San Jose del Cabo Vacation: Downtown Art Walk & La Lupita

Alas, we come to my last vacation post.

Our last night in San Jose del Cabo we spent downtown at the "Art Walk".

We were lucky because it was the last one of the season!

The Mission of San Jose del Cabo is right in the town square.

 I regret that I did not explore a little bit more in here, and that I did not really read about the history.

 I will have to read up a little on my own.

 There are art galleries all surrounding the historic town square, and local artists set up shop in the town square as well.

 It was a feast for the eyes and I was in color heaven. 

 We went to dinner at La Lupita, at the suggestion of a local at our resort.

P.S. I highly recommend TOMS for traveling.

Not only are they super lightweight and easy to pack, but I have worn them all over Disneyland

 and Cabo and my feet never hurt or got tired.

 I loved all of the colors and decoration.

 I don't remember what they name of this cocktail was. I think it had Lupita in the name, but it was good. It was basically like a margarita. La Lupita has about 20 different types of tacos. I tried two, and Joel tried three. I don't even remember what all we had, but I do remember the "cheese crust pastor". It's a taco with a fried cheese crust and pork. It was very good, and also probably pretty unhealthy, but hey we were on vacation right?

You can't really tell in this picture, but there is a stage right below the sugar skull, and they often have live music perform. 

Joel and I were there to early in the evening though.

 They served us our check in this cool box! 

 Random cool car parked downtown. 

 

 We purchased most of our souvenirs at the shop pictured below.

 We bought ourselves this beautiful blanket, shot glasses, and a Christmas ornament.

 We didn't make to the glass factory that I posted about before we left, hopefully next time!

We pick out 1 special ornament to represent our year every Christmas. This will be our special one for this year to represent our first vacation out of the country together!

I love all of the random paintings and bright colors.

 

 Oh the colors!

 This art gallery had sensors hooked up to the stairs so that when you walked on them they made music.

 This was the entrance to a plaza of several shops. The most beautiful glass lantern shop. I would have loved to have taken pictures, in more of the shops, but I didn't think the artists would appreciate it. Here's just a small set of the glass lanterns,

 and this picture really doesn't do it justice. 

After we finished our shopping we watched a local dance troupe perform in the town square,

 and finished our night off with some churros :) 

 The next morning it was time to go back home :(

Our checkout time was a couple of hours before our airport shuttle pickup, 

so after checking out we went and viewed the Eiffel Tower...

We said goodbye to some of our friends...

 

 

We had lunch at Mama Mia's one last time.

 I had my first and last pina colada of our trip.

 We indulged in one last Pacifico...

and then we were off...

My $5 turkey says: Until next time Cabo!

San Jose del Cabo Vacation: Swimming with Dolphins

One of the experiences Joel & I got to do in Cabo was swimming with dolphins!

For both of us to swim with the dolphins it would have cost $298, but we were able to get it for free for going to a timeshare presentation. I'm going to be honest, I was a little nervous about doing it. I'm not a big water person, and even though I think dolphins are amazing, being in the water with something that big made me anxious. Joel talked me into it though, and then I came across this fun fact while I was looking up info on it:

I took that as a sign that I was meant to do it ;)

The dolphin experience took place at the marina in San Jose. 

Side note, there's a really cool container bar right next to it that I had planned on going to when I was researching places to eat, but I didn't realize it was going to be right next to the dolphin place and I didn't budget time to go while we were there. Next time!

We swam with Cleopatra. You can read more about her in the picture below.

We spent most of the time standing on a platform right off the dock. We also had to be careful that nothing on us could scratch the dolphin so we couldn't wear our rings in the water. We also couldn't wear sun screen, so Joel and I got a little burned. Also, there were little tropical fish swimming around off and on the whole time.

 We got to do what was called the "boogie push". You hold on to a boogie board, keep your legs straight, and then the dolphin comes behind you and pushes your foot with its nose across the water.

  We got to hold onto Cleopatra's fins and ride on her stomach, just in a little circle. 

We got to kiss the dolphin & be kissed.

 Dance with the dolphin.

 And...pretend to be strong I guess? haha I'm not sure why they had us do this one.

 The trainer fed the dolphin about every 5 minutes, and if he didn't then Cleopatra would start talking to him. It was cute. Then when he wanted to distract her, he would throw and ice cube out into the water to get her to swim out. 

 The dolphins jumped so high!

I'm glad I have a husband who pushes me outside of my comfort zone!

Kind of amazing!

Happy Monday :)