HoLiDAy tRAveLs

Only 2 more days left on this rock, then to Orlando for 2 weeks!! Can't wait to spend Christmas and New Years with our friends and family this year!! 
When I leave on Tuesday, Remie is coming with me. It will be her last day living in Nassau with us. It's sad and it breaks my heart but I know she'll be ok with Craig and she'll have people around all the time, a big back yard to run in and lots of love. I wish we could keep her, she's a crazy insane dog with lots of energy but she's also very loving. She just wants to play all the time and run around outside, so in a year or so when she's a little older and calmer, she's going to be a really cool dog and sadly we'll miss out on that. At least we'll get to see her when we come home and hopefully she'll remember us!
On a happier note, we're so excited to be able to come home for 2 weeks this year!! We'll be home for Christmas AND New Years! We weren't sure if we were going to be able to, so this is exciting! It doesn't feel like Christmas here, it's not cold and there's hardly any decorations, so home with our family will make it feel like Christmas should. We've planned on going to a Magic game, Darin's parents are having a holiday party and donut night for New Years, which we haven't been home in 2 years for that!!
I assume my next post will be after Christmas, it gets a little hectic at home and I can't ever find time to blog, but here's a little bit of last year...

WiNTeR cRUisE

SUCESS!!! The cruise last week with my aunt Robin, cousin Sarah and her friends Courtney and Stephanie was a blast! Unlike the usual cruise where everyone drinks the whole time, these girls definitely knew how to relax, they work long weeks so I forgave them for not keeping up for 5 days :) I flew over to Florida on Friday afternoon and we left Saturday. The cuise went to Jamaica, which is somewhere I haven't been so that was pretty cool and then to Cayman, which is somewhere I love, so that was pretty awesome too. In Jamaica we went to the Dunn's river falls, which by the time you're done 900ft of climbing, wearing corny water shoes and getting splashed with freezing cold water it's actually a great experience. We rode on a catamaran out there and back, which just so happened to be playing loud music along side free rum drinks. The ride back was a little rough which made dancing and drinking at the same time look so not cute. The next day we headed to Cayman, visited the pawn shop, shopped at Guy Harvey, got our autographs from him and a picture with him and headed to Margaritaville until we had to be back on the boat. The next day at sea I was sure to get up at 8am and save seats on the deck, then head back to bed for 2 more hours....but it was perfect, our seats were still there at 11am!!! That night Stephanie and I attempted the tradition of the "last night". That means you either stay up all night OR sleep out on the deck under the stars. We couldn't stay up all night so we tried to sleep on the deck....from 2am to 5am we were cocooned with our pillows in our comforters. It was soooo windy and we ended up so cold we had to go back to the room and sleep, only to get up at 7am to get off the boat. It was so great to see my cousin and aunt who I don't usually get to see much of when i'm home, but a whole week made up for lots of lost time. Thanks for inviting me!!

As usual, I have a video in progress for this trip, i'll post it to my youtube page on the right of my blog when it's done.....so keep checking for it! Until then, here's some fun photos from the trip!

aNd goNe AGaiN

Since Thanksgiving, Darin ventured down to Barbados for 5 day to check out the future shop location and our new home. He had lots of pictures and info about the island and it was so excited hearing him talk about it. He's pretty stoked to be moving there and can't wait to open the store, he says our location there is perfect and we got a great deal on it!! So if you're ever in the mood for a vacation far far away, you know where we are!! Last weekend before Darin left we had CD (Chad Davis) here from Cayman, and his girlfriend Hanna came over from Freeport. We went out and had a great time and ate lots of good food! So now Darin is back and i'm off to Ft. Lauderdale today and leave for a cruise from Miami tomorrow with my aunt Robin and cousin Sarah. Robin wrote me a week ago and told me there's a 99% chance she couldn't go and if I wanted to go in her place she would change the name, so of course I agreed to go. Last night she found out that tiny 1% was the winner! So now she gets to come also!! I can't wait to spend time with Sarah and Robin, I don't get to see them very often so this next week will definitely be a blast!! We'll be in Jamaica on Monday and Cayman on Tuesday, i've never been to Jamaica so i'm excited about going there! Till next week (or the next depending on when I get my pictures uploaded), the cruise blog should be a good one, look forward to it ;)


Here's some pics from last weekend