Our awesome Vegas weekend

So we decided back at the end of June that we wanted to go somewhere in July. Now if you know me, you know that by going somewhere, I mean on a plane. I have NO desire to 'go' to portland, as I've been there a zillion times and I want to relax. I know what you're thinking, Vegas?? Funny place to relax. But they have dirt cheap flights from Redmond and we haven't been in a few years and I've got some friends who live there, so yeah lets go there. Fast forward to the trip...

So we arrive at LAS airport and take the shuttle to the rental car area. We wait in line for 1 hour 15 minutes just to get our car. Once its our turn to be next in line, they send two people to lunch. Of course they do. So we finally get our car, and I'm cranky and want some food and to be to the hotel. Then it takes us over an hour to get to our hotel. For those of you who've never been the airport is literally all of like 2 miles from the Vegas strip. So driving on the strip sucks ass and there is all this road construction, so we finally took some back roads. (Thank goodness we lived there once upon a time) Finally we get to the Venetian. Now this is the hotel to stay at. Gorgeous huge rooms. And I may be a total dork, BUT their blinds and curtains are operated by a remote control, and I think that is pretty awesome. Let alone the TV in the bathroom. Ahhh yes, its everything I look for in a hotel. :)

So I had been texting my friend Tiffany ( who is a manager for the wayne brady show) about this show on the strip called Peep Show, its got Holly Madison from The Girls Next Door in it. I love that show, so I wanted to see if she had seen Peep Show and to see if it was really worth what they charge for the tickets. She said that she knows some of the dancers as they used to be in Wayne's show and that she hadn't seen it, but heard it was pretty good. So now I've gotta decide if I want to go to that show or the Chris Angel show. Then we head to the spa for a few hours. We get back to the hotel and are watching some tv and Tiffany texts me and tells me to call her at her work ext. I call her and she says, I just got tickets for you to go to Peep Show. WHAT! I'm so excited I'm jumping up and down, and then she says, but wait thats not all..... Hugh Hefner will be in the house and they will be filming an episode of Girls Next door, I literally started screaming SHUTUP, and running through the hotel , (Art was getting ice at this time) I'm freaking out, she got us another set of free tickets, and I'll get to see Hugh and the cast from Girls Next Door, and then I'll get to see Wayne Brady's show (cause super Tiffany got us tickets to that too!!!) ... This is awesome!!! Art comes in and I am jumping up and down telling him, he's looking at me like I'm crazy!!! So after I calm down we go downstairs to visit Tiffany (her office and the Wayne Brady show are also at the Venetian) we're standing there talking to her for a while right outside the Blue Man Group theatre and these two guys walk up and go hey did you just go to the Blue Man show, and we're like oh no, we're just talking to our friend, and he goes oh are you going to this show. Nope we say, and then he goes well I've got three extra tickets, you guys wanna go. I look at Tiffany like What is going on, she's like you're not selling those right and he says no they were comped and my friend bailed, they'll just be empty seats if you don't go. So we're like uhh yeah okay let's do it! So thanks to Tiffany, we've now gotten seats to 3 shows! Yes 3 shows. WOOOHOOOOO!!!

So the next day we hang out, go to the really crazy pool, eat and relax. Then its time for the show. So we get all dressed up and away to Planet Hollywood for Peep Show. I of course want a picture of Hef, so I make Art stand with my by all the crew from Girls and try and listen in. I tried asking them when he'd arrive, but the girl was a total bitch to me, so then we just listened in to their convo. :) About ten mins prior to showtime I hear them say, Hef just left the Palms. Okay well there is NO way he's going to make it before the show is suppose to start. Of course they won't start it without him either, but I don't want to not get my seat. So into the theatre we go. About 20 mins later Hef, the 3 girlfriends, Mary and Hef's brother all walk in. The crowd goes pretty wild. Half the people didn't know he would be there ( I wouldn't have either, if not for Tiffany) so they were freaking out. We couldn't take pictures, but it was pretty cool to see him. They used him onstage which was hilarious, I don't want to tell you, so you can watch the episode next season on E and think of me. So he walked pretty much right past us on the part below about 4 feet down from us, I yelled to Mary, but she didn't look. It was a fun night and you know I love my celebrities.

