Just some quick photos from Chichen Itza. These are ones I have so far edited and corrected a bit. In time I’ll add more to my webshots and provide a link.

I really enjoyed seeing the place, but we had very little time there. Most of the day was spent traveling to and from. I told John one year we should do a tour of Mexico/Central America to get to all the places we haven’t seen. We also want to do Machu Picchu too.

I also added in two of the photos of us we had taken on the cruise.

Finally home, and had a blast! The internet on the ship was horrid, which is why I didn’t post here more. I did update my Tumblr as much as I could. So over the next week I’ll upload photos and post some stories. Loved seeing (and meeting!) the cast of “Hairspray.” Made some great new cruise friends. Loved seeing Chichen Itza. We’ve also booked next year’s cruise already.

-Dustin

Royal Caribbean has a private beach in Haiti, a very large one in fact, which they use for their ships while also employing the locals and helping the economy. We have been here a few times. It is nice enough, and I wouldn’t have bothered to get off the boat really. However I was on a quest! To buy some voodoo art for my classes. I had to wade through a lot of tourist art and pushy salesmen before hitting the jack pot. I originally made a video discussing all this, but it takes forever and a day to upload. So here are some photos instead.

I bought two things. One was a nice Skelton carving. The other was where I hit the jackpot as it was the only one I could find. Or the only one for sale that day. It appeared at first to be a little pestle and mortar carved out of wood, with the pestle being a effigy of a man. I thought yes! It was something for grinding herbs and making voodoo potions. That would be cool. But when I inspected closer I realized it was actually a fetish ….

I write this post from Ft. Lauderdale, as we are on vacation! We get on the big boat tomorrow, I’m so excited! I need a massage stat. I’ll do my best to put in an update or two, pictures will probably have to wait until we get back as usual. It’s sometimes hard to upload multiple photos and edit them while on the ship, but we shall see. I’ll definitely get one or two up, especially of Chichen Itza!

Definitely keep watching the Tumblr Blog over the next week. It will probably have photo updates posted to it more than here, as I can do so from my phone quickly and from wherever I am. I know tomorrow while we’re still in port and I have 3G I’ll probably post a ton there. During the cruise I can and probably will still do it via wireless internet, just not as much. I really should have set this blog up to pull in the feeds from that blog for this week. I didn’t realize it was as complicated as I originally thought until I just looked at, so I don’t know if I can do it tonight. I really don’t wanna screw something up.

Now let’s talk about “Days” for a second. I know I hadn’t made a video blog since November. One reason was because I got very busy. The other reason was the show got very dull. I had nothing to say! So why why why is it that every time I go away does the good shit happen? I mean they had to have this coming week to be when Will gets outed (or the beginning of his official outing by EJ)? I’m so friggen pissed! I’ve been watching and waiting months for this! When we used to cruise Carnival, they had satellite feeds and we could see real TV when we were in the cabin. Having now switched to Royal Caribbean, they have yet to have that. Maybe this year they will so I can see the show. I doubt it. Good thing there is Tivo and Hulu!

So we didn’t do much for New Years this year. Plans to go out kept falling through, and while we were invited to some parties, we just decided to stay in again (which is what we did last year). We watched the ball drop and some other movies, but that’s about it.

We did go out to dinner and I made John try wonton wrapped ahi tuna. Basically it’s raw tuna. I don’t know why I have gotten into this recently. I blame a friend who introduced me to it. John ate one piece just to try it. I made him after I pointed out that I had tried crab he ate recently. I also told him on our vacation I made reservations at the Asian place on the ship for lunch one day, so he’d be eating it again in some form

We are getting ready for our cruise and will be leaving shortly. I’m still excited to see Chichen Itza. I’ll do my best to blog as much as I can. Be sure to check my Tumblr Blog too, as it’s easy for me to quickly post photos to it from my phone.

Oh yeah . . . Happy New Year! It’s the year of the Mayan Apocalypse!

Once again, I let far too much time pass before I blogged. I’m hoping come the new year, I’ll get back into the swing of things. Especially when I get a break from stuff.

I’ve had a hard time getting into the holidays this year. Just been stressed, have a lot going on, and really haven’t wanted to drag all this stuff out. Last years holiday bad mood/break down of course has something to do with that!

I keep thinking I should bring back Twitter, since I’m not blogging as much. However honestly I find myself using Facebook not as often as I used to, and I’ve even gotten bad about Tumblr. I don’t know if Twitter will change things on that front. I just don’t have much going on, so I don’t have much to post!

As I started this post off, I’m hoping the new year will change things. John and I are going on another cruise in January. I debated a lot whether to do it, especially since our cruise friend Keith isn’t coming again this year, and neither is our other cruise friend Heidi. However another friend told me if I can swing it, do it, it would do us both well to get away from the Farm. So we are going, and I’m excited to say that for once Chichen Itza is an available tour to do. I have always wanted to see it, now I finally will! Sadly I’m somewhat too late though, as they’ve closed the pyramid from being climbed on anymore due to wear and tear on it Still, it will be awesome to see it!

Just a quick update. It’s our last day of vacation here in Williamsburg. Back to the real world tomorrow. Been having a lot of fun, even if it’s been 97-101 every day. Did Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. We are going on a ghost walk tonight, so maybe I’ll catch some ghosts on film? Below are a few photos from Williamsburg and Yorktown. I forgot my camera the day we went to Jamestown, so I had to use my phone. Fortunately I have a million photos from there from my trip 3 years ago. Mouse/Hover over a photo for a description of what the photo is of.

Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been a busy little bee this summer. I’ll shortly be getting a break, as I’m going to Williamsburg for about a week in about a week with my cruise friend Heidi.

Here is hoping we get a break from this insane heat! Alas as of right now, it’s supposed to be in the upper 90s, with two days at 99. I think I’m gunna have to go hit up Old Navy to buy some very cheap, very light weight t-shirts!

My garden has been giving me a headache this week. It took forever, but I finally started getting red tomatoes off my Topsy Turvy Tree. I have a million green ones though.

Unfortunately two of the ones I put in large planters, have gotten too large. One toppled over night, and the other toppled today in the heat. Yes I had staked and roped them, they still grew too big! I had to cut a lot off, and lost a lot of green tomatoes, but hopefully saved more. We’ll see.

Next year I think I’m just sticking with just the Topsy Turvys, lots of them. They don’t seem to grow as big as my planter ones did, but they are the ones not giving me a headache right now.

A few quick photos Hovering with a mouse should give captions.

So the vacation is officially over. We got off the boat yesterday and literally spent all day yesterday traveling to get home to New Jersey. I am so tired and so sore! Work starts tomorrow, which means I have to get everything ready today. We also have an ice/snow storm heading our way . . . is it bad to secretly hope the first day of classes are canceled

Once I’m settled and ready for work, I’ll start getting photos sorted, scanned and online. I’ll try and post some sneaks of a few soon.