Grape squabble

I'm back. Hello! Back again. And... now I can let my stomach churn with stress once again. Isn't that nice? There's nothing like coming home from vacation, it doesn't matter where from or however long you were gone - there is always something at home that was festering away while you were gone. In most cases it's work obligations or bills that you've been putting off. Mine happens to be christmas shopping, because I really thought I would get more shopping done while on vacation and it turns out that was not really an option when you have very little money and everything is very expensive. And that sucks because now I only have 2 weeks to shop for just about everyone on my list and I. Am. Going. To. Panic.

But the vacation was very nice and very much needed. The boat was wonderful and the people we met were very nice and if it weren't for the fact that we met most of them in the casino (uh, cause we spent an awful lot of time there) we would probably be better off. See, TheBoy discovered what fun blackjack is, and so spent a lot of money on his new hobby. I'm not innocent here, either, but an addictive personality shouldn't be playing blackjack is all I'm saying.

Anywho, here are some pictures and then I'm going back to work. I still haven't checked my work voicemail though I've been back since yesterday and therefore have no idea how many messages are waiting for me and quite frankly, really don't want to know.





Here is the cruiseline's private island. TheBoy and I did some snorkeling here which was lots of fun since we got to see fishies and stuff. I like fishies. However, it was completely overcast while we were there and the sun just came out again when we got on the little boat to bring us back to the cruise ship. Suck.



We went to the Altun Ha Mayan ruins in Belize. This was awful cool, though would have been better had it not been pouring when we got there. I didn't feel well to boot, so it was a shitty, shitty day and I wish I could have enjoyed the ruins more. Pyramids is cool, yo.




Next up - Grand Cayman where we visited the Sea Turtle Farm. Piles of turtles, everywhere. The bestest place ever. I took a skillion pictures of turtles and we even got to hold one and take pictures. If I felt comfortable putting my picture up here, you would see a very happy girl holding up a very pissed off-looking turtle. Awesome.





Here is Dunn's River Falls in Jamaica. So cool. They have groups of people that climb up the waterfall, which I would have LOVED to do had I known that that's what you do at Dunn's River Falls. I should have worn a bathing suit; I wasn't going to do it in my clothes because the thought of being soggy for the rest of the day really did not excite me. Eh, next time.




And here is a towel in the shape of an elephant. We got three of these guys over the course of the trip. Found them waiting in our room when we stumbled in late at night after throwing all of our money at the blackjack dealers. The first one was a snake-type thing, this was the second, and last was a gorilla. They really are cute and the cruise staff taught a class on board one day on how to make them. Because I guess some people want to make all of their towels at home into animals. You know. For parties. Or profit. Whatever.

That, in a very small nutshell, was my vacation. Obviously there are loads more pictures and if I didn't feel like I would totally get fired for sharing a picture of myself, I would just post a link to my online album. I might also do this if people liked looking at other people's vacation photos. Which I know they don't. So I won't bother you.


Also, thanks for the lovely birthday messages and such while I was away, that was really nice of everyone. My birthday was lovely, actually. It was one of the only days that the sun was out, so TheBoy and I spent the day laying on the sun deck of the boat and swimming in the pool. I've never done that for my November birthday, so that was pretty special. For dinner we went to the French restaurant on board and I had the server light a bit of duck on fire for me. Hotcha.

Back to work now, before the e-mails drown me and paperwork comes crashing on top of me. You know.