Next day is sunday, our last day. Sad. So Tiffany had told me in advance that Wayne uses people from the audience in his show, and was I going to volunteer. Uhh that would be a heck yes I'm going to. So we get to the show and she has gotten us front row seats!!! WOOHOO! I'm so excited, I feel like I'm going to pee my pants. Wayne Brady is a funny and good looking guy. So the show starts and I'm just in heaven watching him. He's hilarious! So then he's telling us about the volunteer part and asks for 4. Of course mine is the first hand in the air, and I'm like oh oh oh me me me. Yes I got called. Then onstage I go. YEAH!!! So me and the other 3 volunteers have to act out the words he's using in his skit. We didn't do so good, but we were fairly funny. Some of the words we did, were globe, where we spun one of the people, coffee machine, somehow we ended up hitting the girl and a really funny one was a sliding ladder from the library. Where the guy volunteer got on all fours and I jumped on his back, and the two ladies jumped on mine and I go now move, we must have looked like idiots. But it was fun fun fun!!! The show was AWESOME!! And sooo funny and he can sing and dance too! If you go to Vegas, get tickets and go to his show, its so good!!!

All in all it was a GREAT weekend!!! We had a blast at all the shows...Thanks again to my friend Tiffany for making it all happen!!! Viva Las Vegas

Ohhhhh the joys, yep its another poop story.

So here's one to make you laugh.

So our restrooms at work are public. I mean they are in our backroom, but we let our clients and everyone use them. People for some reason just LOVE to take a crap in our bathrooms. Its like oh I gotta go, let me go stink up the bathroom at Ann Taylor Loft. I have people come in just for the bathroom...so anyways, here's the story.

On Sunday it was clean the bathroom day and its my turn. That's fine, whatever. Its disgusting and we clean the toilet once a week. Since so many people love to take a crap in our lovely restroom, there are always poop spots...like how on earth does your poop get in those spots, I do NOT understand. So I get my plastic gloves on and squirt the crap (no pun intended) out of the toilet with the cleaner, I get it all clean and scrub inside and out so its all pretty and ready for the next client to come stink it up.

Later in the afternoon I tell Mieke (my co mgr) that I gotta pee and I'll be right back. I go in and low and behold....poop stains, I'm like you have GOT to be kidding me...seriously, it's only been clean for like 5 hours!!!! I start walking towards the toilet and I realize there is poop smeared on the top of the bowl, like right underneath the seat. It looked like someone seriously picked it up and smeared it on there. DISGUSTING.... I run out and tell Mieke she has to go check it out. Did I mention Mieke has horrible gag reflexes and gags at everything. She's like no way, I'm not going in there. She goes and checks it out and is like I'm not cleaning that, and I said well I'm not either cause I already cleaned it today. So I told her to just get some gloves and spray a bunch of cleaner and maybe since it was fairly fresh it would like just run down the bowl and she could just use a paper towel to clean up the side. I said I'd clean the rest if she'd just get that part. So she goes in for the cleaning in a few minutes.

About 5-6 minutes later she comes back out to the floor, I ask her if she survived... She said well I sprayed it and it started running down and it was making me gag, I'm laughing a little, I'm not going to lie... and then she goes and then I went to clean it, and my keys broke and fell into the toilet. OHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYY GOSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH....I had to run to the back I was laughing so hard, I nearly peed my pants.... Her keys to the store fell into the toilet that now had poop dripping into it. She had to reach in and get them. I don't think I have ever laughed so hard at work in my entire life. If you only knew Mieke, and then thinking how funny the story is anyways....oh my gosh , her keys falling into the poopy water, and having to get them. Its just what timing those keys had deciding to break and fall in right then. Ohhhh the life of retail. Never a dull moment...Never.

So when did I miss ....

So when did I miss this memo coming out that taking your kids into a retail store was like taking them to the babysitter or childcare facility...meaning...

