Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls

Ben, Kingsley and I try to recreate TLC's classic video.  Yes, this gets it's own post

Horsey!

So last week was our last week out of Miami to the Caribbean.  On Tuesday when we were in Samana, a bunch of us went horseback riding to this amazing Waterfall.  It was really amazing and scary in that the horseback riding was way more intense than I expected.  I haven't ridden horses since being a counselor at Firebird Camp, and even then, I was pretty wussy about it.  But in Samana we went along these really rocky paths with these really malnourished horses who really wanted us to leave them alone.  There was a 14-year-old leading my horse the whole way, but sometimes he would stand behind the horse to get it to go, and I would get really nervous that I was going to fall off.  They don't use the English saddles I used at camp in Samana (apparently), so I was using a Western saddle and just holding onto the big stub on it, which I'm pretty sure is the exact wrong this to do. Anyhoo, I it ended up being a lot of fun.  We rode to this waterfall where where you could jump off this rock into the water, and that was really fun.  But then there were also all of these kids who were climbing the waterfall and jumping off mid-waterfall, which made me scared for them, because there were definitely tons of shallow areas where there were huge rocks in the water.  Anyways, no one died, and after we rode back, we went to this beach where there were these adorable girls who loved taking pictures with my camera and then looking at them on the back of the camera.  If only adults were as easy to befriend...

Anyhoosies, now I'm in New York for a few days- amazing!  There's a business charter that's on the ship for a few days, and since we don't have any shows during that time, I was able to get off the ship!  I'm hanging out right now in my brother's apartment.  It's so great.

Sassy!

Vanessa

Samana Omlette

This past week was a super, I went back to sharing a room with Molly so that's about as sassy as can be.  I was a little under the weather, so I didn't do too much beach-going, but Tuesday I did explore Samana with some buddies.  I posted some cute pics of that day.  The restaurant we ate at was really fun, until I realized that I had ordered (or the waiter thought I ordered), a shrimp omlette.  I thought I had ordered a shrimp tortilla, but when it turned out to be an omlette (with nothing in it other than shrimp), I tricked my mind into thinking it was a pleasant surprise.  Half-way through eating it I was pretty sure I was going to vomit so I had to give up on it.  

Here's a tip: Don't order shrimp omlettes.

Speaking of awful food, another highlight of the week was daring each other to try the desserts in the garden.  The garden cafe is the main buffet-eating area, and they always have about 2 good desserts, surrounded by a ton of medicre-awful ones.  One night we tried all of them, and decided which ones, in order, were worst, second-worst, and third-worst.  I tried to get someone to pay me 5 dollars to finish the dessert that we voted was worst, but there were no takers.

Today begins our last cruise out of Miami, and then we're off to New York.  Our cruise will then go from New York to Bermuda, which should be super fun.

Sassy!

Vanessa

The past two weeks!

The past 2 weeks have been a blast.  Last week I got to share a room with Brett Lyons.  We were really good roomies, although we didn't get a chance to make our controversial talk show, which we were going to hold in our room every night.  Here's a photo of little Brett just waking up. Just kidding, Blogger won't let me post it.  Okay, now it will. I just feel lucky that for one glorious day Blogger would let me post photos easily, and I got so many up of George's visit...

Also, last week Chris's parents were visiting, so we got to hang out with them and that was really fun (above is a photo of Chris's mom and I- sassy women dress alike.). Molly's boyfriend and Jesse's girlfriend also visited, so in case you don't know where I'm headed with this- lots of sassy dinners.  By the end of the week I didn't even remember what it felt like to be hungry.

Last Sunday, instead of using our Miami day to run errands and check email, we went to South Beach to get brunch for my friend Ben's birthday.  It was really fun, and something I would also like to post photos of if only Blogger would let me.  Okay, now it will. South Beach is beautiful and the people dress like maniacs.  It's like a rap video, circa 1995, is going on all the time.  Was that the correct usage of "circa"?  I sure hope so, because I really wanted to use that term.

We only have one week left of this itenerary and then we reposition to New York.  That should be pretty awesome, we're all looking forward to it.

SASSY!

Vanessa