December 11, 2011 – Headed Home

Well, I think my allergies knew we were getting back to America, because I could not sleep due to my sore throat.  So, I had to deal with disembarking with no sleep.
I got up and hit breakfast.  Then I sat around the room for a while because I was up early.  We all met down at the ice rink and waited to be called to disembark.  We were suppose to be called at 10:30, but they were running about 15 minutes late.  We finally got to start getting off the boat around 10:45am.  Once we were off the boat, we had to wait in a long line in the terminal.  We waited in line for about 45 minutes before we even got a porter to get our luggage.  Then we got into another line to get thru customs.  Once we got thru customs, we loaded the bus and were finally on the road by 12:30pm.  It is going to be a long trip home on the bus.  We probably won’t get in till around midnight.
So, it was just before midnight when we pulled into town.  I was glad to be home, but very sad to be back to reality.  I found out the person I love desperately, I missed every day I was gone, and thought of every minute has moved on. My heart is broken, once again, in a thousand pieces.  How can he tell me he loves me right before the cruise, and a week later have a date.  I can’t even think about dating anyone else.  I love him. Love never seems to be enough.  I’m tired of hurting.  I’m tired of crying.  Life will go on without the person who I believed was the love of my life, my sole mate, and my best friend.
I’m headed to bed.  Have a long day ahead of me. I’ve got to get my house set back up after taking everything apart for the carpet cleaners. I’ve got to unpack and get all that stuff organized. I’ve got to pick up Baxter and make sure everything is set up here so that he doesn't come home and continue to pee on the carpet.  The I’ve got to run to Hutch and pick up Alowishus.  He is the only one who can help with this pain. He will curl up in my arms while I watch TV and snuggle up next to me while I sleep.  He is the only man who will be in my life for a little while.  I’m just tired of getting hurt.  Love is so great when its great and so absolutely horrible when its bad. What’s the point.

December 10, 2011 – Day 7

Well, I spent 1.5 hrs today writing day 5 and 6’s blog.  I figured out where the old people hang out during the day.  The lounge I chose that had a hot spot at mostly old folks playing cards and scrapbooking.  Then I ran around the boat trying to get all my errands ran.  I hit the photo area to try to pick out my photos from the trip.  After speaking to 2 less than helpful employee’s that didn’t speak very good English, I decided to meet the gang for lunch. 

After lunch, we went to the final showing of the ice rink show.  It was pretty good.  The rink was much smaller than I expected.  I don’t know how they got up enough speed to do any of the jumps.  There were quite a few spills due to the fact that we had 10ft seas and the boat was rolling pretty good.

After the ice show, we went back to the photo area.  This time I had back up and between the 3 of us, we figured out the best packages.  I purchased 4 8x10 photos and got a free leather portfolio with a picture of the boat on the front.  The portfolio only holds 2 photos so I’ll have to frame the other two.

By then, I realized it was already 4:30pm and it was time to get ready for dinner.  After my shower, I realized that I wasn’t going to have much free time between activities tonight to pack.  So, I ran around packing up all my stuff.  I had brought an empty bag to fill with all my souvenirs.  All the rest of my bags were stuffed.

It was the last night in the main hall for dinner.  Shawn, Shara, and I all went to have dinner.  The rest of the gang decided to show up for dinner to say good bye to our wait staff.  Then they went to Johnny Rockets for dinner. We got most of the group in a group photo with our wait staff.

After dinner was the final farewell show.  We had another comedian.  Then the singers and dancers performed.  Then they had a large group of the staff parade in and get up on stage.

After the show, I went back to my room to finish my packing and get my luggage outside into the hall.  As I was taking my stuff out to the hall, I had been keeping my foot in the door, since I didn’t have my key on me.  At one point, I guess I forgot why I was keeping my foot there, and locked myself out.  Luckily, the room service lady was walking down the hall and was able to get me back into my room.

I met up with everyone at the Lotus lounge for the last night of karaoke.  I got to say good bye to my favorite waiter, Florentine.  He was always there with a nice strong drink whenever I wanted one.  To the right is a picture of me and Melissa at karaoke. After karaoke, we went back to the main theater for the late night comedy show.  The comedian was pretty funny, but that also could have been because of the lager sized crown and coke my other favorite waitress brought me that was mostly crown.

