Cabo San Lucas

Our first port was in Cabo San Lucas. This is a place that is a dessert next to the water. It was pretty much built just for cruise ships. There area ton of vendors on the side of the street trying to get you to buy everything they have. My nephew, Jordan was walking on the street and some guy put an iguana on him and he freaked out. Anyhew Matt and I were on our scavenger hunt for our free stuff. We stopped in our first shop, Diamonds International and we were told the previous day by Pippa to speak directly with the manager, well this other worker said that she wasn't available so we decided to come back when Pippa was there. We decided to go to the rest of the shops where we got free stuff, and there wasn't that many to go to in Cabo. We went back to Diamonds Int. and Matt said I could look. So I asked for a full 1 caret good quality diamond, and well if you couldn't guess here it is. Isn't it pretty! It is a full 1 caret H VSI2 diamond I loooooooooove it so much. The first couple of days it looked like one of the fake Walmart CZ rings cause it was so huge. Well I kept my original setting and just added the huge diamond which fits perfectly. My other diamond was made into a pendant for a necklace. Matt is too good to me, and I am not allowed to ask for another diamond for 25 years, but why would I, I love it so much!

~We had to take a Tender/small boat ride to the port cause the ships aren't allowed to dock in the bay so here are a couple of pix from that.~

1st Post of Many-The Ship

Ok so I am going to do more than one post just to make it easier to read. We had so much fun on the ship. We went to a ton of the on board activities offered. First day at sea Matt had our whole day planned for us. He wanted to do so much, and I kind of got overwhelmed cause I wanted to just relax. We went to seminar after seminar. One of the seminars that we went to was about shopping at the port. We got this awesome card where we can get a ton of free stuff at a lot of the shops. The person in charge of the speech was named Pippa. She talked about the amazing deals that you can get at the jewelery stores. Funny thing, Matt and I had been talking about upgrading my diamond in a year or two anyhew, so while Pippa was talking I looked at Matt and he said, "I'm thinking about it" YAYAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Anyhew I'll get to that topic later. Well here are some pix of our room and some at sea from our Veranda.

We Are Back, But.....

Sorry everyone! I know you are on the edge of your seat for pix of Mexico. I have been so busy for the past couple of days doing about 10 lessons a day. Tomorrow I have no lessons and plenty of time to post pix and everything about our trip.

Also Elizabeth, I have a surprise for you to see tomorrow. We got something very exciting while in Mexico and you are going to scream when you see pix.

And We're Off...

Bon Voyage Everyone! We leave tonight for 12 days of bliss and fun in the sun on a ship with only 46 other family members on it. No, it will be so much fun! Matt and I are ready to leave everything behind us and just hang out together and spend time with our family!

I Found It

After about 30 minutes of searching through a ton of different cables and pulling out an old box that we still hadn't unpacked, low and behold at the bottom of the box was an unopened bag of a USB cable with a different and very small other end on it and some other cords. And they were the right ones too. Go Me! So here is a select few of the wedding, cause I took 198 pix.

~The Wedding Gazebo~

~My nephew Jordan, Mr. G. Q.~

~My niece Caitlyn. She is only 12~

~Mrs. Kenny, soon to be in this pix~

~I love this pix, it turned out great!~

~Mr. and Mrs. Kenny~

~The Family~

~First Dance~

I'm back!!!

Hey everyone! I'm back from my whirlwind weekend in Vegas. I had a ton of fun at the wedding and with Corrine and her perfectly beautiful family. To start, the wedding was Sunday morning at 10am. It was actually a lot shorter than I thought weddings usually are, but it was a very small crowd of only 30 people there. It was very intimate and beautiful and I took over 100 pix. Oh yeah and realized at the end that I forgot to put the memory card in the camera. Don't worry, the pix were saved on the camera's built in memory, now getting the pix off the camera is the question. I just realized that I didn't take any pix with Corrine and her fam, and I wish I did dang! But something funny did happen. So Corrine wanted to go to this soft serve frozen yogurt parlor that all her friends were raving about. We went and were eating outside. One of the workers came out and cleaned our table for us and was saying that he only worked at this place called the Golden Spoon, as a side job and that he was a surgeon. Well Corrine mentioned that I was visiting from out of town and I told him I was from Louisa. Now keep in mind that Louisa is a very small po-dunk town with only 4 stop lights in the town. The worker said that he knew exactly where it was and said that he was in Louisa, actually Cookoo, just outside of Louisa, last weekend visiting family. Then he said he was LDS. At the end of the conversation he said that he was visiting the Royster family. I immediately blurted out that I teach the oldest Royster girl piano, and that I helped Kelly, the mom, with her Book of Mormon songs. Man, (cue the most annoying and repetitive and obnoxious ride music from Disneyland, you know what I am talking about, It's A Small World.) (I know Elizabeth, I actually said it, but it is true.) I think that it is too funny. Well as soon as I figure out how to get the pix from the wedding onto my computer I will post them but till then. Have a great weekend. PS Matt and I are leaving Friday night for Washington DC to stay overnight since we have a very early flight at 6am to go to PHOENIX. YAY.

I Survived

For the small number of you who know what was going to happen to me today...I survived with flying colors! It was not bad at all. No joke, it was easy and almost painless. There were only a couple of areas that hurt more than I thought they would, but overall it was not bad at all. I think I am going to keep doing this for a very, very long time. If you want to know a secret about it, email me and I will go into more detail. I am now officially ready to have some fun in the sun on the cruise!