Aloha!

T-minus SIX hours until I am in HAWAII !!!!!!!

 

You can just tell everyone on the boat is so excited to finally be here (or almost anyways). Everyone has so much energy and everyone is comparing who is doing what trip and which beach everyone is going to and so on.

 

I've met some of the nicest people on this boat. Its not like back in Durango. I think its because everyone here has a common bond of SAS. Everyone is so friendly and eager to meet everyone.

 

Before each port we have "pre port" and its a meeting where we are told pretty much anything and everything we need to know about that port and contact information and such. We are given "green sheets" which contain information helpful to whichever port we are at and contact numbers and helpful street names and stuff.

 

After the meeting me and the girls I hang out with here (Lis, Lauren, Steph, and Kelcie) met up with one of our friends (Hoff) who said the front of the boat is finally open because we are finally in calm waters. So we headed up there and hung out for a while. Its semi bright with the moon out but we can still only see ocean and horizon in the distance.

 

Oh also- at dinner is was Steph's birthday yesterday so at dinner tonight the serving staff brought her probably the biggest ice cream cake ive ever seen and everyone and their mom sang happy birthday to her. it was cute and I got a huge slice of ice cream cake which is like the best thing ive eaten in a week.

 

I was talking with a big group of people tonight and we were all saying we never want to go home and we want to stay on the ship forever. Its like a floating paradise. Its so amazing. Especially for someone like me who is obsessed with the beach and the ocean and warm weather! It was nice being at the front of the boat in capris and a tank top on January 24 and not feeling cold at all. Definitely my kinda of weather.

 

Anyway. We hear were supposedly going to get land sick tomorrow. So seeing how sea sick I got, ill probably get land sick too.

 

As for tomorrow, we get up at 6:00 am and our seas (or our area of cabins) will be called to go through immigration stuff and then we will hopefully be getting off the boat around 10 im guessing..im not too sure. Then all of us are going to kind of just explore and lay out on the beach maybe do a little shopping. Were all doing a lu'au at 4:30 till I think 9:30 so that should be fun. Then a lot of SAS kids are going to get hotel rooms and throw parties in there, so we might be headed that way after the lu'au!

 

I'm absolutely ecstatic! Hopefully my phone will be working then too! (a week with out it and real internet has been a little rough-definitely going through withdrawals)