Thoughts From the Road

* We are in VA after spending the night half way in NC last night.
* Maggie had surgery this morning and I am soo sad that we are away from her but all went well and I left her lots of treats so they could spoil her!

* There is still lots of snow on the ground around here and in all the fields (which there are a lot)

* We are in Charlottesville VA~a cute little college town.

* We are thinking about going to Monticello in the morning

* South Carolina smells~I have noticed this before when in South Carolina!  They should look into some mass air freshining!

* I have been in 5 states in two days.
* I stopped at a TJMaxx in Gastonia, NC today!  I left with nothing :(

* Virginia is known as the "State for Lovers"! Interesting!

* We had a great dinner and drinks at a brewery down the street tonight with my parents and one of      my brothers best friends.  Great conversation and great food and drinks!

* One of the conversations was that "the wedding is about the BRIDE and GROOM~exactly I can't agree more but I will get on this soap box later!
* The friend that ate with us uses the company Cas works for for his teleconferencing !

* I can't wait for the party tomorrow night!  Their are fraternity brothers lined up to tell stories and it is an open bar!  This should greatly amuse me!

* I learned something cool tonight~one of their fraternity brothers* We are in VA after spending the night half way in NC last night.

* There is still lots of snow on the ground around here and in all the fields (which there are a lot)

* We are in Charlottesville VA~cute little college town

* I learned something new tonight.  A fraternity brother of Tom's drowned while they were all together at a lake and my step brother was the last one to stop diving to look for him after everyone had worn out and he also wrote a check to build a memorial for him in front of their fraternity house at Alabama!

* My heart is braking for the people in Haiti!  I wish I could go help!

* I had to stomach Al Sharpton and Rush Limbaugh on the news this morning~bleh, Rush said we are only helping out because Obama is black and so are the Haitians!  Wow what stupidity.  I have watched news in NC and VA today and boths states were missing people from their states that had happened to be there for school/work/charity.  So for his info half the people that we are helping are Americans moron!  And even if they were not it is the right thing to do as humans!  Let me jump off of my soap box of closed minded people.
UPDATE~The news said that 45,000 Amercians were in the country of Haiti!
* I am excited about going to Richmond after this to see my cousin!

* I will change my background when I get back :)

* Oh and I did get my video done!  I did ALL the work and Cas burned it to a DVD! :)

* I am getting ready to crawl in this comfy bed at the hotel and watch "The Real Housewives of the OC" on our flat screen tv! Nighty~Night!

P.S. Also LG gave me an award of sorts last week so I will post that and share my answers to my quetsions that go with it when I get back!  Thanks Laura

Haaa-larious Happenings-This Stuff Really Happens on a Cruise People!

I finally have the 900 plus pictures from our trip downloaded since we had to buy a external hard drive last night because our computer was FULL! Yeah I take a lot of pictures! I took a couple of videos on board as well and thought I would give you some humor to start off your weekend!

The first three videos were taken at the past guest reception. Oh yeah we were invited by special invitations! Please focus on the precious older man in the tan jacket! I cracked up watching him! What a good sport he was! Sorry for the poor video and the fact that the camera moves around a lot! There may or may not have been free drinks at this function!

Pah-leeze watch right when they say "Hands on Your Knee's"

Again sorry for the quality of this video and we also tried to rotate it but had no luck.....but let me preface it for you! A couple of nights the head and assistant waiters put on shows for the guests at dinner. Also let me mention that most of them are from Indonesia, etc so their singing accents are pretty funny! On our last cruise they sang "That's Amore'" so when "Apple Bottom Jeans" started blaring out of the speakers and that was followed by 100 plus Indonesians singing and dancing I thought I was going to fall out! I was soo not prepared for that! I would like to add that they all are so happy to be there and I know they do not make nearly enough to have to dance to this!

I have got to invest in a Flip video camera! This summer Amazon had them for $40 (I knew that because a money saving blog posted it!) and I thought about getting it because it was so cheap and now I wish I had!