The boat was pretty dead after the show. We went to the Dragon’s Lair where DJ Jorge was  rocking out some techno.  Me and Pattie were the only ones dancing. So we decided to see where the party was on the boat.  We found it at the Champagne bar where it was Salsa night.  It was pretty lively so Pattie, Shawn and I sat and watched everyone dance.  They shut that band down so we had to find a new place to hang out.  We decided to hit the Promenade Cafe to get some pizza and cookies.  The three of us sat around chatting till about 2am. Then we decided to hit the sack.

December 9, 2011 – Day 6 Cozumel, Mexico

Today we got to sleep in a little, thankfully.  I got up around 8am and we met for breakfast around 8:45am.  We got off the ship and started looking around the shopping areas.  We found a cab and got a ride to downtown where there were even more shops.  The weather was cloudy and a little cool.

We had the taxi driver drop us off at the farthest end of the main strip.  There were so many shops I knew this would be an all day event. It was mostly cloudy and rained off and on all day.  It seemed like every time we were in a shop, it would stop raining. Then when we decided to walk outside and go to the next shop, it would rain.  Nick decided to get a tattoo, so we tracked him down and watched that for a little bit.  Then we ate at Fat Tuesday’s.  The food was nothing to write home about, so I won’t.  Then, more shopping.  We hit Senior Frogs and got some of their big drinks.  Then we hit their souvenir shop.  They had some pretty good sales, so I picked up some shirts.  While we were in this store, it was pouring down rain. We wondered around the mall that Senior Frogs is in for a while.  Once the rain was more manageable, we found a cab and headed back to the terminal.  As Erica, Scott, and I were headed back to the terminal, we saw Nick along side the road, so we picked him up.  We had gotten separated from Tim and Sara, but figured we find them at the boat.  We were standing in the area where customs controlled entry to the terminal, and Sara and Tim showed up, but they had lost their camera bag that had their Seapass cards in it.  Luckily they had their passports, but it still wasn’t easy for them to get back in the terminal.  A few more check points later, and we were all on board.

It was another formal dinner night.  I got to wear my favorite dress.  We got lots of photos taken.  Tonight was the last night for photos. I was even getting more comfortable taking photos by myself. After dinner and photos, we went to the show.  The group, the Unexpected Boys, were singing.  It was a tribute to Johnny Vallen (or something like that).  They were a quartet group that sung that guys songs.  The were a lot of fun, and it didn’t hurt that they were all pretty cute.  We hooked up with Melissa and her group at the show.

After the show, we all went to the “Quest” game in Studio B, which is the Ice Rink.  The was the most hilarious game all week on the ship.  Our group team captains were Melissa and Scott.  The announcer would ask for an item from the audience and our captains had to retrieve it and take it to him.  He asked for the female captain to bring him a piece of fresh fruit.  People from our team began throwing fruit at Melissa.  They asked for a man wearing women's lipstick.  I had my lip gloss, so I applied it to Scott’s lips and he ran up to Paul Rudd (the host) with his lips all puckered.  He asked for anyone with a piercing other than in the ears.  I was sitting on the 2nd row so I hurdled the front row and the railing, grabbed the number, and went up and showed Paul my belly button ring.  I knew it would be useful someday. They asked for 3 pairs of men’s pants. The guys in our group began to take their pants off.  Then they asked for a pair of socks with a hole in it.  Melissa’s husband, John, took his sock off and she bit at it to cause a hole.  Then Paul came over to our group and told her that a sock has a hole in it and that’s the only way to get it on.  It was so funny.  Then, the last challenge to to have our male captain, Scott, take his shirt off and put on a women’s bra, shoes, earrings, lip stick and a purse.  We were able to find all those things and dress Scott up.  Our group did not end up winning, but it was the best time.

We ended the night at the Dragon’s Lair with some dance music.  I got to bed around 1am.  I slept in till about 9:30 this morning.  Today is going to be a lazy day just trying to get everything finalized.  There are lots of sales on the boat.  I’ve got to find all the pictures I want to purchase. I will probably start packing before dinner.  Melissa’s group has asked me to be on their dodge ball team for the guest vs. staff game at 2pm.

December 8, 2011 – Day 5 Belize City, Belize

I’ve been getting a little behind on my blogs since I’ve had some crazy long days and long late nights.  We were in Belize today.  We had an excursion planned so most of our day was organized.  We were tendered in to the city, which was about a 20-25min ride.  We saw a few dolphins in the water, but they were too far away to get good photos of.

