So I get into my car with my friend Julie and the radio comes on and I hear the 107.9 Touci Touci bird...which may not mean anything to some of you, but I knew if you hear the bird, you are supposed to call and be #10. So I am reaching around for my purse in the back seat for my phone and I figure I'm taking too long and the tickets are already gone, but I decided to call anyway. It was ringing! It never rings when I try to call radio stations! So a guy picks up and says "Mix 107.9, can you hold for a second?" and I say "Umm...Yeah!". Then Julie and I start freaking out...seriously, I was shaking! Julie keeps saying "What's going on? What did he say?". I told her what he said and both of us sounded like two 13 year old girls "shut up, oh my gosh, shut up!". So he comes back on the phone and says "Thanks for holding, you won tickets!" and since I only heard the touci bird and not what it was for I said "Umm, thanks. What were those tickets for again? I forgot." "Oh, you won tickets to see the new X-men movie." So he took down all my info and I just have to pick the tickets up within the next 30 days. Ok so X-men tickets aren't as cool as No Doubt and Paramore tickets, but I was still pretty stoked that I won anything at all! So thanks, I love 107.9 the Mix!
For those of you who haven't had the chance to play on one, the very first time you play, you must do a "body test". I had heard that the wii fit would weigh you and I was pretty sure I wasn't a stick but I hopped on and the tiny wii fit voice said "overweight!" I was mortified! ...Here my wii fit character went from looking 'normal' to gaining a tire around her midsection and a fatty fat booty :( not my proudest moment. I looked around as my cute husband stared at the screen, not only did I have to hear that I was overweight, but other people heard too! (Disclaimer: the wii fit is awesome and there is a password protected option if you don't want others knowing your bmi and weight.) What is it about hearing someone else say what you already know that makes it harder to accept? I knew I wasn't the size 2 I wish I was, but I also didn't ever have anyone tell me I wasn't. After having a quick moment of self pity, I realized this is the starting point, I don't have to stay like this! Wow...really? I don't have to be an 'overweight' size forever? The wii fit then tells you that if you have a specific goal, it will help motivate you even more, so I set my initial goal: Lose 15 pounds in 3 months. I know on my previous post I said "lose 30 by my b-day in August" and I'm not giving up on that, I am simply setting a shorter term goal to get me on my way.
This is a lovely picture of the majestic (wow, did I just say majestic?) Carnival Valor at night. It is the one with the blue lights. I think the other ship was a Norwegian Cruiseline ship.
After a couple failed attempts at a self portrait, a lady was nice enough to take this picture as the ship was approaching St. Maarten.
I took a picture with this towel animal...though we're still not quite sure what animal it is supposed to be.
CAUTION: SNORKEL GEAR MAKES FOR HUGE LOOKING LIPS!
Again, another St. Maarten picture. These were the most common fish we saw.
This is actually a nudey (sp? real word?) beach on the french side of St. Maarten. Mostly the nudies were older women who seemed pretty confident with their saggin' parts...kudos ladies. I guess. The beach was beautiful and there weren't very many people despite all the chairs and umbrellas. We actually kayaked over to this beach to go snorkeling and the nudists were just an added bonus!
Wow, hot pic of me, I know. This is a random "climbing sculpture" in a park in downtown Miami. I was a little sketchy that we were downtown, especially at night but Ben seemed pretty chill. Just when I was really uncomfortable about all the homeless people we saw sleeping in doorways downtown, we actually met 4 LDS missionaries. We walked by them the first time and I didn't say hi so I felt pretty bad, but on our way back from dinner, they were still in the same spot. As we walked by for the second time I said "Hi Elders!" and one stared at me and said "How did you know who we were?". Um yeah, I think if you see 2 or more young guys in white shirts with black tags that have bikes and helmets with them, most people know they are Mormon missionaries. Pretty funny. So we chatted with them for half an hour about how Utah is and we asked them how their missions were going. It was kinda cool to see missionaries out teaching the bums. Okay they weren't preaching to the bums but it does sound funny.
