Endless Summer Tiny World

I’ve been back on ship for almost two full weeks and so far it is going well. As always in my two first weeks I keep wondering what am I doing here? But that generally goes away after a little while! Haha! I am working at the coffee bar on ship which means that I have to be awake and at work at 6 am everyday so that is starting to get a little rough, but I’m hoping this saturday I’ll change bars to one that is open only at night!

I am living all the way forward on ship which means lots of walking but that is always good for shaving off those vacation pounds!! Haha! I live with a bar server, and it was just me and her for a week which was extremely nice, and now with a waiter. They are both nice people and good roommates. I also have jen baker just one floor above me which is great to be so close so we can hang out! Chelsy and I are trying to get back in shape so we hav been trying to spend a good amount of time in the gym on my nights off! Also Chelsy and I got a car yesterday in Hilo and headed up the shore a little ways to some pretty lookout points and a couple parks. We stopped on the way back for a sandwich and found the best thing ever: a disposable grill!! It is a grill w built in charcoal and when you’re done cooking you throw it away! It is great so we can have bbq’s! And this thursday were gonna grill on the beach! All in all it was a good day.., just nice and relaxing and seeing a new area!

So things are good so far! I’m staying excited and hoping I an buy my ticket, or at least the first part of my ticket to travel soon! The dates when I go all depend on September’s wedding, but I’m hoping to know all that soon!! Keep in touch everyone!

I then headed off to Cabo with my BFF Lindsey for a week. We stayed actually in San Jose del Cabo about 20 miles from the city of Cabo. We had a great time relaxing and just having a blast! We went on a snorkeling trip and saw stingrays jumping out of the water… that was amazing! I didn’t even know that they could jump out of the water like that. We also went to what we think was the bast place in the area to snorkel, Santa Maria Bay. It was a really fun trip. We spent an afternoon having a beer or two up in San Jose del Cabo and they actually shut down the town square on Sunday night and we watched the locals singing different songs. One day we took the local Mexican Public Bus and went to Chileno Bay. It was a really pretty beach with probably some great snorkeling except the waves were too big and crazy so they shut the beach down to swimmming. But the rest of the Beach had built in palm umbrellas that Lindsey and I curled up and enjoyed. We had a great time and had lots of fun at all the shows and local bars and of course it was just great to be on another vacation with my BFF!

The rest of this vacation has been spent at my dad’s. This weekend I convinced my sister to come down and visit with her Fiance and we all had a blast. I have a couple more days here before going back to Duluth for one night for my flight back to Hawaii.

It has been a great vacation! I couldn’t have asked for it to be any better. I caught up with so many people, and of course there are always more I could visit and more time to spend with those I saw, but at least I got to see all those people I was lucky enought to see! I am looking forward to seeing everyone back on ship again, but am definitely going to miss everyone back home. My sister is also possibly moving her wedding up! yay!! So I may end up on ship a little longer than planned, but not too much, only a month or two but only time will tell, and we will find out when she actually sets a date!

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