Once we were off the boat, we jumped in a bus and headed out of town.  It was about 37 miles and a little over an hr to get to the location where we would be cave tubing and zip-lining.  Our tour guide, Roy, gave us local info and history along the way. We arrived at our destination where we would begin our day cave tubing. We got our tube and helmet with a light and went for a 30 min walk thru the rain forest. Shortly into the walk we had to cross the river.  They gave us a rope for balance, but the current wasn’t too bad.  The river is spring fed, and not by a hot spring, so the water was pretty cold.  Not as cold as some rivers I’ve been in in Colorado, but cold enough that I didn’t want to go for a swim.  We continued our hike thru the rain forest.  We crossed 2 more portions of the river.  These didn’t have ropes for balance and the current was much stronger.  

We finally arrived at our put in spot, which was between 2 cave openings.  After getting acclimated to the cold water and getting nipped a few times by some little minnows, we stated getting our tubes together to head into our cave.  They put Scott and Erica in front and tied them together.  Then they got the next couple tied together, and they had to put their feet up under Scott and Erica’s arms.  Then we put Tim and Nick behind them.  They weren’t tied together, but they had to hook their feet under the people in front of them.  Then since Sara and I have the longest legs, they put us in back and tied us together.  We had to stick our feet under Nick and Tim's arms, but since we were in back, we didn’t have anyone under our arms.  Only waterproof cameras were allowed.  Lucky me, I had one.  We traveled in our 8-man formation into the cave.  It was completely dark.  The only light was our helmet lights. My camera did a pretty good job taking photos of in inside of the cave.  after we exited the cave, they unhooked us and we were able to free tube on the river.  Right when they unhooked us, Nick immediately ends up and bush of trees along the side of the river.  The free tubing was a blast.  We only got to do it for a little while before we were at the end of our cave tour.

After tubing, they fed us a traditional Mayan lunch.  I had a hamburger.  Then our tour guide came and got us for our turn on the zip-line.  We got all geared up and got on our first platform for more instructions.  Then we went on our first short zip-line.  We got gloves with a leather strap on the right had so you can grab the metal cable and break by pulling down. After a short climb up a mountain, we got to our next platform. This was one than you didn’t have to break until you got close to the next platform.  It was pretty fast and right over the top of the trees.  I thought it would be cool to look around and see the scenery, but mostly you are holding on for dear life and watching the tour guide because he would tell you when to break and if you are coming in too fast.  For the most part, it was pretty awesome.  The straps I had around my legs could have been more comfortable, but what can ya do.  I don’t have any pictures of me from the zip-line, but there will be on other people’s cameras.  I’ll upload them to Picasa when I get them from Erica.

After our excursion, we headed back to town.  It was about 45 minutes before we had to get back on the boat, so I did a little shopping in the shops by the boat.  I have made sure to get my magnet at all the locations, but mostly I keep buying stuff for other people.  It is hard not to when you see something perfect.

Tonight's dinner was colorful casual.  The show was the Royal Caribbean dancers and singers.  Then, most of my group hit the sack, so I tagged along with Melissa and her group. It was 70’s themed night. Melissa, Pattie, Missy and I went to the Royal Promenade where they had 70’s dancing.  Got to see some of the staff dressed up as the Village People.  We did a little conga line.  Then we headed up to Ellington's on the 14th deck for an adults only dance. It was suppose to be out in the Solarium, but since the weather was crappy, they moved it to this lounge.  They already had a country music band playing.  We had to cut them short so DJ Jorge and play some good music.  We did some dancing and some drinking.  I had a great time.  I hit the all night pizza joint and got to bed around 330am.

Tomorrow is Cozumel.  We don’t have anything planned so we are just going to wing it.

December 7, 2011 – Day 4 Roatan, Honduras

Today was our first day off the ship for 3 days.  I definitely needed it.  We decided not to do a planned excision at this port.  We weren’t exactly sure what we were going to do, we were just winging it.  It was pouring pretty good when we docked and got off the ship.  The weather in Roatan is kind of like what they say in Kansas, if you don’t like the weather wait a minute because it will change.  However, Roatan is really bad.

We got off the boat while it was pouring rain.  We headed out of the port and got bombarded with tour guides and taxi drivers.  We ran into one that convinced us to go on one of their buses.  We would have a personal driver and tour guide all day and the bus held all 8 of us.  It was only $25/person and it sounded like a great deal.  The morning time was spent shopping and finding all the local shops. Since it wasn’t a scheduled thing they would take us to all the local spots.  The only thing fancy about this town was the little area where we docked, otherwise, you definitely know it is a third world country.

