Hello Mr. Whale

Thought everyone would enjoy this.... this whale is trying to jump over my house!!!  Pretty cool huh!!??

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A random hello!!

Okayy so working 80 or more hours a week has finally caught up to me so I am sorry for not keeping up with

My blog!!!!  But here are some random little adventures that keep me going!!!  First this week I had this pasanger want to take a "special " picture and wanted to know if I could help..... of course with my outstanding Customer service no is never the option!!  So here we go... what did I get myself into today with this 'special ' picture!!!? So I jumped right on in.... this guest wanted to take a picture that says when the stocks go down I'm heading down too... so that he can send it to his lawyer!!!  Hahahha interesting request right. So what better than to throw him in an aloha shirt a lei and a likejacket!!  A quick simple background and boom its done. Not as bad as some other "special pictures " that first came to mind ehhhhhh!?  Hahaha that was interesting!  Well the other picture is some of my crazy friends during a crazy beach adventure.... :) hahah the other picture is Megan and myself during one of our birthday adventures!!! I sure do miss that girl!  Other than that life has been good.... working working but in beautiful Hawaii!!

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My captains response the the ship wreck!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505270_162-57363313/veteran-ship-captain-cruises-safest-vacations/

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Colorado meets Hawaii

Well I found something that really reminds me of home!!  A passenger from a small town in Arizona has brought a piece of Colorado made Hawaiian to the ship. Its a banjo ukalayli (spelling wow)!! Its a very small banjo!!  It is amazing!  This Guy brings it everywhere with him!  And when he plays it his wife does a little hippy dance!!  Ohhhhhh man I love it!!  I sure do miss Colorado and all of its people!!!  76 more days and I will be home :)

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Home away from Home

Here is a quick video that shows where I live!! Im sorry the quality is so bad, but I did not have time to upload on such slow internet the full res version!! 

New Years Eve! – The stolen year!

New Years Eve! – The stolen year!

Alright so you know how every new years eve you begin to wonder if the new year will bring change, and what events it will bring. Well directly following the New Years eve toast I found myself naming the year 2012 the stolen year because of the little incident I got myself into…. But let me start off by just telling you about my night!

Not really looking forward to New Years Eve because I had to work, I went into the night kinda down. It was Saturday so we go a whole new group of people on board today and I shot Emby photos all day long! Not too excited for the new year… but later that night I ended up going to dinner with Kristine and things started to look up! We ate a great dinner at Liberty and after dinner went and explored the NYE decorations! They turned to whole pool deck into one giant dance floor and to top it off emptied out the hot tubs and filled them with ice and champagne! It was really neat to see them testing lights and sound right before the big night! Our agenda that night consisted of multiple DJ’s and bands performing all around the pool deck all night long! At the stroke of midnight we were going to have a firework show and bring in the new year with a bang, free champagne for everyone (INCLUDING CREW!) Well threw out the night I was taking candid photos of all the party people, having a good time, dancing, and getting crazy! At the stroke of midnight we watched the fireworks and all yelled and screamed! This was the new year…. And this is when I made the mistake that could have cost me my job! When I went to go get a glass of champagne my boss said that they ran out… “I heard”

Go grab some more out of one of the hot tubs! So of course I charged down to the main pool deck with Megan and we each grabbed two bottles thinking im sure more crew will still want some champagne! When we returned to the room where they were serving champagne to the crew my boss says, “What are you doing with those, how did you afford that!” At this point im think ohhhh boyyyy what have we done. I tell him we took them out of the hot tub…. He was like NO! You have to pay for those! How in the world did you get those!? I told him we just jumped in the hot tub and grabbed them! Well after a we both realized what a huge misunderstanding we had we decided that since I accomplished stealing champagne that was being guarded we might as well open one up! Everything worked out in the end I did not get in trouble nor did we even have to pay for the champagne that we drank, but wow what a way to bring in the new year huh!! All in all the night was a interesting night, it was wild spending NYE on a ship sailing threw Hawaii. Ohhh and just for the record the bar department alone on our ship, on NEW YEARS EVE, in one night, in six hours of sales made a total of $78,000!!! Crazy right! WOW.

Christmas Talk

Okayyyy, so don’t worry I have not forgotten about you guys!! I have just been so extremely busy it has been so crazy! I want to update you all on a few things so here we go… lets do this!

So for Christmas my parents bought me a new set of fins and sent me snorkel gear! I was super excited because I was getting tired of renting equipment every time I went snorkeling so now I don’t have too!! Now since Christmas is over I did not have to be surfer Santa this week in Kona, so I got the morning off! What a better time to get the morning off than in Kona, I love Kona! Kona is located on the big island and is my favorite place to be! I decided to gather up my gear and some friends and head for a day of snorkeling! We had a nice breakfast on the beach and watched as the mass amounts of passengers flocked off the vessel! We caught a shuttle down to turtle beach which is about a twenty minute drive off of the pier. When we first got there I was not too excited to see the mass amounts of people everywhere, but what can you do…. I can never escape the people!! As fast as I could I just wanted to get in the water and swim as far as I could away from all of these people! The water was so amazing, it was a little too shallow for my taste, but there were some amazing fish! I saw an eel, as well as a huge puffer fish! Now you might be like, why is this beach called turtle beach? Well its because you get to chill with actual sea turtles! There are over twenty sea turtles that live in this area and they are so use to people they just chill in the water and the beach all around these tourists every week! It was an amazing experience and I will look forward to exploring more and more of that beach threw out the next couple months.

Now that Christmas has ended now it has really hit me that I don’t believe that was Christmas. There was no snow, there were no sledding parties, there was no egg nogg. It was such a weird Christmas! But of course I made the best of it! Christmas eve I had some time off in the evening so I made some plans! I went to dinner and East Meets West which is a specialty restaurant aboard. Dinner was great, shared it with my new great friends. After dinner we went to a production show that they had on board, where to open the show was a sweet light show, synced with Christmas music, then there were all types of singers and dancers and even Todd Michael Cook doin his tapp dancing gig. Good times! Directly following the production show was a church service, NCL brought on a pastor to do a Christmas eve service. All in all Christmas eve was pretty fun! Christmas day flew right by, I worked most of the day shooting all 2700 guests aboard the pride of America! Such a crazy life I live!

Now I am starting to figure out how to work my new gopro and do some editing for you all to see my life in my perspective! It has been taking me a while to upload and now edit all of this footage but keep posted cause its coming!!