The Cruise

In January, Husband and I went on a Caribbean Cruise with my family.



We flew into Puerto Rico and stayed the night at the Holiday Inn Express.
EIGHT of us squeezed into 1 room with 2 full sized beds. We had to get creative. My brothers slept on the floor....



I slept on 2 chairs pushed together....



And Husband slept in....yep...that's the bathtub!

CRAZY!



Here is the Carnival Victory - our home for 7 days.




We enjoyed food.



Fun. (The Gun Show).



Game nights.



The beach. (In St. Thomas)



And the wildlife (this lizard jumped on my leg and proceeded to crawl up my leg - me screaming all the while).

The Emerald Pools (In Dominica)

The odd shipmates (WHY!?! OH WHY is he wearing those socks!?!?).

More Gun Show.

The odd towel animals (if you can call that THING an animal).

Getting our hair braided in corn rows.

The view.

The Kayaking (on St. Lucia)

More beautiful views. (Puerto Rico)

Husband and I enjoyed ourselves immensely.

If I could choose, I would just move right in on the ship and sail the high seas for the rest of my life.

It was heaven.

Blog Smarts

Apparently I'm not very blog smart.

Back in February I started a post about the cruise Husband and I went on. But I didn't have time to complete it, so I saved it as a draft.

Tonight I finished the posting.
And it posted it in chronological order, back as a February post.

Not cool.

And I don't know how to move it.

So if you want to read about the cruise and see some photos, scroll down or click here.

Wanted

A few weeks ago, our neighbor's condo was robbed. So therefore, Husband and I have been more cautious about locking our doors and keeping our eyes open for anything suspicious in our neighborhood.

Today as I got home and pulled up to my parking spot there was a black car parked there. A man was sitting in the driver's seat. I pulled up near the spot and stopped so that the person could tell they were in my spot. But I kept far enough away so as not to be thought rude.

He backed out and as I pulled into the spot, I waved "thank you" at him and made sure I got a good look at the driver.

I pulled into my spot. And kept my eye on him. I memorized his license plate number and the make and model of his car.

He drove to another part in the parking lot. I was suspicious.

I got out of my car and watched him drive back to where I had parked. He rolled down his window.

He flashed a police badge at me.

By looking in the interior of his car, and noting his laptop and a few other objects, I could tell he was an undercover police officer. He looked like Sayid Jarrah from Lost. Hot.

He showed me a photo of a woman and asked me if I had seen her in the condos across the way from me. She is thought to be living there.

I didn't recognize her.

I apologized that I didn't know who she was as I wasn't very familiar with my neighbors in that building.

I wished I could've been more help.

He apologized for parking in my spot. I told him it was fine but that initially I had been suspicious of him as my neighbors had been robbed and he was just sitting there. He complimented my awareness of suspicious individuals.

I thanked him to trying to keep our neighborhood safe by looking for criminals.

I walked to my condo feeling like a superstar because I had the police asking for my help, but I also felt like a failure for not being able to help.

I will be keeping my eyes open for that woman he was looking for.

Black Iris

My brother, Eric, and his super-soon-to-be-wife, Carlee, are trying to break into the photograpy business. And they are making a run for it! They've done a couple of photo shoots but are looking for more opportunities to build their portfolio. They are currently doing some "pro bono" shoots, so if you have any photo ops that you are in need of, Easter, family pictures, new babies, children, engagements, bridals, etc. Check out their blog and contact them and they will get you taken care of!