After shopping, we headed for a private resort beach.  Our tour guide Grace, told us they don’t have any free beaches they all are owned by private resorts.  During our sales pitch at the dock, we were promised monkeys.  Grace said they weren’t any monkeys on the beach, but she would find me some.  We wound up at a zip-line company that actually had 3 little monkeys. They were tethered so we were actually able to go up and play with them.  I have a feeling PETA doesn’t have much say in this country.  It was the highlight of my trip so far.  I got to play with the bigger monkey first.  It had a good grip with its hands, feet and tail.  For some reason he liked to bite my elbows.  I probably have Ebola now.  It climbed all over me.  For some reason at one point it wanted to grab on to my nose with one hand and try to stick his other hand in my mouth.  It was so funny.  It climbed all over my head. Then I played with the baby one they had.  He was just as cute, but he liked to pull my pony tail.  At one point, Shara, was playing with the bigger monkey, when the bigger one that had been sleeping decided to jump on her back.  It was kind of funny to watch all the employee’s deploy in all directions.  They told her not to make any sudden moves and to just walk away from him.  I guess he’s a little testy.  Maybe they would retire him.  He didn’t cause us any problems and they employees were able to get him off her back.  It was very hard to leave them.  I could have played with them all day.

Next we went to the private beach.  It was only $10/person to play on the beach.  We got a little hut and some beach chairs.  By this time, the weather had gotten better.  The sun was out and the humidity was up.  They had a live DJ.  We started off the day with a dance off.   It was Ericka, Sara and I along with Melissa and her group.  So, all Wichita people. Somehow, we all ended up at the same place.  Since no guys would volunteer, we had to buddy up with the other girls.  I am pretty sure it came down to me and my partner and Melissa and her partner, but it was a “nobody loses” kind of place so we all got free drinks.

The beach was more of a walled off lagoon, so I decided to swim over to the other side.  It was about 100 yards.  As I was on that side, it started to get cloudy and began to pour down rain.  While I was mid-swim back, it stopped.  Then the wind picked up. Then 20 minutes later it was perfectly calm. Weird.

The resort also had a chlorine pool.  I decided that would be the best time to try out my new water proof, freeze proof, shatter proof camera.  They had a little water slide and I was able to video tape my ride down the rock slide they had at that pool.  The camera worked out pretty well, except when I hit the curve on the slide he hit the light of day and the camera couldn't adjust soon enough so it kind of whited out for a few seconds.  Otherwise, it worked really well.  I took some underwater shots of me and Shara landing in the water from the slide.  We spent about 3 hrs at the resort before we headed back to the ship to reboard. I did buy a few things.  I don’t think I’ll have too much time to shop in Belize tomorrow, but I’m sure we’ll get our fill of shopping in Cozumel.  Maybe I’ll actually buy myself something there.

I decided to call it an early night tonight.  I got all dressed up and went to dinner.  I was not at all impressed with anything I ate tonight.  It can’t be great every night, I guess.  After dinner, we were standing outside the dining room.  Before dinner, the Plummers and I got our photos taken. While we were standing outside by the photographer, he came over and asked if I would take some individual photos.  He said I had pretty hair and wanted to try something out on me.  He was cute so I obliged. He had me face away from him and on the count of three, he wanted me to turn around real quick and make my hair swing around.  I thought it was pretty cheesy at first, but the picture actually turned out really cool. Tonight was the ice show, but I knew I wasn’t going to be able to stay up too late and get up super early for our excursion in the morning.  I hit the internet cafe to finish up this blog and upload it along with yesterday’s.  There are a lot of photos, so I don’t know if I will be uploading them.  I’ll see if I can just upload the monkey photos, cuz they are super funny.

Tomorrow we start pretty early.  We meet for our excursion at 7:55, so breakfast is at 7:15am. We are going to be in Belize.  We have a zip-line, cave tubing adventure planned.  It goes most of they day so we probably won’t get to shop too much.  Each of the ports have their own little shopping areas, so we might be able to hit those places.  I really like to get authentic items from where I’m at and it seemed like most of the stores in Roatan consisted of stuff that “fell off the truck” and were all things I could get in America, just much cheaper.  I’ll keep looking though.  I have lots of souvenirs to buy.

