Puerto Vallarta

Today we will be spending 12 hours in Puerto Vallarta. Once again, no real plans but we will get off the ship and look around. Possibly shopping too.

 

Mazatlan

Today we will arrive at Mazatlan at 6:15am. We have an “excursion” planned. We are going to a private beach for all you can eat, all you can drink, enjoy the beach all day long. This was Big Monkey’s choosing…we’ll see how it goes! Maybe I’ll look like this all day:

Cabo San Lucas

Today we arrive in Cabo at 10:30am and will be leaving at 6:00pm. We have no real plans at this time (we probably do now but not when I was writing this). I know we will get off the boat and look around…maybe shop or something.

Sailing…..Takes Me Away

Today we are spending the day at sea. I’m sure we’ll spend plenty of time eating. And hopefully the weather will be nice so we can spend some time out by the pool!

 

Bon Voyage

Today we will leave our hotel in Los Angeles and head over to the port. We will then get on our ship to celebrate our 5th anniversary. We are taking a week long cruise along the Western coast of Mexico. The ship sails at 5pm. I can’t wait to get on the boat and just relax. (Hopefully this will be possible and I won’t worry about Little Monkey.)

Leaving On A Jet Plane-

Today we are leaving to go on another vacation (I know I know….I’ve hardly even finished up the last vacation’s blogs!) I will not have access to the internet (partly by choice, partly for financial reasons-money will be better spent elsewhere) while we are gone. So I have written up some blog posts for you to know where we are each day. That way you won’t be missing seeing any new material on my blog. Because I know how you all sit and wait on the edge of your chair for the next blog post. (Humor me here.)

This morning we are finishing up packing and taking Little Monkey to stay with his GrandMom (This is what he is calling her for now. Big Monkey’s Mom) for a few days. Then in the middle of the week, he will get transferred over to his Grammy and Pops (My Mom and Dad). We have to get everything Little Monkey will need, which SHOULD already be packed, but will likely need a few more items. And then also make sure we have everything we need packed. We will head over to GrandMom’s house and she will take Big Monkey and I to the airport to catch our flight. We are hoping to get to the airport around 4:30pm for our 6:45pm flight. We are flying to Los Angeles by way of Washington, D.C. I’m not sure who planned that route but oh well. We should get to Los Angeles about 12am Sunday morning, LA Time.

It Doesn’t Take Much

It doesn’t take much to make me happy. As my email stated, my power cable was to arrive this afternoon. Since they told me it would be here on the 24th, I wasn’t holding out too much hope that it really would be here today. This afternoon, the doorbell rang and it was the Fed-Ex man! I was so very happy because he really did have my power cable. And now my computer will work again. My battery still sucks but we’ll work on that. One thing at a time! So, Thank You to the HP guy who helped me the other day and did manage to get my power cable to me before the weekend like I had asked!

HP Must Like Me A Little Bit

Today I got an email saying that my power cable has SHIPPED! And it has gone out next day and should be here tomorrow afternoon. I’m not holding my breath but that would be very great. Then I’ll have to call them back to let them know that it did not solve the battery issue and they should go ahead and ship one of those out too!

Computer Update

Unfortunately I was not able to see the results of the poll I placed in the previous blog. My computer died and the charger decided not to work AT ALL. I did call HP and still have 44 days left on my warranty. They will be shipping me a new charger, which of course, will not get here until after I leave. I am writing you now from my parent’s computer. I tried to use our desktop last night but it seemed to think that there was no ethernet cable plugged into it when there truly was. Seems like we might have blown our ethernet card in the desktop when the modem got struck by lightening. So I have NO internet at my house right now. Don’t email me…just call. I will have access tomorrow when Big Monkey is home and I can use either his computer or his charger. And then I’ll have access again on Saturday before we leave for vacation.

Hopefully the new power cord will show up on time, as well as the card reader I’ve been waiting over a month for! Once it gets here, I will be calling back to let them know that it did not fix the status of my battery (because I’m pretty sure it won’t) and hopefully they will also send me a new battery. I have never had so much trouble with a computer, especially one that is less than a year old!

Computer Issues

So you may recall the issues I’ve been having with my computer…and if not…well there are lots of posts telling you all about it.

The past few days my power cord has been very finicky. The cord has to be laying just so or it is not thinking it is plugged in and should be charging. My battery only lasts about 45 minutes, if that. I figured I would just buy a new power cord and not try and deal with HP even though it should be covered on my warranty. Today the screen pops up saying that my battery is crap (which we already knew but now it’s worse). When I sent it to HP originally my battery was “good.” When it came back, my battery now read “fair.” Today my battery reads “poor” and when I run the battery test, it says that I need to replace it. Then it says it might be covered by my warranty. And then it states “Just Kidding It’s probably not!” due to the age of my battery, it is not covered by my warranty. So are batteries not covered for the entire year, or did they give me some other  battery that was already crappy?

And now the dilemma of do I call and even bother with HP about the battery and cord or suck it up and buy a new one? I have been waiting since the end of May for my card reader to be sent to me since they “forgot” to reinstall it before shipping it back. The latest update on that was when they called me the day it was supposed to be here at the latest and told me it wasn’t going to make it but that I should have it on or before July 24th. So I need some input…what should I do about this situation?? You have until 8am Friday morning to cast your vote!