Cruise!

About to board the ship! Jami was sad because she couldn't find her passport and had to use her birth cert.
Towel animals are fun.

I consumed an average of 12,000 calories per day (or was it per hour)?

I believe that this is us attempting to be sexy...or creepy.

Ready to go dancing!

The girls on formal night (Katie, Jami, Julia, Me, Heather, and Lauren).

Formal night.

Second Formal night.

With some break dancers that were on the ship.

The faces we use to pick up guys. Works every time.

Just showin off my massive muscles, that's all.

Not even kidding, I found this HUGE underwear underneath my bed on the last day of the trip. I thought it was one of the guys' that we were with. Turns out, it wasn't. I ran out of clean underwear and wore that home.

Grand Cayman

In Grand Cayman we went snorkeling on a reef and then the boat took us to stingray city, where tons of stingrays were just swimming all around us! One of the guides had me hold a huge one! It was so sweet, but I was scared to death that it was going to do me in like it did the Crocodile Hunter.

This is at a beach that we went to after our snorkeling and stingray excursion. Oh, and this is us being models. Obviously.
Jami and I on the boat taking us to the snorkeling reef.
Craig and I jumping in!
Swimming with a Stingray.

Muah, snorkeling.

Soft Sand.

My artistic photography. This crab was actually dead. But it looks alive, doesn't it?

Shopaholism is genetic...

So, I try not to watch too much TV, but the other night on MTV there was a show that I couldn't miss. It was called True Life: I'm a Shopaholic. The main reason I watched is because I was seriously fearful that I may have a problem. Turns out, I'm safe. Those girls were crazy! One girl would leave in the middle of a date just to go buy something! Let me tell you, if I was lucky enough to be on a date, I definitely would not leave it early! Also, they had maxed out ridiculous amounts of credit cards, and would buy clothes instead of paying bills. I am not that bad, by any means. I do blame my SMALL shopping problem on one individual though...my Dad. For example, here is the conversation I had with my father on Black Friday (for you ignorant fools, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. A.K.A. The biggest shopping day of the year).

Dad: Holly, did you buy my Christmas present yet?

Me: Um, er, well...no.

Dad: Ok, I went through all of the ads that were in the newspaper yesterday and I have compiled a list of everything that I want (Dad showing me a list of 20-30 items). I have also cut out the ads of the items I want and written on them what store they are at. So, which one do you want to buy me?

Me: What about it being a surprise?

Dad: Well, you have to pick one now because whatever you don't buy me, I am just going to go and buy myself.

Me: (Reaching for an ad) I guess I will take this one.

Dad: And you have to go buy it today because they are all on sale, and if it's not on sale, I don't want it.

My Dad is an amazing shopper, I just keep trying to live up to that! Also, when he opens presents he will ask where we got it, usually we will say something like, "Wal-Mart". He will then respond, "I saw it cheaper at Costco, I'm taking this back". Oh, how I love my father!

shop·a·hol·ic (shŏp'ə-hô'lĭk, -hŏl'ĭk) Pronunciation Key n. A person who shops compulsively or very frequently.

Honduras

I have been so slow at posting the pics from my vacation, that's why I have only done one post at a time. Honduras was definitely my favorite port. It was so gorgeous. It was by far the most depressed area, but everything was so beautiful there, especially the beach!

The crew on the way to the beach in Roatan, Honduras.

Us

The amazing beach
Heather, Me, Jami

My favorite picture.

Checkin out the goods.

Our "tradition" for each beach (I know, we're mature).

Dancers that welcomed us off the boat.

Jami on the left, Heather in the back, and Me on the right with some adorable kids that were playing in the alley.

Belize

Belize was the third Port that we went to. Half of the people that we went with were certified to Scuba dive, so while they were scuba diving, we set off to find an excursion of our own.

Belize.

The second you step off the cruise ship you are bombarded by people trying to sell you excursions. Jami had heard about an excursion where you can go cave tubing and zip-lining, so we were on a search for that specific excursion.

Mike, Heather, Craig, Me, and Jami. This is us right before cave-tubing. It was a 20-30 minute hike through the rain forest, then you get in the water with an inner tube and a guide took us through all of these amazing caves. It was awesome!
After the cave tubing, our guide took us to a place where they have 8 (I think) zip-lines. This is Jami and I getting ready.

Right before my first zip-lining experience (notice how the hat makes my head look skinny and attractive).

The view from one of the zip-lines.

The end of the day at Belize. We had to ride small boats back to the ship because the water was not deep enough for the ship to dock at port.

Cozumel

The last port that we went to was Cozumel (this was also the only Mexican port). We tried going snorkeling here (Cozumel is supposed to be in the top 10 for snorkeling) , but as we were about to walk over to the boat it sailed away.

Since Jami had spent around a month or so in Cozumel (living with a friend) she was able to tell us where the free beaches were and how to get there. We went to Paradise beach, which was just that, Paradise!

This is a boardwalk off of Paradise beach about 20 feet from where we were all laying out.

Roommates on the ship: Craig, Jami, Me, Spencer

We rented two Jeeps when we first got in to port and were able to drive all around the Island after a few hours at Paradise Beach.

We were on the Carnival Valor. This is our ship at Port in Cozumel next to another Carnival ship that had arrived after us.

There were cabin stewards that came and cleaned our room twice a day, which was sweet. At night they would turn down our beds, leave us chocolates, a schedule for the following day, and a different animal made out of towels. This was probably my favorite.

Halloween

So, for Halloween I had Janell, Blair, and Matt come over so we could get ready together for the Halloween dance. I hadn't been to a church dance in years and so I was questioning my ability to stick it out. We had fun getting ready together, and the Greek Gods were Matt's idea, which actually turned out to be a pretty cute costume. When we walked in the door I had flash-backs of being 15 years old (when my Dad literally forced me to go to the dances and shooting myself seemed like a better option).

Matt and I only lasted about 20 minutes at the dance until we decided to go rent a movie. By the way, the movie 1609, totally sucks.

I guess they gave out awards at the dance and Matt and I won "Best Couple". To bad we were busy watching a crappy movie.Blair was an adorable snowflake (I still have glitter in my carpet from her costume).

Friends. Janell was a lion in a cute little tutu.