December 6 – Day 3 At Sea

Today was a pretty uneventful day.  I was able to get my internet access working.  At $.55/min, I was able to get online and upload all my photos and blogs in just under 30 min.  I am hoping next time won’t take as long. 

I spent the morning laying around the top deck getting some sun. Well, I got a little sun, but since we are right on top of the equator, I decided to spray SPF 50 all over, regularly.  They had a belly flop contest at the pool. I had pretty good seats overlooking the pool.  I eventually got bored and decided to have lunch.

After lunch, it was back up to the top deck.  More cancer causing rays.  The weather has been beautiful.  My favorite waiter, Florentine (who I now believe might be stalking me) tracked me down for some more Miami Vices. Here is my view from my spot on the deck.  It probably got up to 80 degrees. Only somewhat humid and windy.

We all got dressed up for another yummy dinner.  I had the surf and turf.  I had to have help figuring out how to get the tails off my shrimp.  I don’t really like shrimp that much, but they were really good.  I also had a lasagna.  It was all right.  It wasn’t cheesy enough for me.  Then I finished it up with banana cream pie.

After dinner, we wondered around a little bit.  Sara, Ericka and I got cheesy photos taken by a professional photographer.  They will be so cute. The evening show was the staff singers and dancers.  It was very entertaining to us, but not so much to the old lady sitting next to Nick.  I think she was snoring.  There was no karaoke tonight, but we hit the Lotus Lounge for some “Battle of the Sexes”.  Sara and Melissa (our new friend from community corrections) got to do one of the physical challenges.  They each had to blow up a balloon and pop it using another female at the other end of the stage.  Then Tim and Shawn go up and were given a key chain.  Then they were told they had to stick the keychain between their butt cheeks and carry the keychain to the end of the dance floor and drop it in a cup.  I have a lovely picture of their expressions after they were told this.  Luckily for Tim, the first lady that went got it in, so only Shawn had to attempt it.

Then it was off to bed early, like midnight.  We are docking in Roatan, Honduras in the morning.  We don’t have any excursion planned here so we are just going to wing it.  We’ll probably do some shopping in the AM and hit the beach in the afternoon for some more cancer causing rays.

December 5, 2011 – Day 2 At Sea

I started off the morning at 7am, and hit the gym by 7:30am.  Ran 30 minutes on the treadmill while looking out over the Gulf.  It was pretty interesting to try to run on a treadmill with the waves we had.  I definitely hooked up the stop cord on this run. After the gym, we meet up and had breakfast in the main dining hall.

After breakfast, the girls went to a shopping seminar.  Mostly they talked about the good deals we can get on diamonds and other rare gems.  Not too appealing to a bunch of girls who don’t wear much jewelry.  While we were there, all the boys hit the casino.   Then we met the boys at the hot tub.  It was cloudy and very windy, but Ericka and I went ahead and laid out by the pool sipping our Miami Vice drinks.  Any cloudy, windy, chilly day on a ship in the middle of the Gulf is better than Kansas.

We had lunch at the Windjammer Cafe.  Then after a short emotional breakdown (its been pretty rocky being here without Justin), we hit the top deck for some more sun bathing.  The sun was out, but it was still windy, but we are used to that, right?  Tim informed us that it was 30 deg back home.  Life is good.

Tonight was our first formal dinner night.  I wore my favorite dresses of all my new dresses.  It has a low back and side cut outs.  I got lots of compliments.  We all waited in line to get our professional photos taken.  After we were all photoed out, we headed to dinner.  It was filet night.  I started with a Caesar salad and Oxtail soup.  Pretty good even thought it doesn’t sound like it would be.  Then, I got my steak. I didn’t even have to use my steak knife. After I was done with that, I asked for one more order.  So, after two appetizers and two orders of steak, I couldn’t do two desserts.  I ordered the chocolate soufflé.  Then, the waiter brought out another one, but no one was missing one, so I volunteered to take one for the team.  I was stuffed.

After dinner, it was more photos.  Then we hit the after dinner show.  My new favorite waiter was working, Florentine.  He always says “medication for your vacation”.  He even remembered my name.  He’d been my waiter for karaoke the night before and that afternoon while we were at the pool.  When he brought me my Miami Vice tonight, he had made a little heart out of the straw paper. It was cute.  I know he’s only flirting with me for the tips, but as long as he keeps them doubling up on the rum, its all good.

