it, and once it s dead if u touch it, it will cut u badly' OMG, who are u 'Greenpeace' why don t u take care of urself and go spy on somewhere else!
So we swam for an hour, well less for me, since somebody almost killed me with one of his flippers who almost reached my nose, I went back to the boat... it was open bar ;)
I got my first fresh margarita and a nice red flower, and i took a pic of myself, be happy People cz i hate taking pics of myself ;)


Usually what happens, and I have a tradition to take a pic of my feet, yeah I know what u might think, what a crazy french, but i don t like me on the pic, but i have nothing against my feet, so to prove to people that at least I was there :) well ...I was seating at the front of the boat, taking the sea fresh air on my face and clicked a pic of my feet :)


We had also a beer contest, i did not participate to it, due to the heat and the way the boat was moving, I already drank way too much :) margaritas, then some Corona beers, won t tell u how many i stopped counting after 5 ;) I even had a chat with El Capitan of the boat :


When I finally reached the ship, i was exhausted, somehow drunk, my way to my cabin looked unusually longer than it used to be, probably cz I went to the 6th floor instead of the 7th trying to open my supposed to be cabin which was not mine, it took me 10 frustrating minutes trying to slide my cabin card into the locking thingy to finally realize it was not the number 6583 but 7583 .
My face was red like the flower, as for the rest of my body, specially the shoulders and back i look like a giant lobster. In my cabin was waiting my second Animal s towel, I guess Froggy the Frog, was not sure what animal it was, but my friend assured me it was a frog so... too tired, i barely talked to my new friend, I took an other cold shower and fell in sleep like a baby :)


PS: by the way if u read my post about Mexican cruise Day 1 and 2 and u are still wondering what the Chicken Olympics were, or if u were thinking i just made a joke, no no, the Chicken Olympics took place on the deck 9, next to the pool, the Crew filmed it, and I had the fantastic pleasure to see it on tv. Some shamelessness people started to mimic the chicken, well it s funny when u are 5, ridiculous when u are 50 years old.


Then they had to throw some faked yellow chicken into some boxes to gain some point depending how far they reached the box, followed by how many faked chicken can fit in a tee shirt or sometimes even more scary into some men s short, the more u had the merer and they finished to dance that ridiculous dance called the 'Chicken dance'


that I once myself brilliantly danced when I was 5 I guess, i m sure my grandma have some pics of it, i ll try to scan one during Xmas cause i m sure u are all looking forward seeing me wearing yellow short and shirt :)
Coming up next on 'It's in the Eire' Day5: Ixtapa where the sun heats....A LOT

Greetings People, It is 11PM here in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 11AM local time and to avoid dying with the heat i am at starbuck using free internet from the Chili restaurant :) As u can see I finally put some pics on my previous post.


So shortly, I m happy to finally reach the land. Yesterday was a quiet day, I stay at the pool, working on my tan. We saw for the first time in 2 days the land with Cabo San Luca (not too sure for the spelling) so I took some pics with my friend Marie Eve.


Today I m going to the beach then to a restaurant, no off shore activities just some chill out, tomorrow however I will do some Catamaran ride and snorkel activities, looking forward :)

Now, yesterday night I watch a 3 hours Indian movie, that a colleague of mine from Hyderabad brought here. I have seen a couple of bollywood movies that we have here in Ireland but it s mostly the commercial ones like (Om Shanti Om, Love Story 2050) and the thing that I noticed it s most of the time, there is LOTS of colors, lots of dance and music, and love story (with NO kissing, i m not even mentionning sex) and always a happy ending.


I ve seen recently one called "Brick Lane" and yes for the first time I have seen a not so happy ending story with a very intimate scene, now I don t know if it is a real indian movie and how people react in Indian when they saw the movie? (u can answer that question people :)


SO yesterday I ve seen Rang De Basanti, and I must say I went a bit emotional at the end of it, for the first time I ve seen a kiss (and I believe it is an Indian movie:) and a sad story! It was a long movie but I did not get bored during it, we pretty much did not stop the movie during the intermission.
I even recognized some actors like one of the main actors (the one playing the muslim with long hair) I ve seen him a recent movie that I forgot the name (of course) and I was happy to see the one playing the father of the muslim, I think he was the one playing the main role in the movie 'The city of Joy' :)
I really like it, now I have a couple of questions that u might be able to answer to it, please do so people:
- it s a movie from 2006, does it reflect what s going in India nowaday?
- Do u have real intermission during movie at the cinema? What do u do then? Can u go out of the movie room?
- Can u tell m which good Indian movies I should watch with or without happy ending :)


I am not very creative tonite (was a bit sick today :( ) so it won t be a loooooong post today, but i m happy to say that we finally finish the DVD of the play I did 2 months ago. For the first time I played with some colleagues of mine in a play called "What the Butler saw" originally played in 1969 by Joe Orton, 2 years after he died from tragical conditions in 1967. Now, the original played was pretty... well it is hard to describe it. But see what s wikipedia said about it:

"Orton's controversial farce What The Butler Saw debuted in the West End after his death in 1969. It opened at the Queen's Theatre. It was booed so loudly by gallery first nighters that the critics could not hear the lines.
[...] The play was Orton's last before his death in 1967. The first public performance of the play - almost two years after Orton’s brutal murder - was reportedly barracked with cries of "filth!""


And he died from:
"On August 0, 1967, Halliwell bludgeoned the 34-year-old Orton to death with nine hammer blows to the head, and then committed suicide with an overdose of 22 Nembutal tablets washed down with the juice from canned grapefruit. Investigators determined that Halliwell died first, because Orton's body was still warm."

U can find a sum up of the original story here if u dare to do so :) we haven t play the entire play for two reasons:
-the words he used specially in the second act were too difficult to understand or to pronounce since all of the actors were foreigners :)
- the second act was way too harsh (including topics like incest, murder and so and so) that we thought won t be appropriate in front of our co-workers, plus we wanted to avoid the 'filth!' at the end of the show, so we kept only the funny parts of it. I was playing Doctor Rance a crazy psichiatrist, I really enjoyed doing it, and for my first play, and in english it was not too bad I must say :)


Ok, I m done with this post, I finish with the picture of the day that i actually took last saturday, to show u that YES sometimes, rarely, but sometimes, the weather is nice in Ireland, it did not not rained the ENTIRE weekend which is amazing for the end of september!!! It was taken at the Trinity College, the biggest university in Dublin

Bye for now People and yeah tomorrow It s Thanks God It s Friday!!!!!