We be cruisin' ya'll

Today (well, Saturday) we went on a 5 hour gambling cruise. To be able to gamble here you have to get into international waters which took about a half hour. We almost missed the cruise and would have for certain if it weren't for mom's speeding...and the employee letting us in a locked gate and escorting us down to the boat (where a different employee proceeded to yell at us and tell us that we could get arrested for doing that rather than telling the escorting employee they did something wrong). Then when we got onto the boat I realized that I didn't have my ID with me which was required. I had left it in my carry on bag since I had just been through all the airport fun on Friday. Lucky for me I have an old non-valid ID in my wallet with my old last name on it. I keep it in my wallet because my last name on that one matches what it says on my debit card since I haven't gotten my last name changed with my bank yet (because it requires both of my parents to sign and fax things or for me to get an entirely different account--and I'm lazy) so I have it if anyone ever decides to card me when I use it.

This was the gate that was locked that the employee let us through on our way on the ship.

It was pretty fun...just like a casino except when you get bored you go out on deck and watch dolphins and jellyfish in the water. They also fed us buffet style. The whole cruise cost $10 each, so that's not bad. Also, all 3 of us shared a special bingo card and won $100! Ok, so there were 3 winners so they gave us $35 and an ugly bingo t-shirt, but still... And there was a little bit of drama with Chrissy and her bingo pen that she bought and having to let mom use it, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Us on the way home.

On the way home Chrissy (like a lady) needed to spit a loogie out the window. She was in the front seat and it didn't get very far as it splatted itself across my back seat window. It was pretty gross so I will share it with you.

We then got blizards from DQ and went back to the condo where Chrissy and I proceeded to the beach access stairs even it was high tide and they were submerged. We just sat on the stairs and let the waves hit us. It started to hurt after a while since we were being flung back against the stairs so we gave up. Then we were cold and went into the jacuzzi tub together since it is ginormous (bathing suits on..nothing creepy jeez).




Later there was lightning off in the distance and I spent a while trying to figure out how to use Reid's old camera to do pictures of it on long exposures, but as I had tried to explain to Reid I didn't have anything to set the camera down on since I was literally standing IN the ocean as I was taking them. I took some with the camera on the dock, but it wasn't at a good angle for where the lightning was coming from since there were buildings in the way. Tomorrow is supposed to be stormy all day so maybe I'll get some better shots.

Artist's portrayal of how a picture of lightning would look if one didn't have a tripod and was standing in waves. Notice the Scottish Terrier taking offense to the pink lightning above his head.