Rocky Waters

Apparently Tropical Storm Sandy has quickly approached the bahamas and therefore we cannot go to 2 of our scheduled ports :( Right now we're in Grand Turk where its cloudy and ridiculously windy but at least the rain stopped.

Tomorrow we were supposed to be in Half Moon Cay but turns out that its not going to be safe for us to do the tenders to get to the island so they decided to cancel that one. We also can't dock in Freeport on Friday because it'll be too dangerous there as well so now we'll be going to Port Canaveral instead. I'm not THAT upset about missing Half Moon Cay because I was going to end up missing out on it anyway being HOD that day but now EVERYONE is missing it. A little selfish maybe, but I wanted to celebrate my birthday with a bang and if I couldn't do that on the island nobody could ;)

Tomorrow is my birthday though! 22!! Should be pretty cool I guess. Going to miss out on the birthday celebrations back home but I'm sure I'll have an incredible time with my ship family and friends. I'll also finally get to open the gifts that my family sent me that have been sitting in my room teasing me all week! Gah! There's also a halloween party tonight. Why it's a week early, not too sure but who cares. A party is a party! I'm not going to tell you what my costume is just yet, I'll wait to post pictures!

Not much of an update but I figured I owed you one cause my last one was such a debbie downer about my roommate. Who is actually moving out on the 28th because the lady that she's replacing is leaving! I'll have my room to myself for a few days until the new host gets here on Halloween next Wednesday!

and a picture of the atlantis just cause i love it there so much! I thought I would never ever get there now I'm there every week! dreams come true people - just sayin'

Wanted: New Roommate

my roommate is the most inconsiderate little bitch. waiting until 12:30am to take a shower when she's been in the room since 7:30pm, then going on to use the hair dryer right after. also, when she's IN the shower, she will turn on her music as loud as she can from OUTSIDE the washroom, so she can hear it IN the washroom while i'm still sitting out here. She doesn't ask if I mind or anything like that, she just does it. When she wakes up, she thinks turning on all the lights is a good thing. well its not. then leaving to go to work without turning off said lights. sorry, not cool either. being on the phone till 1am, also not very cool, especially when i can't even eavesdrop cause she's speaking thai. this morning, she wakes up extra early, thought it was to go to work. no. turns out she was just making lots of noise in her closets - all i could hear were zippers going, hangers moving, i thought maybe she was packing so i breathed a sigh of relief thinking she was packing to move out. nope! turns out, she was UNPACKING the rest of her damn things, which means woo hoo. she's staying. -_- i'm going to go crazy. if i hear 'are you done for today?' or 'what time you working today?' in her stupid thai accent one more time i might just have to kick her in the face (alright so that was a little violent and probably not going to happen but seriously) 2 can play at this game. I know with all the complaints I have about her I should tell her you know, be a little more considerate, but she is seriously like talking to a brick wall. I can't have a full out conversation with her - how she's a secretary for an american company is beyond me. if she's my roommate for the next 4 months, i don't know what i'm going to do. and i'm not even going to be the bigger person and ask to move out because 1) i was here first 2)who knows who the hell i would end up with next and 3)i don't want to pack. Oh great, she's back. Aaaand 'what time you working today?' first words out of her mouth to me when she realizes i'm awake. And excited to tell me she finally got her formal uniform. -_- I don't care. Oh, of course now she's being nice and considerate asking if I need to use the washroom for anything before she takes a shower and making me feel bad for writing this whole thing. but gosh, i had to get it out.

Hello, Is It Me You're Looking For?

I'm still here! I promise. Okay so I haven't updated in a long time.. and I actually started making notes of what I've been doing since October 5th so this is a long time coming. Well as of right now it is 11 days till my birthday so get your cards all sent. I'm just kidding ;) But really. Cards are lovely. 

So on October 3rd myself, Mary Margaret, Megan, Craig, and Art all went to Magic Kingdom for the day. I posted pictures from that adventure a while ago so hopefully you got a chance to check them out and see that I had an absolutely amazing time! We went on quite a few rides for the amount of time we spent there - it was nice going in early October cause there was NO one there. The longest we had to wait in line was for Splash Mountain which was all of maybe 15 minutes. We went on Space Mountain, Stitches Great Escape, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, the Dumbo ride, It's a Small World, that Test Drive track whatever its called, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion. Nothings changed since I was there when I was 10 - and I still loved every minute of it!

The next day a huge group of went to a resort called Breezes in Nassau. Well now that was a good time. You pay $60 bucks for all you can eat, all you can drink - and by drink, its all alcohol - so you could say a few of us left a little wobbly. We did this challenge called the rainbow where you have to drink a drink from every colour of the rainbow - ROYGBIV anyone? Yeah we did all of them. And then some more. Some people started a second rainbow. I don't think I did … I may have though I can't remember. It's all a little blurry - thank God for the pictures. Or maybe not… depends how you look at it I suppose. 

This week I ended up back on HOD which is why I ended up being super busy and not on here that much. Saffie left last sunday :( but we got a new host, a guy named Levi from South Africa who's super chill and pretty funny when I can understand him between the mumbles and the kiwi accent.  I only had like a week off and back on crazy host on duty stuff. I also survived calling my first bingo game which is pretty major for me I would say. I also survived my first show doing Sonny and Cher. I was Sonny -_- Apparently I will be getting a DVD and a photo so Mum you can expect those in the mail as soon as I get them.

Well, we shall see what this week brings and hopefully it'll be a good amount of sleep! Sending lots of love! 

Don't forget… my address for birthday cards is: 

Jodi Samler 454120 

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