Cruise Ship @ MindSay

So after a nice long weekend at home, i'm about to head back to work. the plane is at 7:50, so got to set off at about 5:30ish. I want to go back but i want to stay with my family also. i'm torn in two - but i enjoy my job and i need the experience to get on a cruise ship. Thatbrings me to my next question....

Have any of you ever worked on a cruise ship? how did you go about it and how did you apply? what was it like? eWhat experience is needed? etc Any help will be grateful. :O)

I've uploaded some of my pictures. just trying to get them all done before i go back - but i know i wont manage it. i have a backlog of photos from january to upload. and  there is quite a few. i'll try get some up at work but i dont know how i will go about doing that. if i dont then it will be the end of august before i get some more up.

Well best go got a bit more packing to do. any help on the question will be great thanx.

We are back home from the cruise, and what a great cruise it was. The weather was great and the ocean was calm all week. We should have enough stuff to blog about for quite a while. We left the port in Ft. Lauderdale on Sunday and arrived in Freeport, Bahamas on Monday. Our shore excursion was a jeep tour of the island. Driving on the left side of the road took some getting used to.

 We first went to see some dolphins, then some of the local houses, then we went 4 wheeling though the countryside.

We stopped at a place called a "blue hole" which is a huge vertical cave filled with fresh water on top and salt water down deep. It is connected to the sea which is a few miles away and the water level changes with the tides.

 Then we hiked through a mangrove swamp.

There, we saw many fish including Nemo.

We had lunch on a beautiful beach and spent the afternoon there before driving back to the ship that evening.

We'll post more pictures on the www.countrydrive.com website and tell more about our adventures on the next blog.

So many may not know that, yes, there is something I go geek over, and that is Animorphs. Over on the Project Am website, they're creating an animated flash series of the books, but we also discuss them like they just came out...Anyhoo there's a big controversy over the way it ended (**spoilers**). I, for one, think its just the worst, laziest ending ever! It even negates the idea of doing suitable fanfiction without rewriting the ending. Well, I woke up this morning in a brainstorm, a bitter, angry brainstorm. I'm not a fanfiction type of person, but I did donate five minutes of my time to what may be considered sacriligious. And I still can't tell you whether its an end or a beginning.

Animorphs: The End

            Jake here. Again. Whew! Our suicidal mission in space was nearing its final culmination. I, Jake, renewed leader of the Animorphs, have just given my last order. Ever. When faced with little option, I could only do one thing: Ram the blade ship, so that’s what we did.

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 Animorphs: The End

            From any vantage point, the view would be spectacular but especially from here, on the outside looking in. The small, swift Rachel strung a path, not stealthily but deadly, toward its foe, its old friend. As it collides with the Blade Ship, one could say the site is destructive, dangerous…beautiful. She wound her way through its bulky mass, the two ships tangling, wrestling in a ring of stars, Rachel weaving into the Blade Ship, the Blade Ship melting, seeping, fading into the Rachel. With one final, fluid moment, The Rachel became the Blade Ship; the Blade ship became the Rachel, their steely souls embracing into one until both receded, faded, and finally disintegrated… into nothing.

            For one split, miniscule, point in space, the heavens, ever so slightly, stood still, paused, at once in awe, in confusion. Then all was continued, the universe reborn. As if it had never happened, never existed.

            At once, it was all gone, no yeerks, no strife, no andalites, no war, no humans, no life, and in the end…there were no Animorphs.

(P.S. Though their house is basically destroyed, and I'm shallow for being worried about my sister's computer, clothes, video games, and movies, my family is fine, and everything is okay, and my aunt has called us, so...big relief)