1) You do not need to watch your children in the store, its fine, that IS totally part of my job!
2) Its totally OKAY that they jump all over the fixtures and pull clothes down, and step on manni's and try to knock them over.
3) Its also totally fine that your children play with our window displays, as in we LOVE it when you shop in the back of the store and your sooooo "cute" child climbs on a ladder for display in the window, or thinks the big holiday loft letters are a jungle gym.
4) We also LOVE it when the husbands watch as they destroy the window displays, and when I so nicely ask, ohh hey could you please not have them play in there, I really don't want them to get hurt. And their response is well there shouldn't be things in here that can hurt them, they aren't doing anything wrong..... I'm SORRY WHAT?!?!?!?
did you seriously just say that it was OKAY for your child to be playing in our windows on things that could fall and hurt them, and then tell me that it was my fault. As if your child is so perfect and gods gift that they can literally play with whatever they want in the entire world. Oh yes, thats why we have so many spoiled brats today...thanks for clearing that one up.

Okay okay okay...I'm NOT a babysitter. I enjoy cute children who are well behaved...I'm about sick and frickin tired of all the moms who are bored at home, so they decide to bring their bratty kids into the store and let them run WILD throughout the store while they shop. Every five minutes you'll hear ohhh honey don't do that. They don't even know what they are doing because they can't even SEE where their child is at. It is sooo annoying!!!! We are not NOT NOT babysitters!!!! If your child is a brat, that is what strollers are for. Put them in one. Seriously. I'm sick of keeping an eye out for your childs safety and ensuring that they are ruining things in the store because you don't feel like watching them, and society has deemed it okay for you to leave your kids running wild through the store while you just ignore them and shop....ah yai yai. (sp??) Its really really obnoxious. That would be the equivalent to me coming to your house, yes you the complete stranger who I am sure is reading this, and me being like nope I don't want to talk to you, then pulling out all the pans in your kitchen and hiding them through the house, then standing on your furniture with my dirty shoes on and the proceeding to jump off you couch as high as I can , and really not care if you are bothered by it.

So if you are one of those parents (and I know most of my readers are NOT them) or if you know them....please tell them to stop being so frickin annoying. We aren't your babysitters so stop treating us like them. Thank you.

Hawaii....ALOHAAAAA

So we went to Hawaii last week for our 8 year anniversary! I've never been to Hawaii before, but Art has been twice. We decided to go to Maui, since thats an island he's never been to. We decided to go cheap, as in we stayed at a condo type hotel and brought food with us. This is totally new for us, we are usually hotel then eat out. But since we just went on our super duper Sandals vaca we decided it was probably smarter to go cheap.

We stayed at the Maui Kaanapali Villas, which now are called Aston Kaanapali Shores (online, but when you get there its still the first name..) it was an awesome location. And VERY quiet. Hardly any bratty kids there, and not many people hanging around the resort either. Thats how I like it. The pools were AWESOME (except that they all had a deep end...I no me gusta!) they were soooo warm. I'm talking like a bath. Usually no matter where we are the pool always seems a little cold when you first put your foot in. But then once you get all the way in, its usually fine. This one I put my foot in and I was like oh my gosh, I just went to heaven. Art is thinking, oh lord help us, Rebekah is going to want to stay in all day. Its true, I love love love the pool. So our room is nice too, all the rooms are decorated different since they're all individually owned. Ours was fine, kind of what I expected. But there were some rooms we saw that had just been done up with fancy schmancy decor... Thats okay. Who needs that. Resort is good, we like it.

