Fabulous day..With RAY!!

Oh my gosh We had so much fun!!! Ray George was in town and he invited Dana and I to come to his swanky hotel pool for the afternoon. I'd never been to this resort in Scottsdale before, the Princess resort, it was awesome! We lounged on pool lounges that felt cushy like beds, they Ray made sure we had plenty of water (service with a smile...still a true Cabana Boy!!) and they brought us frozen towelettes to cool off with. Ray treated us to a poolside lunch of chicken pesto wraps and chicken quesadillas with all the trimmings. He had 3 other friends there too (all women, of course LOL)and we just hung out and soaked in the pool and sun. I'm definetly a little crispy..eeek)It was just so freakin lovely and relaxing. I'm really really bummed that I had to leave, Mark had to work, the perfect end would have been to stay for the big BBQ that was being prepared, watch a movie IN THE POOL (yup, a big screen over the pool!!) and then go to a club.......AAAAHAHHH! I can't think about that it would be a fab time overdose but I have to face reality. But someday....OH man I wana cry that would have been great. Ray is a super good and fun dancer.Heee heeee!! But the time we did have was great, for sure. THANK YOU RAY for having us, I loved it!

WELCOME WELCOME!!!!!!

Welcome to my new blog!!! Do you LOVE IT????? I totally LOVE IT!!! A HUGE thank you to Jess, who walked me thru the whole change tonight, I could never have figured it out!! Wooo hooooo!

The end....finally!!!!

For some reason I am not wanteing to write about the vacation anymore. Here is the end real quick.

Friday morning we get up, go to breakfast, meet up with a few pals to eat. Damn!! Its over!!! We say our goodbyes, I wish we could have said goodbye to more people, but oh well. I would have been nice to have all the rooms booked near each other, or at least on the same level. We gather up the rest of our stuff, and get in the line to get off the boat. We were one of the first colors to get dismisssed, but ended up waiting FOREVER at the baggage claim for one of our suitcases. Once we got that, we went to the shuttle to the rental car place, and Dana got there about half and hour later. At least we got to see Misty and Morgan and Kelly and Shelly at the rental place, that was nice to say goodbye anyway. We dropped Dana and Blake off at the Orlando airport and headed to Daytona Beach, where our flight was leaving the next morning. I 'm so glad this is how it worked out, Daytona was awesome!! I took a nap while Mark watched World cup, then we went to the pool for a while. Came back and decided to find some good seafood so we found this place called DJ's deck...PERFECT!!! We drove down to the beach, and realized...WOW we should have been at theis gorgeous white beach all this time!!!


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LOL It was beautiful!! We found the restaruant and wolfed down a pound of crab legs and a half pound of steamed shrimp. YUMMMMMMMM!!! It was exactly what we wanted! A little outdoor place with the real stuff. Great great. So we went back to the hotel, stopping on the way for candy and icecream and soda as a last treat before we get to work on the new bods. As a side note, we were walking distance from the Daytona speedway......HOLY CRAP this thing was massive!! I was in awe!!Pictures can't explain it, it must be seen to be believed. CRAZY!!

Anyway, we got up about 5:30, got to the airport and flew home. It was good to see the kiddos, seems like everything was just dandy while we were gone, which was nice. Then we crashed for the weekend, and now I just barely recovered yesterday. Finally last wednsday I went to the laundromat and did 11 loads of laundry (and thats not even all of it, that was just enough to get me past the overwhelmed stage)and I just yesterday got the house cleaned. So yeah, its taken me a while to get into the swing of life again. But now I'm back!!! And this story is over(freakin finally!!!)


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Da cruise day 4

Well If I can even remember it by now....:P

On the third day it was stay on the boat all day. We got up kinda late and ate some breakky at the buffet.We chatted and had a leisurely time. Then we went and got ready for the Workout real quick. Went up there and things were in full swing.


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This is us with Donna Szabo. As amazing as she looks, shes just as nice. She taught us tons of new ab exercises that we are all using now.


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Dana and me with Aaron Ferguson. Awwwwwwwww!!

See video below. After that it was time for the Cabana Boys and the group Red Bikini Society picture.


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We took the picture with the ladies, the the CB's posed for about 100 picutres. Thats why they were in wuch fine form in the gym, they were trying to get pumped up for the speedos. Hehehehe. So after the big photo op it was time to EAT again, but Mark was busy taking all of Mikko Manners pictures for him, so we were running a little behind. We missed eating iwth our usual crowd, but it turned out good because we had the chance to eat with Dr. Wayne and also Linda and her husband. It was neat to hear Dr. Wayne tell about his experience, quite a story. An I hadn't really talked to Linda yet, we'd been busy and in different places. So we ate with them and talked for a while. Then we went out to the back of the ship and Mark got into a couple games of basketball while I layed out and then chatted with Caroline. There was also a rock climbing contest going on on the back of hte ship, which was cool. Morgan, who was in our dinner group won the whole thing. He will now be known as Spiderman. Yes, we are the coolest! HAHAHA After that we went back and got ready for our pre-dinner party.


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Jen and I were twins...OOPS!! HAHA Oh well, I'll be her twin any day!!! We had some awards, where we found out we won the wacky olympics. WOOT! There was a question and answer with the champ time, they gave some great answers to some great questions. We got some more supplements(earlier we had gotten EAS bags full of stuff like beach towel, supplements, beach bag, etc.) and a CD that Jerry had put together for us of workout songs. It's really good, and has a few I didnt' have so that was nice.


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Cute!!! Lori and Casey


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The Wacky Olympics winners!(what was our name?? I can't remember!)

We went in to our last dinner (sniff sniff). Aaron and Candice were late because they were at the buffet...again!!! LMAO Oh my, we laughed and laughed at dinner, it was too funny. I KNOW Misty has pictures of us at that dinner....a-hem.... I ordered 2 appetizers, a salad, 2 entrees(one being a steak) and the key lime pie and a giant decadent brownie for dessert. It was all so delicious. The waiters all did this very cheesy, hilarious(it wasn't supposed to be a comedy, I don't think) But the Austrailians were like "Is that supposed to be music??" It was this cheesy amusement park music. It was so funny. They sang and walked around and waved at us. Hehe.


After dinner we kind of just wandrred around, we had to have our stuff packed up and by the doors to get taken away...WAAAAAAA!!! Some people went to the dueling piano show, some went to th love and Marriage show, which Mark said was really funny, but I got talking to Kevin, then we went to the end of the piano show where some escapades got my friend Caroline in trouble with her hubby, but it was just a misunderstanding. We were bummed about it though. I hope they have it patched up by now though. So after that we wentup to the club where it could have been fun but the DJ continued to suck SO BAD it was virtually undanceable. I did dance with my new cutie Wes, who enlightened me to some hip hop stuff. Or is it R& B stuff? Or mabye rap... heck if I know, Thats why I needed help. HAHAHA I still dont' know the name of the song the crap DJ played so I can't download it anyway. Mark and I snuck away for a little late night walk on the back of the ship, it was romantic. :D


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We went back in and chatted for a while then decided to turn in, reluctantly. We did actually have to be up in the morning to eat before check-out. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!