After the show, we hit the Lotus Lounge for some “Finish that Lyric”.  The Wichita group was really representing.  We had 4 people out of 10 in the contest and 2 were in the top 3.  After that game was more karaoke.  It was a great time.  We hung out with our new friends from the bus.  They are a pretty crazy bunch.  After we thoroughly entertained the crowd, we headed to the late night comedy show.  The guy was hilarious.  It was interactive comedy so he didn’t have a set routine, he just fed off the crowd.  After that was over, it was 1am and we were pooped from all the activities of the day.  Tomorrow is another day at sea.  Hope all is well back in Kansas.  We are definitely representing Kansas here.  We are making people think, “hey, remember that big drunk group from Wichita Ks that was on our cruise, they were crazy fun”.  I signed up for internet between activities tonight, so I hope I can get all this uploaded in the AM.

December 4, 2011 – Day 1

Today we left Houston and headed to Galveston.  It was cloudy and rainy all morning, which is kinda how its been any time I have ever been to Galveston.  There was a lot of waiting around because we left the hotel early expecting some construction that, I guess, we had already went thru. No one had any trouble boarding, so that was good.

Once we got on the ship, we headed straight for the all you can eat buffet.  It was yummy, as expected, with lots of different choices.  After lunch, we decided to explore.  It was still cloudy, rainy and very windy.  We checked out the pool, the fitness center, and a few other neat places.  Then I separated from the group and went to the upper most front deck.  The weather was crap, so not so great for photos.

By this time, we were able to get into our rooms.  Since I had changed my travel partner the room plan had not been changed.  We had to get the single queen bed separated.  Of course, our stateroom attendant didn’t make that request very easy. Anyway, after we got unpacked, we headed down the the main promenade.  None of the shops were open, but they had a free champagne toast.

We had our dinner in the main hall.  I had prime rib.  It was yummy.  There weren’t too many good dessert choices, so I had a chocolate cherry cake.  It was OK.  After we stuffed ourselves, we headed to the opening show.  It was a comedy show, so that was fun.  Then we hit the karaoke bar.  We met up with some other Sedgwick County folks.  Tim and Nick each did a song.  Oddly enough, there were tons of people who wanted to sing, so it was pretty entertaining.  After karaoke, we found a dance club.  It must have still been early because there weren’t too many people there.  I decided to call it a night, cuz I was beat.

Like my last cruise out of Galveston, this one is pretty rough. I can definitely feel the waves.  I haven’t seen the weather reports to see how high the swells are, but they are definitely rocking the boat pretty good.  Tomorrow is a full day at sea.  We haven’t really planned it out, but there seems to be a lot going on.  I’ll probably hit the gym in the morning before breakfast.  Tomorrow night is our first formal dinner.  I’ve been looking forward to that.  I haven’t decided which dress I’ll wear, but since me and Sara have somehow picked out 2 dresses that are very similar (totally separately and without even knowing), we will have to coordinate that. Hopefully, if I have gotten this blog uploaded, I was able to upload all my photos to Picasa.  There should be a link from my blog.

Its That Time Again

Its that time for my yearly vacation.  I’ve been planning this vacation since before we got back from Jackson Hole last year.  I leave on Saturday at 5am on a bus. I am going with a group of friends from my academy class, and a few other friends I’ve made along the way.  We get to Houston Saturday night.  Then we leave Houston Sunday morning and head to Galveston.

The boat leaves at 5pm.  We are going to Honduras, Belize, and Cozumel.  It is a 7 day cruise.  The first 2 days are at sea traveling.  Hopefully I can stay entertained on the boat for 2 straight days.  I will do my best to upload all my photos to my Picasa account and blog daily.  Wireless is somewhat expensive and I kind of want to be unplugged during this vacation.  I’ll probably write my blog and upload my photos to my Netbook, then hit the internet cafe and hop on the internet to upload.  It is $.65/min so I’m going to get on and right back off. I may only get on every other day.  We’ll see.

This week I’ve been pretty busy getting everything organized for me to be off grid for a whole week.  I’ve got to get the apartment cleaned up because the carpet cleaners are coming while I’m gone.  Both creatures will be at a kennel.  I’m pretty sad about sending Alowishus off to a kennel for 11 days. He is so spoiled and likes to be around me.  Hopefully someone there will give him a little affection.  I’ve been pampering myself this week also with a manicure, hair cut, and pedicure.  Got to look good for all those awesome dresses I bought for the trip.