I Just Walked Through a Blanket of B.O.

Journalist: Who can defeat the Americans? They are so strong.

Hassan Ibrahim: The Americans will defeat the Americans. I have ultimate faith in the American Constitution.

-Control Room

Sorry I haven't updated recently. I guess it's just because I'm a lazy ass. Plus I was gone for three days for orientation at UNT. It went alright, I guess. I didn't go to your typical 2-3 day orientation. This one was for transfer students and only lasted about 6 hours including a lunch break. I never like going into situations where I'm not comfortable; this being a perfect example. It's pathetic how self concious I am. I'm not a shy person, but I'm definitely not an outgoing person . I watch people like Mary who can conjure an interesting conversation with a wall and I'm jealous. I'm ridiculously picky in my process of choosing people I associate with making it that much harder for me to talk to people I don't know. God, I need to get a grip and open up before I leave for Denton soon...wish me luck.

Anyways...orientation was pretty quick and smooth. (like sex with your mom) It was sooo much more organized than the orientation at UTSA. (no offense, Alex) I feel a bit more comfortable with the thought of attending UNT now. I think I'll enjoy it.

It's sort of weird to go back and look at the cruise pictures because it seems like last year when I was gone, but in reality it was only a few weeks back. So here are some more photos, bitches.

Picking up where we left off last: After more than a few rum punches on the sailboat, I was a little tipsy. I don't look like a tourist at all in this picture! (bleeding with sarcasm)


Happy Birthday to me! These were outside of our room when I woke up.


Next arrival: St. Maarten. It was a little dreary that day, but I spent most of my time under water.


Most everyone on the ship went shopping on whatever island we stopped at, but we weren't retarded, so we went scuba diving!


Father and son...this is a wonderful family photo. I know , I know, my dad was probably mad that I wasn't smiling..........


Self-contained underwater-breathing apparatus!!!


On the boat before getting our scuba lessons. The instructors were from England, New Zealand, and Trinidad. Interesting mix of accents. Sorry I don't have any pictures from the actual dive. Our bags got thrown in a closet on the boat, and I didnt' have my camera.


Kimberly and I at Sterling's Steakhouse on the ship. My birthday dinner, BIATCH!


Whoever doesn't have a portable DVD player, needs to get one. This was my best friend on the plane and ship when I got bored. Guess what we were watching!


At 'Movies Under the Stars'. Some nights, the ship would let you reserve some seats by the giant movie screen and watch a movie. We saw Meet the Fockers. I had already seen it and hated it, but the experience was cool nonetheless.


Laura and Kevin


Our ship could kick your ass!


Yeah, it was $11 bucks, but it's a fucking monkey coconut drink holder for Christ's sake! I've never see anything cooler...


Kim before we went to the night club. She threw up later on that night...ha


Breakfast, bitch. I probably ate my body weight the entire trip.


Okay, so the day before we are supposed to make our last stop, we get an announcement from the captain saying that somebody was sick/injured and we had to detour to Nassau, Bahamas. We were supposed to go to the Princess cruise-owned island, but we needed to get to a hospital. Apparently some guy fell down the casino staircase and injured his head pretty badly. He hadn't regained conciousness still when they took him off the ship. If I had to die or get hurt really badly, I'd probably want to do it on vacation. Much better than dying at work, or in a traffic jam or something.


The dock


Holy shit! It's the Atlantis resort!


On our way to a public beach. Fruit anybody?


Some bitches in the beaches


We took a taxi to this beach which ended up being college freshman party central. They had a Corona stand set up by us w/ a bunch of screaming frat guys having push up contests. We ended up leaving after an hour or so.


We rented snorkel shit, but the water didn't have anything to look at except beer bottles and sea weed. Gaaay...


We decided to taxi over to the Atlantis hotel/resort for the last few hours we had left in Nassau. YAY! These horses were playing in the water, and then they all grew wings and decided to fly away. It was really weird.


Oooooh, aaaaaah!





The Atlantis has its own aqarium!


Best picture ever! One of the few shots I got without a glare from the flash. Feel free to steal this photo from me and use it as a background, thieves.


There was this freaking huge mantaray with a 6-7 ft wingspan in the water, but I could never get a shot of if poking its fins out of the water...damn.


That's all for now, I can probably fit the rest of the cruise pics in one last post. Laters for now!