I'm in HAWAII- WOO HOO!!!!!

This was from our last week in Alaska~. Just the four singers hangin' out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ScpJI3gvGU

This youtube link will take you to the performance that we did of America the Beautiful during the farewell show on September 11th. I love that you can hear the audience singing along with us. It was very moving at the time. This was the performance where that guy made the comment that I was painful to hear! I guess I can let you guys be the judge! hahaha :)
(But if you agree you're not allowed to comment!!!! hahaha)

When John and I were in Astoria, OR we saw TONS of sea lions just hangin' out on the docks~.
This was the last night that John had any type of facial hair! He shaved it like this for 70's night!
Now we are officially in Hawaii and loving every second of it!!!

All I can say is: beautiful places, too much to do and not enough time, and I don't ever wanna leave! FINALLY - sunshine, beaches, lush vegetation - it's amazing!! SERIOUSLY! That black stuff is LAVA! ( I mean, it's dried up and rocky now, but still...)

The singers decided to go snorkeling at turtle beach! We saw turtles and a million gorgeous fish!!
Then we rode scooters and saw scenery like this!!!

We overnighted in Laheina (Maui) and decided to do a bike tour that started at 3 am. So, we had to be on the dock at 2:30 which meant we just didn't go to sleep that night. We went 10,000 ft. up this mountain where it was around 30 degrees (compared to the 90 degree whether we'd been experiencing at sea level) outside. Our group stayed up there just long enough to see the sun rise (GORGEOUS - of course) and then we rode bikes back to town - which was around 25 miles down hill. :) IT WAS AWESOME!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk-pEL2DRzM

The video link above is of an active volcano that we passed at midnight tonight! It was unreal to watch it smoking and sparking like crazy! (If you can't just click on the link, then copy it and paste it into your browser and then go from there. )

Well, I just wanted to try to update you guys with a few pictures and things! Hopefully more to come!!

BLESSINGS~*

Well, I guess I've been feeling like not much has changed, so I didn't have much to write about...BUT I've got a few things to share now!

It is Monday around lunch time and we are officially away from the cold and rainy Alaskan waters and headed towards warm sunny Hawaiian water!!! WOO HOO!

We docked in Vancouver, CA on Friday and had until 10 o'clock that evening to enjoy it. It was definitely a fun city with lots of shopping and plenty of things to see. Then we made our way through Victoria and on to Astoria, OR as of yesterday. Victoria was beautiful as well! The only good thing I can say about Astoria though is that it's the home of the Goonies movie!!!! ( Please tell me you've seen The Goonies?!!?!?!) The 80's movie about the kids who find a treasure map and go hunting for it while being chased by some creepy looking bank robbers, one of which had what I can only describe as a cyclopse eye....C'mon it's a classic! :) haha Anyway, yesterday I walked about 6 miles total to go and see this Goonies house and then when we got there we couldn't even figure out which one it was for sure because it was just a regular house that someone still lived in...Oh well, I took pictures of the 3 choices so one of them HAS to be the Goonies house and therefore I can say that I went there once! hahaha

Now we will be at sea for 4 days and should arrive in Laheina, Hawaii around lunch time Friday!! We actually get an overnight there so we will be in port until 7 pm the next night. It's going to be amazing! I'm going to have my first surfing lesson with Johnboy. Hopefully I'll get to see my first luau on Friday. I'm finally gonna see a BEACH!!! And I may go horseback riding the following day to get a tour of the area! We'll be in Hawaii for approximately 6 days and then we go through Fiji and Bora Bora. After that we will head to AUSTRALIA!

Let's see...in other news... If you haven't talked to either set of parents then you may not know this: I decided to verbally accept the offer to take the Legend contract in March. I won't get a written copy of my contract until this contract is finished, so there is still time for me to change my mind, but as of right now I'll be in Europe and Asia this time next year!!

Other than that I guess not much else has changed. The shows are still going really well! We've finally got them in our bodies so much that we don't really have to think about them any more...they just happen. We have a new cruise director now and he seems really pleased with this cast, so that's always good!

OH and we're NUMBER 1 IN THE FLEET this week!!!! WOO HOO!!!! We got the highest rating the Rhapsody has ever had in entertainment on the last cruise!!!!

You wanna know what's funny about that?? 2 cruises ago we had some really rude guests. A lot of people got complaints and bad comment cards. WELL - I got 2 bad comments about my performances!! I was actually devastated! hahaha No one ever wants to hear that they didn't do a good job. In my defense though - I was sick for most of that week so I probably wasn't at my best! Anyway, this is what one guy wrote:

" The 2 lead female singers are not good enough to be so loud in the shows. Especially the blonde lead - her rendition of America the Beautiful was actually painful!"

OUCH!!! PAINFUL???? REALLY??? Even on my worst day singing I've never been told that I was PAINFUL! GEEEEZZZ!!!! Yea, so that has been the going joke for the last week or so...everytime I try to be funny and joke with anyone in the cast they always come back with, "well, at least I'm not painful to listen to! ahhahaha". And then what do ya know - we end up first in the fleet...again! I guess the last cruise didn't find me as horrible to listen to after all! haha

Ok, I think that's all I know for now. OH, only 3 more weeks 'till my mama comes to visit me! YAY! FAMILY!!! :) Can't wait for that!

Hope all is well back home. I miss everyone, so please keep me updated on things!


Patiently counting down the hours until constant sunshine,
Kristian ;)