vacation couldn't have come at a better time for me. could not have been more perfect. everything about it was perfect. (well I guess the weather could have been a TAD bit warmer & the food could have been a little gross so I wouldn't have wanted to eat it all)... but other than that.
the first day on the ship i just wanted to sleep all day. we had a 4 am wake up call to get to the airport for a 6 am flight. i had decided to be irresponsible and start packing at 1 am that morning. you do the math. i was running on 1 hour of sleep the day we traveled. but i hung in there until i got to our room on the ship and i passed out for a few hours. then we had a couple days on the ship to just relax and hangout. it was so nice for me!! some of the highlights of just hanging out on the boat are
- the food of course
- drinking the yummiest pina colada I have ever had while sitting in the jacuzzi with bays
- playing basketball with my big brother dallin
- laying out soakin the sun up
- reading my book
- relaxing relaxing relaxing
- family dinners in the dining room
- the hypnosis show that my family made me participate in *shook my butt like it was no one's business.
- only using the elevator once to go down baby!
- playing with the cutest baby in my world
- playing cards
- just spending time with my family
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our two stops were cabo san lucas and puerto vallarta. i was loving life the second we got onto land in cabo. so many different people yelling at you from different directions trying to convince you that THEIR boat or THEIR tour is the best... brand new in fact!!! & that we should go with them! i knew i was in mexico and i was SO happy about it. we did go with the guy that promised his boat was brand new by the way & that was the convincing factor. we went whale watching that day which was so cool. the whales that we saw were insanely huge. i'm tellin ya, HUGE. i am so afraid of the ocean so if i thought about the things swimming around under me that could have swallowed the whole boat... well... i just didn't let myself think about it! .. then the rest of the day in cabo we played on the beach, drinking soda, and walking around buying things from people begging. it is part of the experience ya know? i love it!
in puerto vallarta we got a van to take us around for the day. we went to the jungle and did a zip lining adventure. it was quite the work out but it was so cool to experience that! I had only been zip lining at girls camp so i was in for a treat. i did exactly what the guys told me to do because i wasn't about to fall off that line into the middle of the jungle, no thank you! : ) it was a fun day, to finish it off we went shopping a little at a market, i got me some natural vanilla! mm I love the smell of vanilla. getting on the ship was nice this night though, we were all tired!
so the trip was coming to an end, it was friday night and the next morning i was getting off at 8 am and my family wouldn't get off until the afternoon. i was supposed to get off and get a taxi to LAX and jump on a plane to florida for a week to babysit my little brother and sister. so i was excited about my vacation dragging on a little longer, i packed my stuff up and we went to dinner that night. dinner was great! we had a good family talk to end the trip, loving life still! everyone was jealous of my dinner this night, i got tempura vegetables .. kind of like happy sumo! i was excited about it because i had been craving something like this all week. welllllll after dinner dallin & I went to the show to check out the entertainment for the night. i started getting an upset stomach so i told dallin i would meet him at the room. I went back and asked mom and bailey if they felt okay? they did. I figured i had just eaten way too much again and i just said....."i wonder if this is what it feels like to be pregnant?" haha. anyway, an hour into sleep i was in the bathroom living on the ground by the toilet. worst feeling huh? and then every hour after that. I was so sick. i threw up i think 7 or 8 times throughout the night . at 5 in the morning i was laying wide awake feeling scared.. "how in the world am i supposed to be going by myself to florida in 3 hours .." so mom and i walked down to the medical center on the ship to see if they could help me. They gave me some gatorade and lots of medicine. it helped a little bit! so with so much help from my great mother, i got off the ship when i was supposed to.. except i was walking like a zombie. i had zero energy and still felt sick. i got a taxi and got myself to the airport. well i was sitting at my gate and all the sudden they announce that our flight has been delayed. i was upset, only because I needed some sprite or a drink in me and i couldn't see anything close for me to buy something and i didn't have enough energy to go search! so i sat patiently waiting for them to let us on so i could get sprite! .... well an hour later they announced that our flight not only has been delayed, it has been canceled till TOMORROW. it is noon on saturday at this point. i was seriously dying i thought. i was a mess. okay so i am in LA by myself, feeling like i need to be in bed throwing up, my family is going to long beach to get on their flight right now. i was trying to keep calm, i followed the people on my flight and we went down to go get in line to fix everything and see if we could all get on different flights. well little did we know, we were all about to be standing in this line for the next 6 hours. there were 50 people in front of me and each person was taking 25-30 minutes each with the desk people. so i sat on my suit case in the line, sort of making friends with the people in front of me. I was so sickkkk and so miserable. i cried to my parents on the phone, telling them i didn't know what to do! so we tried and tried to explore options but nothing was working. all i needed was some water or something at this point. i was getting really weak. i told the sweet lady behind me that i was feeling sick and i needed to go find some water so asked her to save my spot. by this time the mom and her teenage son in front of me, along with the lady behind me, we were friends and they sort of knew i wasn't feeling good. anyway, i go to find some water and i promise there was nothing anywhere! if you have been to lax, you may know what i'm talking about. i'm not sure. anyway, i asked a few people where a fountain was or something and they just said way far away basically! so i went into the bathroom and started crying. i was feeling like i was going to pass out and i needed something! i decided to drink out of the sink. so i did that and i took my medicine like that. haha i was bawling, and taking pills in the bathroom. looks great eh? i almost laid on the ground too. zero zero energy and i knew i still had to stand in line for another 4 hours and probably have to stay in a hotel tonight by myself in LA feeling like this. anyway, i clean myself up a little bit and start to head back to the line. i couldn't make it there. i started shaking so bad and it made me start crying because i knew forsure i was going to faint. i sat down in the middle of the hallway. haha bless my heart. the people in the line could see me, they come talk to me and i am hysterical. all i want is my mom at this point. they call paramedics and i was like.. "really, just call my mom! she is in long beach i just need her.." .. and you know what they said to me?? "you do not need your mom you are 20 years old, you are making yourself sicker by crying, so stand up and stop crying, we're not calling your mom, come with us." okay people, i seriously called the man an idiot & I got my weak fingers to dial my moms number and told her to please come to LAX because i couldn't even walk anywhere and these men were thinking i was faking it or something. ahh worst day ever. they helped me stand up, the people in line with me all clapped and hugged me (hahahahah) dragging my feet and stumbling i made it to the car then they took me to the medical center there.. my saint of a mother didn't get on her flight and she came to meet me at the medical place where the people there were not being very nice to me either. i was just so fed up and just wanted to get out of there. so when my mom got there i just said "let's go, i don't even want them to check me out, i just want to go get something in me and go home." .... so frontier airlines was the airline that i was with that day, i wouldn't recommend them.. unless it was just a really bad day. and lax paramedic crew, wouldn't recommend them either. but geez, so mom and i got put up in a hotel that night because they didn't have flights till the next day at this point. so we stayed at the hacienda and ate at this nasty diner on frontier. we hungout with 2 buddies that helped me that day at the airport. haha. i went to sleep at 7:30 that night though, slept great, woke up feeling 100x better, gave my mom the biggest hug, and took the complimentary shuttle to the airport and everything went GREAT with traveling that day. ....... & i finally got my sprite, they even gave me the whole can .
florida: to be continued!