So lets see here. We mostly just hung out at the pool or the beach everyday. We only were there for 5 days, so we didn't have a ton of time, since half the first and last day were travel days. On Friday I decided I would try snorkeling. I got in and there are some waves there, not big ones but enough that pushes you up quite a bit. I put my head in and was like oh hell no. So I told Art he could go out by himself. I stay up on the beach and enjoy the sun and watch as he swims way out. He goes out for probably a half hour, then he comes and tells me all about the cool stuff he saw. Now I want to try it again. So I have Art go rent me a lifevest. There is no way in hell I am trying this again without one. So he goes and gets one. There is a lady in the water who is helping me relax, telling me to say, I used to be afraid of the water, but not today, the water can't hurt me. I'm thinking okay thats lovely, but it could hurt me if I drown, or if a shark attacks me. The worst part on this beach is the getting into the water with your snorkel stuff. The waves hit you so much that its hard to even stand up, so with putting all that crap on, its a difficult task to get in without falling over. I do it, and at first I'm breathing really hard, and kind of scared. I make Art hold my hand the entire time. As I'm terrified to do this alone. So we start swimming around and we do see a bunch of awesome fish. I knew it was getting deeper. I estimated it was probably like 10-12 feet, Art smiled and said okay if thats what you think. (He didn't want me to know it was probably at least 15 or more) And same thing, at first I was freaking a little, but then I just took a deep breath and thought okay I can breathe and I have a lifevest on, I'm safe. Tons of yellow orange and blue fish, oh and some black and white polka dot ones too. Those ones are funny. We snorkel for a while and then I'm like okay I need a break. We go back out a while later to a different spot and see even more fish.

The next day we decide to go exploring on the island. So we saw a ton of different beaches, took a million pictures, and just had a great time together. Nothing too exciting this day, so onto Sunday we'll go. A couple at the resort had told us about this really cool snorkeling place (see pic up top) so we went on an adventure to find it. And we did. We stopped up top at the lookout and it looks gorgeous. We see a ton of people. We get down to the ocean and its all rocky, we had brought our watersocks, mostly because I don't feel comfortable with the flippers yet. And also thankfully with how slippery the rocks were, the watersocks were much easier than flippers would have been. So at first the water is super merky (sp??) you can't really see anything, then I'm like hmmm...okay whatever. So we swim out a ways. We start seeing some fish after a while, pretty much the same as the ones by the resort. We swim over to where a bunch of other people are and see a HUGE school of fish. I'm talking like at least a thousand. They were all over the place! This one girl is freaking out, she thinks they're going to eat her or something. They were fairly big fish for how many there were. They were like the ones of finding nemo...when one switched direction, they all did. So we swam around with them for a while. We went pretty deep here, and I knew it, and I didn't even freak out. We went out where the boat/catamaran is in the picture. (Yes I had rented the lifevest for the entire day) I'd say we were at least 20 ft, maybe more, who knows. But at least that deep. So we hung out here for a couple hours and decided we'd seen enough. On the way back in, it seemed like there was nothing for the entire way back and it was taking forever. Then when we were almost back we saw this AWESOME fish it was like 4 different neon colors and sooo BRIGHT! Neither of us had seen this kind anywhere else. Then right next to him was this neon yellow long fish like a foot long and really skinny with a point nose. They were both really cool. Done snorkeling here. We didn't see any seaturtles, which is what I really wanted to see. So we decide maybe we'll try blackrock which is suppose to be the best snorkeling in Maui, and just happens to be right next to our hotel.

Once we get there, there is a TON of people and I'm like nope, actually I'm pretty done. (Having my ears in the water for so long, kinda gave me a headache) Art goes out and not two mins later I hear someone shout there's a seaturtle. Art looks up and I've already got my stuff and I'm running into the ocean. I get out there a bit and don't know where they had seen him. Then I hear someone say oh here he is. So I'm trying to run back in (wasn't too deep) but its hard as the water is so choppy. Finally I get to where the guy is saying he is and I put my head in. HOLY CRAP ( okay actually I yelled Holy S%&*) because the thing was HUUUUGGGGEEE. I seriously could not believe my eyes. It was insane. I swear he was like the size of my four wheeler. He starts swimming away and I could not keep up with him. But it was AWESOME, and then I found Art and I was like okay I'm done, saw my seaturtle.

So I snorkeled in deep water, which is a big actually huge accomplishment for me. And other than that we just hung out, relaxed and spent time together. It was a great quick getaway. Wishing I was still there. I'll be putting up a separate blog on our dinner at Roys. But since this one is so long, I figured I better just stop it now!!

