Flooooow Ridin!

So I've pretty much given up on blogging about the rest of my cruise..... except I can't leave out the Flow-Rider!!!! For those of you who are unaware, a Flow Rider is a surf simulator. Unfortunately, with the loss of my videos on my Flip, I only have a short clip to share.

I rode the Flow Rider a few times and it was crazy fun! I chose to boogie-board rather than surf, partially because I'm terribly uncoordinated, but also because I didn't want to waste my time on it just falling down - because the flow rider in UT is a tad expensive...

Chopped!

I finally did it... after much fear (to be afraid of; expect with alarm) and Trepidation (trep·i·da·tion n. 1. A state of alarm or dread; apprehension.)

I finally got bangs!

They have been a long time coming, but I have been too scared to do it until now. I finally said what the heck, and let my hair dresser chop my hair off - and I totally love it!

Here are some shots from our first formal night. It was nice getting dressed up all fancy for dinner, which is something I love to do!

Ocho Rios

On the third day of our trip we went to Ocho Rios, Jamaica. It was definitely different than the paradise I had in my mind. It's a pretty poor country and so poverty levels are high. There is garbage in all of the streets and yards and pretty filthy. There were some parts of it that were nice, but the city was definitely not nice.

There are tons of houses that are unfinished throughout the whole country side. People start building and then run out of money - not too uncommon from what happens here.

We went to the Brimmer Hall Plantation for a tour. It was pretty fun and really interesting.

This is our tour guide showing us what sugar cane looks like. We tasted some of it - it's about the consistency of tough celery, and has a very light sweetness to it. It wasn't too bad.

 This is Jamaica's national fruit. I can't remember what's it called, but I do remember that it's poisonous until it blooms and you cook it.

One of our tour guides was more than happy to show-off for us. He was climbing up the coconut trees and flirting like crazy. He was pretty entertaining.

Mmm...  chocolate. So for all of you that didn't know, this is what cocoa beans look like. Really. They come in a yellow pod looking thing, and in the inside they are white and squishy. You can eat them just like they are (which Arla did) or they cook them down into chocolate. The crazy tour guide tried hard to getting me to eat one, but no way Jose. (except we were in Jamaica, so his name probably wasn't Jose.)

After we went to the plantation it was off to lunch. We went to a really nice hotel and had some good grub. We had some Jamaican jerk chicken, some pork, rice, etc. It was awesome...

Oh yeah... a like 70 yr old guy totally offered me some "sunshine."

After lunch it was time to go climb the famous Dunn's River Falls.

There were some really fun spots in the falls where you could sit and slide down them. There were some awesome guides who took you up the falls and carried everyone's cameras and took some great pictures!

We had so much fun! Oh yeah... and our tour guide totally fell in love with me. Hahaha. He even gave me his number...

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Okay, so I am a little bit of an Ebay junkie because I love getting a deal, but I am still a little speechless at this one!  Really? really? What would you like me to do with ONE shoe! Turn in to Cinderella and hope I find the missing one at the ball?!?!?

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Say Hello to Beautiful Labadee!

Believe it or not, Haiti was probably the nicest port that we went to. It was very warm, tropical, well taken care of. The fact that the whole beach is owned by Royal Caribbean does make a difference, but ya know.

Here is a beautiful shot from the top of the zip line tower. Yes, there is a landing pad at the very very end of the peninsula across the way.

The round thing at the top of the ship is indeed a hot tub. It was so awesome. There was one on each side of the ship... they were in the adult area, so no whiny children allowed. :)

The zip line was crazy fun!!! I had a few awesome videos that I took from the top of the zip line, and I recorded the whole way down, but the video is all gone. Sad day. But this pic is a small glimpse of what it was like going down the zip line. P.S. It's the longest zip line in the world over water! Pretty sure I screamed the whole way across.

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Can we say LOVE at first site?!?!? So we go to the place where we are supposed to go to parasail... and heaven help me, there was one of the most beautiful men!! I thought that there was no way that he would be the one taking us out, but oh did I have great luck that day! I can't even remember his name, but I remember that he was attractive (check out that smile!), tan, had big muscles and one very cute South African Accent!

The boat driver was pretty attractive also, but I wasn't near as spellbound with him. He was playing some pretty awesome tunes as we were sailing around, and he made it a really great time!

We got pretty sunburned in Haiti... we weren't exactly prepared, and I forgot to sunscreen my legs, so the top of my thighs got a little burnt. Now they have a really nice tan which is totally unfair because my calves are still white!

 

Parasailing is much calmer than I expected. You just sit on the back of the boat and as soon as they start driving you just lift off and go right up in the sky. When you're up there it feels like you are just sitting on a chair in the sky. It's really not a huge adrenaline rush like I imagined it would be. It was still incredibly fun, just different than I expected.

 Arla was quite terrified of the parasail and almost didn't go. We talked her in to it, but her face is still priceless!!

 

The beach in Haiti was breathtaking. It was hot, hot, hot there, but so fun!