As part of my continuing endeavor to be the most well rounded monkey alive, I convinced the Old Lady and the Man with the Fuzzy Face that it would be a really good idea to go on a cruise with a bunch of their old (and when I say, "old," I mean OLD!) classmates from high school. I'm sure they really wanted to meet me and hang out with me, and this seemed like the perfect way for them to do just that!

 These are my peeps that I went on the cruise with. They were all a lot of fun! And, of course, they LOVED me!




 I made some friends on the first day. They were very quiet, acted quite rude, and come to think of it, I never saw them again after this picture was taken. I hope they didn't fall over board!

There was some kind of joke with this jacket that I didn't understand, but it was a warm safe place to sit and watch the water go by. I was very uncomfortable being on deck with all that wind and all that water. The Old Lady even made horrible jokes about what would happen if I blew off the ship! I didn't even want to think about it!

I stayed hidden in our cabin most of the first day, but I came out to have dinner and cocktails. I guess I had a few too many because I ended up, well, kind of messing up the Man with the Fuzzy Face's coffee cup the next morning...




 My new friend Charmaine is very fun. I am wearing my tux, of course, for the captains dinner. I never actually saw the captain, which doesn't make any sense. I would have thought he'd come right over and introduced himself, when he knew I was on board.


I made lots and lots of friends on the ship. This one was almost as quiet as the first two and he disappeared right about the same time the Old Lady took a shower. I don't understand where he went. Maybe the old lady with no clothes on was just too scary for him!




 This is my friend from Cozumel. If you look really close, you will notice we both have similar outfits. My rebozo is more colorful though. His gun was kind of scary too, but he was really nice.

While we were in Cozumel, we went on a snorkeling trip. I thought this was the stupidest idea anyone every came up with! We got off the big ship, which was scary enough, and just as I was getting all excited to be on dry land again, we got on a teeny, tiny sailboat and went back out on the water! Then those crazy people put on masks and snorkles and went INTO the water! Accckkkk... I was terrified I would fly off the boat. So um... I guess I made it better by drinking just a little too much Tequila....

And beer....



 

 But I made some more new friends and they thought I was WONDERFUL!

Until I, well, kind of barfed in their head....




So once we were back on board the big ship, I spent the rest of the afternoon chillin' with Portnoy and Gipsy in the cabin. It was much safer there!








That evening, they had a "private" cocktail party just for me and all the Old Lady's high school friends came to party with me.


This is me ordering a drink.......






And this is me drinking it...


 But then, the most horrible thing happened! During the cocktail party for me, I found out that one of my new friends, this beautiful girl named Amy, who I thought was going to be my new girl friend, this wonderful person.... She lets her dog chew up little fuzzy people like me! I was heartbroken and devastated! So I went back to the cabin, put on my pajamas and sulked. The Old Lady insisted I go to dinner, but I refused to take off my pajamas....

And I wouldn't eat anything either, no matter how hard they tried to get me to......

In spite of that trauma, I had a really good time on the cruise and I can't wait to do it again.