Thursday, October 21, 2010

More Hawaii Advendtures

LEts see, where did I leave off......ha ha I only finished talking about getting on the plane. The plane ride went well. I took a sleeping pill, but really only slept for like fifteen minutes.There were to many things going on to let myself fall asleep. I watched toy story three, except I don't exactly remember what happens because of taking the sleeping pill... It was a really rough landing in my opinion, even rb said it seemed rough to what he was used to. We got off the plane and took a shuttle over to our hotel. our hotel was litterally across the street from the air port. Dave, Wendy and Baby Jacen came over and brought us pizza. It was really fun to see them, especially baby J because RB and I had never met him.

Not much happens in this video. There is cute baby J, and then Jeff tries to photo bomb, but didn't realize it was a video:)

We actually fell asleep really early, like 6:30pm. In reality it was 9:30 Utah time. We didn't sleep the best because there was a freeway right next to the hotel. I didn't realize how loud cars could be until they kept me up half that night. Jeff and Cindy left with Wendy and Dave to stay at their place for the night. In the morning RB's dad got a rental car and we were off to Pearl Harbor! I had never been to pearl harbor before, it was really cool. We took a ferry over to where the USS Arizona had sunk. I didn't know this, but they didn't ever recover it, they just left it down there. you can see parts of the boat sticking up above the water. There were a lot of interesting things to look at and read about.

After pearl Harbor we were off to the Pier to be dropped off and wait for RB's dad to go pick up the others in Laie. We were actually waiting for a very long time before we got on the cruise ship. I imagined it differently. I thought there would be this nice waiting area, but we were basically just in this big warehouse. When rb's dad had got back from turning the rental car in, we finally got in line to be checked on board. There were security checks just like the airport. We each got our own little card that basically did everything. It was connected to our credit cards, opened our rooms, was used to check us in and out of the boat everyday. You could just walk around with that card and use it for everything. they made it to easy to spend money:) Don't worry I didn't go overboard with spending or anything. I actually didn't buy much at all on the ship. I bought one virgin smoothie, just to try it out, then one night I bought advil because I had a headache. They had many different restaurants to chooose from. Some of them cost extra and we never ended up going to them, because there were plenty that didn't charge any extra. It was really fun to always order appetizers and desert. We were in a fancy restaurant and I order a strawberry soulfle (spelling) with my dinner, and I asked the waiter to bring it with my meal instead of after.....The waiter thought that was funny, but I just told him that I actually wanted to have dessert instead on getting stuffed before I could get any. The soufle was super good, and he served it all fancy!! After I had mine, almost every one at our table ordered one for dessert form themselves:)

Alright I feel like there is so much to tell, but now my fingers are getting tired from typing. So I guess I will have to continue telling you about my vacation later.

bye

The above video is us sitting and waiting in the warehouse looking building



This video is the dancers we watched while we were waiting in line to get our cards for the cruise ship

Baby Jacen

This is my nephew baby Jacen! This is one of the biggest reasons for going to Hawaii!! He is so fun!! He was constantly smiling!!!!
I thought this picture was funny and cute!!!




Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Not sure what the title of this one should be. I am debating between "physically here, but not mentally" or just plain "ARG".

I am back from Hawaii and survived the plane trip over and back! I did so many things in Hawaii that I don't know if I will get to them in this blog. I would usually write it all, but when I came home I found out that my biology teacher had moved my test up to this week instead of next and I already had a paper due today that I hadn't even started! So the paper is almost done and I have tons of studying to do and it is already 6 at night. I know you are probably thinking "stop writing on your blog and get to work"! I need a break and I am about to through my computer out the window! Microsoft word just froze up on me and I haven't saved in a while and think I just lost the end of my paper...........that was why I wanted to label this blog "ARG"!! The time change from Hawaii to Utah has really thrown me off, I want to sleep in until one, but then my body just doesn't want to go to sleep until 1 am!! My days seem really short! Yes I am complaining a lot..........sorrry!

Hawaii was awesome, and the cruise going to four different islands in Hawaii was Awesome!!RB and I packed up on thursday night and left Friday morning for the airport. Our flight left at around eleven am. We met up with Jeff, Cindy, and RB's parents at the airport. We all had the same flight over to Hawaii. That made me less nervous :) We flew on a 767......I only know that because of RB. I was so nervous before getting on the plane. I was shaking!! SO as we walked passed the flight attendant my mother in law mentioned that this was basically my first time flying. ( yes, it wasn't quite my first time, but I haven't flown since I was way younger and all I remember about it was being scared to death the whole time!). The flight attendant got all excited and pulled out a set of wings and then gave them to me to pin on my jacket. Then she went up to the cockpit and had me follow her to meet the pilot and the copilot! It was fun! I asked if I could take a picture of them and they said that it would be better it I sat in the pilot seat and got one of me!! They even put the pilot hat on me!! It was so fun, and it made me so much less nervous knowing I had such nice and awesome pilots!!!
That is going to be it for now......I have to go and study. I tried to upload some pictures but that will have to wait because it didn't work