Hope you all get a good laugh!

Maybe They Had Too Much Salt Water

In between vacuuming dust bunnies the size of cats and sucking up spiders webs (it is amazing what inhabits your home while you are gone) I thought I would get in a couple of blogs. I just would like to point out that if you have low self esteem take a cruise! There is always some one on board that will make you think things could be worse. I am not talking about folks....I am just sayin! So I was in the main restaurant the other day waiting in line at the ice cream station....yep they have 24 hour soft serve ice cream! That in itself is just joyous but anyways these two ladies were in front of me and the first lady was fixin' her cone and told her friend that she should try that one too as it was the only one that had Strawberry (this one was Yogurt and the other two were Ice Cream). The friend saw the signs that said Fat Free Strawberry and Fat Free Chocolate under each of the respective flavors and she sighed and said yeah but I don't really like Fat Free. Well the middle one (as anyone with a Kindergarten certificate knows) just said Strawberry and Chocolate. The friend serious (dumb) as can be looked at the other friend and said well this one, pointing to the middle isn't FAT FREE! So the other friend trotted on over and made her a cone! The machine didn't need a sign~She did! Really? Everyone knows that what comes out of the middle is from the left and right sides right????? So that would make the middle FAT FREE!
Moving on......when we got on the cruise we headed to each lunch because that is really all you can do because they are still getting rooms ready. They play the news in the main restaurant. I noticed it was the news out of Denver and then they have something like CNN or something of that nature going which also has the time at the bottom from the Denver time zone. I do not know how they decide on which time zone, news to broadcast, I guess maybe it has something to do with what signals they pick up, etc. but anywho......we were at dinner one night and a couple that we ate with that was from Arkansas said they had been talking to another couple earlier in the day from Denver none the less and they commented on "How cool it is that they personalize the news in your room from where you are from!" Dear Lord.....do you really think that is someones job to sit there on the day everyone boards and program everyone's room to get their own personal news! Wow!

There is also a little top 10 of questions that have been asked on Carnival ships. Our Cruise Director told them at a show as our last Cruise Director dis as well! Here are a few:
* What do they do with the ice sculpture when it melts?
*Does the elevator go from the front of the boat to the back?
*Do you have generators on board?
*How do I know which pictures are mine?

Some people..............

From Ship to Shore

We are on dry land! Sigh......I could have stayed gone for another week! We arrived home around midnight Saturday night after stopping off in Gulf Shores to eat dinner. We have basically slept since we have been home as we were very tired! We met some great people and ate and ATE a TON! I am slowly working on getting pictures downloaded (I took close to 1,000!). I will also do posts on what we did and where we went. I was a slacker and did not post on the Bahamas cruise from May! I will be working on all this in between the mounds of laundry and sweeping up and mopping and so on.........the cats have been here all week furring things up (Thank you Jason and Renea and Drew for checking on them)! So needless to say I have a good bit to do and I am moving slow (I am 30 now you know...can't do as much as I could when I was in my 20's)! Hope everyone has had a great week and I have already been reading some blogs from the bed on Cas's blackberry! So much happens in a week!

P.S. I will also be working on my recipe blog and Maggie's blog (with her help of course) when she returns home tomorrow! We have missed her sooooo much and I have some fun things in store for her tomorrow!

Cusseta to Cozumel

I don't have much time as we are on our way out (trying to be anyways!) We are leaving today for New Orleans and will spend the weekend there before our cruise to Mexico leaves from New Orleans on Monday. I will be eating beignet's for my birthday! Yay! I have so many blogs to post and just haven't had time but I will sit down and work on it when I return! I will for sure have lots of pictures to post. Hopefully just great stories to share too! We are very very sad that we have to leave Maggie sitting in the vet for over a week and I have already told her that the first cruise that is for animals we are going to be on the maiden voyage! I wish I could sneak her on! Hope you all have a great week! I will have a lot of blogs to read when I get back! I don't like not being able to have a laptop with us. TTFN!