You may be wondering what the pics above are...or maybe you caught on to what my mom said. SHE wants to swim with NIMO. I like the sharks. OMG WOW!
TONY- I am so sorry but I think I may have had my ultimate scuba experience without you! I know, I know. I am losing my place as the favorite sister-in-law, please forgive me!!! We will be hard pressed to find anything that tops this! We will tell you all more about this next time we see you all! But just imagine...sharks swimming all around you so fast the water is literally vibrating and swirling in all different directions.

Yeah, yeah I know what you are all thinking. I can't help it. I'm cute not smart. :) Doh!!!

We just got home on Saturday and I have been frantically trying to get caught up. I took my laptop with me on this trip, determined to do some work while I was gone. I know you all think I just act silly at a party and sell those adult thingy-ma-jigs, but there is actaully a business side to my job! :) I think I pulled it out of the bag at least once...does it count if I was looking something up for Tim and then promptly shut it down. My laptop is FREAKING HEAVY and I lugged that sucker all over the Carribean for NOTHING!! Never again!!!

I just spent the last 1/2 hour reading the posts out loud to Tim and we were laughing our guts out. At first I thought it was the wine making things funnier than normal, but Tim was laughing just as hard. Thanks for that cuz my day wasn't great. Nothing like a glass of wine and some funny family blogs to make it all better again!

My apologies because MY posts are probably always going to be in response to everyone else's. Damn, there are some funny personalities and quirky senses of humor in this family. I'm glad I get to be part of it!

Ok, so here we go...Cathy, I can't wait to see you try to get out of swimming on this trip! Danny will be another year older and at the age where kids LOVE the water! Good thing Shaelynn LOVES the kids...and the beach...and the ocean....and the sand in between her ummmm....toenails.

OK, so I gotta tell you all...the kids both thought it was pretty funny that they had sand in their butt cracks afte playing at the beach all day. LOL

This was the first time they have ever been to the ocean. They wanted to spend all their time at the beach. (Sidenote...now I am having flashbacks of when me and their dad took them to Disneyland for Christmas. Wonderful Christmas gift, Right??? On the first day at the Park, we left a bit early to go back and get our sweaters cuz it got chilly. They decided that rather than go back to the park, the wanted to stay at the hotel swimming pool. The next morning, they asked if we could just swim all day. Of course, we said NO! We needed to get all we could out of those park passes! Everyday, they wanted to swim... Now... I'm pretty sure there is a Hampton Inn on 10600 S. and the freeway right in Sandy, Utah... with a POOL. No need to go clear to Cali for pools! LOL

Good luck on getting out of swimming! However, I will tell you, there MAY be hope! I have NEVER put on a swimsuit on a cruise ship. I have some very specific requirements for me to get in water anywhere!!!

1) It must be at least 78 degrees. This requirement is only while in the Carribean becausee 78 degrees is warm enough to swim. In Utah, it must be at least 85 degrees. No if, ands, or buts about it.

AND 2) There must not be wind. I do not like being cold. Not in the water and not when I get out of the water. When we got scuba certified and I had to get out of that nice warm 90 degree crater into the 15 degree air, it was sheer torture for me and I wanted to DIE!!! Plus it makes me need to pee.

So, although for the next cruise, you are pulling for Alaska, I will probably veto it. Sorry. :)

Onto Suzy's post. OMG girl! You crack me up! I am having visions of it now. There are 27 of us. The immigration people do not have a sense of humor in most cases. We are going through the line one at a time, all laughing and joking with Mr. Mexico Immigation dude, seeing who can make him actually crack a smile. They don't smile. Their faces might crack. Along comes Suzy. In her bubbly way that she has, she straight faced asks him if he can stamp it on a certain page.. "Ya know, the one that has, 'CHEAP LABOR' printed across the top?" Then she says, "Oh wait, not in BLUE! Can you do it in ORANGE?" OMG I'm gonna pee.

Tim suggeseted that we buy Suzy her very own ink pads.

Suzy, will you come to my "Stampin Up" party? I guess I will need to have one for you so we can get you your very own colors and sayings. LOL

Mom, I know you already told me that story about Susan saying you guys look like Manatees, but man, I about peed my pants seeing it written out.

Tony- WTH?! Ok, after reading it, and wiping the tears away from laughing so hard, (it literally took me three tries to get through it out loud for Tim) then re-reading it, I have to agree with you. The endangered species just don't make the effort. After all, they don't call it "Survival of the fittest" for nothin! If they don't make the effort, we should just eat them. Especially if they taste good. Or look pretty on a plate. Please just don't mistake my mom for a mantatee and eat her. Are manatees endangered? Ok...every night at dinner we have to have a head count.

Keep up the excerise mom! I think it's great you are doing it and I DON'T think you look like a manatee...or a seal.

Who wants to do Bikram Yoga with me? You all know I'm gonna do that crazy diet again, right?

Kym