Also in August I had a very important birthday....Y'all I am 26! I am officially on the other side of 25. I think I can be classified as "mid-to-late 20's" now. Wow!
At the end of August, Jer and I went on a much needed vacation. We went on a Carribbean cruise. We had a lot of fun. We went to Cozumel, Mexico first. While in Mexico, Jer and I went beginners scuba diving ("are you for scuba?").
This was actually quite a big deal for me...I am not a deep water person. Anyway, we made some friends on the cruise ship (Holla' Jess and Carrie) and they convinced us to go with them. Anyway, this is how it went.
We get to the scuba place and the instructor takes us down to this room to give us instructions on how to scuba. So a couple things here. 1) The room had an echo so it was hard to hear, 2) english was this guy's second language so he was hard to understand, 3) we got a 15 minute instruction session and then he said "alright lets go to the water", and I was thinking "ummm....isn't this something that people have to spend hours getting certified for and I just sat through a 5 second instruction session and now I have to go do it...great!"
So we got down to the water and started going through all of the steps that we talked about in the instructional room. I immediately start freaking out because my brain is just not liking the idea of breathing underwater. Next, the instructor starts to take us deeper into the water, and again I start freaking out because I can't figure out how to "pressurize" (if you don't pressurize you can really damage your lungs and sinuses). Well I am happy to report that after I got the breathing and the pressurizing all figured out, everything went fabulously. I actually had a lot of fun. We only went about 20 feet under the water, but both Jer and I agree that we would like to do this again.
Next we went to Roatan, Honduras where we just went to the beach. We had a great time here also. I played volleyball with bunch of people from the cruise ship. I didn't know them, but it only took me about 3 seconds to realize they were from New Jersey (all of the guys were Guidos). Also in Roaton, we went snorkeling as evidenced in the below photo (by the way, looking at our vacation pictures it looks like I am trying to bring back the "two thumbs up" in pictures).
The next location was Belize City, Belize. Here we got off the boat, got to the port, looked around and decided that we would not be venturing into the city. Belize City from what we have heard and what we saw, is not a fabulous place. We did however find a local company that took us snorkeling and then out to a private island. The snorkeling was fun and the island was pretty fun too. Here is a picture we took at the private island. (Posers!)
On the way back from the island, we saw some dolphins, two adults and a baby. They weren't close enough to touch, but I liked to see them all the same.
Lastly we went to Freeport, Bahams. We went to the beach, got a few hours of fun, and then the outlying storms as a result of hurricane Ike caught up with us and we had to go back to the ship.
When we got back from vacation, it was moving time again....except not for us this time. Our best friends, Corey and Nan were moving to California. This was very sad to me for a few reasons. Corey and Natalie were the first really good friends we made out here in Jersey. We did just about everything with them, in fact most of my memories of this area involve them. It was also a very sad event because Natalie and I were pretty much the same on the crazy scale (and I mean crazy in the nicest way). We were always singing something (even though I was never good) and we would laugh at all of the same things (particularly "mom jokes"). I put a few pictures in the below slideshow to show what ALWAYS happened when we were together with a camera. These are only a select few of the many pictures that we have like this. Finally I was sad because Natalie is pregnant and I am sad that I won't be able to be around for it. Anywho, we were very sad that they had to move, but we know that the friendships you make when you are an adult are so much stronger than those you make when you are children and teenagers so we know we will still see and talk to them.
Before Corey and Natalie moved, Natalie and I celebrated our birthdays by going to a Broadway show. We went to Gypsy, and it was amazing! It stared Patti LuPone (who I guess is a pretty big deal) and she really was amazing also. I would have never chose this play on my own, but luckily Natalie is a theater person and new the play well. I highly recommend the play. It is not for the kids, because it is based on the memoirs of a stipper named Gypsy Rose Lee (no worries there is no nudity).
Jer and I also saw another play when his brother came to visit. We went to a new musical "A Tale of Two Cities". A....maze....ing!. We loved it! Great story (I am actually to read the book now) and the actors (singers) they had were really really good. We were blown away, especially by the lead James Barbour (who played Sydney Carton).
And lastly...
Jer finally got his Playstation 3. He has wanted one for a long time. I made him save up his money and buy it. This was the only way I would led him get it. I didn't want it, I didn't think we needed it, so I didn't want to spend a penny on it. Well, Jer saved up the money he earns from assising a dentist every now and then, and he finally saved enough. I must say, I like it as well. The PS3 has blu-ray which is awesome. One of the first movies we watched with the blu-ray was Harry Potty: The Order of the Pheonix, the graphics and clarity of the movie was really cool.
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