Ohhh except for one thing. Something we did to entertain ourselves was taking "action shots" on the camera. So we'd jump in the air, and catch every motion in pics on the camera. So here are our pics from that. The one of Art made me laugh for AT LEAST two hours straight!!! I told him to jump up and click his heels to the side. You know how people do that like on movies and stuff. Well he has no CLUE what I am talking about, and this is the end result. Ohhh lord, reminds me of danceteam. This picture is my new favorite. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do!!!

Days 3 and 4 in Antigua

Well I'm starting to not remember everything quite as clear from last week...sooo I'll try and remember the exciting parts!

Monday day 3, actually I have NO clue what we did during the day, it was either hanging out at the beach or hanging out at the pool. So we did one of those. Then they had a scavenger hunt for returning guests. We thought it would be like the one last year where you have to find stuff and take pics of it on your digital camera. But no, we just had to run around the resort and find balloons, that had point amounts int them, and bring them back where they would pop them and add up the points to determine the winner. There is this big obnoxious guy there, who is telling us all that we are living on his land for free, because he is an Indian and he was here first, then he starts bringing up politics and other things, so I just decided to walk away from him. He's being a jackass, and you can tell everyone is annoyed...Its time to start...Art and I split up and go running once they say go. I find one right away and then go into the pub where I find three more balloons, I don't want to drop them so I stick them all in my shirt. It made everyone I passed by laugh alot, which is always good. We searched for another like 30 mins, art found 5, but I didn't find any other balloons after my initial four.

I go back and they start counting my balloons, and I'm holding my last one and the big indian man comes and takes it, I laugh like ha ha you are so funny. Then I'm like okay give it back, he says nope, it says where ever I find one and this is where I found it. All the employees are like give it back to her. We go back and forth for probably like 3-4 mins of him being a jerk. I tell him to give it back or I'm going to kick him somewhere, he says go ahead, then I'll stick my wife on you and she's 6 ft. I tell him I don't care how tall she is, cause I'll just sit on her. Then he's like it doesn't matter you're going to get second place just like at name that tune last night. Then he's like and second place is way worse than last.... REALLY ?? How do you figure, for second place I would get $100 gift certificate and he'd get nothing for last. Anyways, then the couple who won first place comes in, and they had a CRAP load of balloons.... They won a couples massage, but hey I'm still okay with the gift certificate. The big indian dude is still going on and on and on, and we just walk away. I now HATE this man. (I'm telling you, because he's in future posts)

That night they had Caribbean night at the beach with a big buffet out on the sand. We went to that and ate ALOT of food. :) After dinner we went to a fire dancing show. The guy was really good, and then he did limbo, and he went under the limbo bar at about 7 inches. It was INSANE!! I've never seen someone be able to bend like that before.

Tuesday Day 4. Again I'm not sure what we did during the day, beach and pool and lotsa drinks I'm assuming.... For dinner we headed to Kimonos, its Teppenyaki (sp??) style where they make it on the big grill thing right in front of you. We met The Dr's there ( Ryan and Ashley) and Glenn and Brittany who were getting married at the resort on Thursday. We chatted with them about all the sandals and all the cool things you can have your butlers do. They were the first people we had talked to who also had butler service. Then we found out that Glenn and Brittany were staying in the villas which I wanted to see, and that the Drs were staying in the penthouse which we wanted to see as well. Then come to find out they all wanted to see our Rondoval. So after dinner and dessert we went around and toured the rooms. Glenn and Brittanys villa was very nice, has a pool and private hot tub, which was sweet! And the Dr's had a room quite similar only they had an AMAZING view of the ocean ... So its like you pick a view, or a pool. I like pool, so I'm glad with our room still.

After this its time to head to the Lovers Game. This is a game that we all signed up for and then they'd pick 6 couples to play. Think the newlywed game. Embarrassing and hilarious. So we're sitting there talking to the other 2 couples, when all of a sudden I hear room 314...ohhhhh lordy...thats our room. Because of course, I mean OF COURSE, out of the 50 couples who signed up we'd be one of the 6 that is chosen. I'm instantly like, ohhhh no I think I'm going to throw up. We'd just met these nice couples, and had about 10 other couples of friends in the audience. Once we get up, all our friends start laughing hysterically and cheering. This is NOT good!!! So the way it works is the guys stay out and get asked q's first, while the women go into the bar so we can't hear. I won't tell you the answers or all of the questions...my parents read this for goodness sakes. So I may put a few risque ones in, but not all. :) so we are finally allowed to go back out, and its time for us to answer the same questions, whoever matches their lovers answers gets a point, who ever gets the most points wins.... easy enough right?? Wrong...

