The Cruise!

I still haven't got my Italy pictures on my computer sooooo I'm gonna tell ya about the cruise first. Ok? Ahem.

We went with all the cousins from ages 10 to 20 (plus some) and our grandparents. And some of the parents snuck in too. But not mine. Anyways.
The cruise left from Galveston, Texas. We drove. Fun fun... But we got to see The Alamo and the Housten Space Center on the way there. Cooooool Beans.
Here's a picture of the top part of the ship- which was HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!
The pool (one of the three). Yeah. It was full of clean, thank heavens, but salty water. Which was ok. Untill we started dunking and splashing eachother. I must of swallowed at least a gallon of salt water. Blech.
We also discovered this board thing. Ya know the sword game? King of the Hill? Chicken Fights? Yup. It was fun..... and salty.

From the ship... woah. Its writing in blue. That's weird. Alrighty then. Anyways. From the ship there was a beautiful view to watch the sunset...

...and sunrise.

And isn't this picture cool?

We went to Chiza- Izta. Or something like that. It was super cool.

We also went to Cozumel....

We went snorkeling.... and on 1500 feet of zip line!

haha... thats me

and curtis

and liddy

oh and this is from Chitza- Itza too.

My family.... well the ones that went anyways.

and these are some pictures from dinner.

which happened to be amazing! Alright. I'm done. Just kidding! wait. two more things.

well. actually three more.

1. I have been reading the sisterhood of the traveling pants. its really good!

2. I'm in love with this one song called Tower of Sand.... by Chris Merritt. Its good. listen to it.

and last but not least.... i accidently deleted it. whoops. i'll tell ya later.

bye!

Harry Potter 6, MoTab, and Italia.

Yesterday I went to Harry Potter 6 with my family.

It was really good! I was kinda mad at them though for adding this huge scene that never happened in the book. They skipped a ton too. But what do you expect when you've got to condense a HUGE book into 2 hours. Anyways. It was a blast.

Yesterday NIGHT me and my family went to a Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert. I was super jet lagged from Italy though so I slept through a lot of it.... but what I heard was really great.

Last but not least. Two nights ago I came back from Italy! We went to Rome and Florence and had a blast. I went with the Utah Valley Youth Symphony. It was great. I haven't downloaded my pictures on to my comp yet so hopefully I'll do another post on Italy and tell ya'll more about it k?

Alright.

Goodbye.

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Things I like

the gospel. where would i be without it.
violins. i hate practicing them. but i love them. the sound they make. how they feel, and how you feel when you play them.
sneezing. but i HATE not being able to sneeze. thats the worst. you get that itchy feeling in your nose. haha and i love this picture.
laughing. i laugh at every thing and this made me laugh. i know what your thinking- thats not funny. don't worry people think that a lot when they're around me...
platypus...es. platypi? whatever. i like the plural of platypus. not the word. the... meaning? ok i just confused myself. and there i go. laughing again.
old people! haha. don't you love 'em!? except score for boys because old men usually age better than old women. like have you ever seen enchanted? when she sings "thats how you know" and all the old people are giving eachother flowers and what not. the old men are so cute! the old women.... not so much
nature. because how can you not?
when my mom messes up when she talks. she's japanese so sometimes she makes mistakes :] when somebody said "i love you" she used to say "me too!" instead of "i love you too"
my family. especially our dinner conversation. if anyone else was there, they wouldn't know what the heck we were talking about because we have so many random inside jokes. which brings me to another thing i like:

inside jokes. which is kinda hypocritical because i hate it when people say inside jokes that i'm not "in" on.

p.s. this picture was taken on christmas- right after i got my camera. which again brings me to another thing i like:

christmas

candy. aghhh! i love candy. i love being hyper too which happens a lot because of...... candy. (dur dur duuuuurrrrrrr)
the last words of a book. i love reading them. especially when you finished a super long book/series, like the Lord of the Rings (another thing i like :] ) it makes you feel like... you earned them. EXCEPT for the last words of Gone With the Wind. After you read those you feel like someone drove you off a cliff!

two more things. i couldn't get a picture of either of them.

1. finally understanding something

and

2. remembering