Today is New Year’s Eve Day… it is like eighty something degrees here and I have worn my bathing suit ALL DAY LONG. This MUST happen every year now, cause I’m hooked! Even though all this random crap happened to me while on the cruise, I can’t wait to do another one! I’m sure that I’ll have pictures from tonight’s celebration for you guys tomorrow, but for now let’s discuss last night’s adventures and the AWESOMENESS that is the Barrier Reef.


Last night Abbie and I got to be the judges… along with some girl who looks like Rebecca from the show Brother’s and Sisters and we think is from Canada cause she says “Aye” ALL THE TIME! So we picked the person who would be Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Garth Brooks, and Elvis on the last night’s show. Needless to say that Chuck Currie (Abbie’s dad) is going to be Garth Brooks. The audience totally picked that one… and it was hysterical because we are now known throughout the ship! Seriously, I was in the MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN today flippers and all, standing on the reef and a guy still on the boat goes “Wait, you were the one who sang last night!!”. Only now we have more nicknames… “The Divas”, “The Chicago Girls”, “Singin Sisters”, and I am also “The Yodel Girl”. It’s like we’re famous, and it makes us laugh every time someone says something! So, Chicago is seriously representing on the Carnival Cruise Ship for that last Night.


Onto today… I got to snorkel on the barrier reef. I saw soooooo many different kinds of fish… sadly no Nemos. But I got to see some awesome stingrays and the coral was beautiful. I can’t wait to develop the pictures that I took with my underwater disposable camera, cause if they even show half of what I saw, they will be amazing. However, I did totally eat a lot of saltwater… ewww. And when we went out on the excursion, there was this group of girls who were the most obnoxious children that I have ever encountered in my life. At some point during the boat ride, they started playing Rock, Paper, Scissors… only they didn’t do it right… so then we heard “Rock, Paper, Scissors… SUN!”, “Rock, Paper, Scissors… WITCH!!!”, and our personal favorite… “Rock, Paper, Scissors… Barack Obama!!!!” We did laugh at that, but the rest of it was just annoying. So, snorkeling is AMAZING, and I get to do it again tomorrow on the barrier reef in Cozumel, so I’m really excited about it!

P.S. best thing from last night was right before dinner when we were waiting to sit down and are listening to an older brother tell his mom…” Well, if we sell him, we can get a Puppy.” And then just a little bit later… “I bet we could get at least fifty bucks!” Sooooo much fun!!

Our boat as we are leaving to snorkel in Belize.

Waves Breaking on the Barrier Reef.

The Fricket Bird… which I thought the man called the black Frickin’ bird. To me… it will always be the Black Frickin’ bird to me though.