"On the gooooood ship..."

[hikaranko]

as an early celebration for my sister's birthday, we hopped aboard a cruise ship bound for mexico.

O_O

it was a really... big... boat.

so first of all, the rooms were damn nice. even though i had to sleep on a big pull out shelf with a mattress and blankets on it (that made me frikkin' nervous, i was always afraid it was gonna fall). but it was really nice, and every time we came back for dinner there was a set of towels on the bed folded up to look like an animal. first night it was a walrus, then a dog, then an elephant. frikkin' awesome. XD

anyways, ginormous boat. free food. free food all day long, and i think that was my sister Katherine's favorite part of the whole thing. 24 hour pizza *squeal* and the dessert we had every night after dinner - warm chocolate melting cake - OMG YUM. i could've died happy every night for love of that stuff. the food was always good. seriously. yummy yummies all the time.

and the boat was crawling with filipinos. XD like, almost every staff and crew member we interacted with turned out to be filipino. and there was this band in one of the bar places... they were all filipino, and on 2 nights we went to listen to them play ('cause they are really good. one song you've gotta be able to play on the guitar in order to be awesome is definitely Bohemian Rhapsody, just for that crazy guitar solo right before the funny part) and both times they went over to talk to us. the 2nd night we saw them, me and my sisters got to pose on stage with their instruments (i got the lead guitar! *squeeeeeeeeeeal*). waaaaaaaah, awesomeness!

oh yeah, and there was Mexico. we were only on land for all of... 4 or 5 hours. XD we did this "Taste of Mexico" thing, where we were basically taken around Ensanada (the city we were at) to see the sites, hear some history, and then finally, cook up some authentic mexican food. we made salsa, which turned into guacamoli, and then chicken tamales and... oh crap, it was called, um... to... tort... crap, i can't remember. i'm pretty sure the word "torta" was in it, not tortilla obviously, but OH! TOSTADA! i was way off... ^_^;; so that's what we ate. and for "dessert" they made us dance for a little while. the dance instructor was really cute... *blushes fiercely* okay, moving on.

on the boat we did a lot of exploring. there was a big pool on the top deck, and my sisters laid out on stretch bench things there because they wanted to tan. ... it was really hot.  after a while i got frustrated and went back to the room, where it was cooler, and i read.  i suffered very badly from internet withdrawal (booo, the addiction... i blame the RP!! XD), and my dad eventually showed me a little bit of kindness and allowed me a quick fix at the internet cafe. ^_^;;

um... so in a nutshell and out of order, that's pretty much how the cruise went. :P it was fun, overall. disembarking wasn't happy because of all the customs and immigration and whatnot... but that's to be expected when one travels, no?

back on land... my mom bought a tiny Toshiba laptop and my computer is on the road to being fixed. my dad keeps trying to come up with crazy alternative "solutions." like: (in the store) "let's buy this Toshiba laptop, since it's only $500, and then remove its monitor and put it into your computer. then we can get a separate monitor for this computer, and that'll be your new desktop computer. well? what do you think?" uhh... that costs an unnecessary extra $200-$300... and no one would use the desktop if we all have laptops... -_-;; my dad is very bizarre.

but anyways, yeah. hopefully, things'll all work out.

and one final message...

Happy Birthday, Kristina!!! 
Love ya!!