These are the questions they asked the guys, and we have to answer what we THINK they answered!

Q1) Whats your wifes bra size....okay I'm not telling everyone my bra size, but we were the only couple to get this WRONG!!! So now I'm like ohhhh no, what have we gotten ourselves into??

Q2) What item of clothing do you HATE when your lover wears... I have no clue, then Brittany mouths high heels..I'm like what, and she mouths it again, one of the other girls sees and goes CHEATER! The girl who's turn it is says high heels, and is right, so I assume its her answer too. But alas I say PJ's or sweats, and my answer was high heels...ughhh, another one wrong.

Q3) If you could get rid of one person in your wifes family who would it be. Now for obvious reasons, I'm not putting that up here, but alas...guess what...we got it WRONG!!! So we're 0 for 3 now...And we're the only ones who've been married over like 1 week. This is getting embarrassing.

Q4) Whats something you've been begging your lover for that they refuse to do. I'm thinking, hmmm well we've always been pretty clear on the things not happening, so I'm going to say nothing. So of course when its my turn I say, I'm awesome...nothing. And everyone is dying laughing. I get it right, and HOORAY we finally have one point. I can't tell you what the other couples said, but let me just say I was laughing so hard, I almost peed my pants. Play this game if you ever go to Sandals...

Now its reverse time. Ohhh wait, let me also say Art and I had been practicing questions all day just in case we get called, of course they don't ask any q's we had practiced. But our butler did tell us that they do a multiple choice one most times...So we agree we should just pick a letter no matter what and stick to it. I ask Art, but what if its humiliating, he says No, stick to the plan, we'll get over it, and it'll help us win... (you'll need to know that multiple choice part for later)

Okay so its guys turn to go into the bar, and girls turn to answer q's.

Q1) What is the weirdest gift he's ever given you. I answer nothing, we save for vaca's usually, and when he does buy gifts, they're pretty good.

Q2) If you could change one thing physically about your man, what would it be. I say his insanely large neck, because its impossible to buy dress shirts for.

Q3) what is something he does that drives you CRAZY and you wish he'd stop. Right after the host says this I'm like ohhh pick me pick me, I don't need to think about it. He comes over and I say, he's picky, he picks at everything, he's a pickypooh...thats what I call him

Q4) If you had to rate your lover which of the following MULTIPLE choice answers would you rate him as.

a- he's long and boring like to flight to antigua....yaaawwwnnn are we there yet, can I get some peanuts..

b- he's like the energizer bunny, he keeps going and going and going

c- BAM...he's wham bam thank you maam.

Okay sooooo....we'd already decided to go with A regardless of the answer. So as soon as he asks the question, I'm like dying, I drop my head and want to run away...but alas I stick to the plan and say A...the Crowd is like....huuuuuu, you know the noise of shock...no laughter here, the host is like man, you are MEAN!

So the guys come out to answer

Q1) Art says nothing...hoorrayyyyy a point, that makes two!

Q2) he says his nose...we get it wrong. Shocker, since we're totally LOSING! Two of the girls had answered stomach, and the guy from couple 6 was NOT happy when he heard this. If was quite funny to the rest of us!

Q3) Art is like, ohhhh I know this one, and he goes I'm a pickypooh...the crowd is dying laughing that he says the exact same thing, and the host is like, mannn what the hell is that. He explains.

Q4) Arts reaction is about the same as mine, head goes down in shame, and he answers a, and the crowd again is like totally shocked....We're sooo humiliated, and the new couples we've met are like, oh my gosh!!!

Anywho, to say the least we totally lost, then I had to go tell everyone about the multiple choice question, because they were all thinking, whats going on...so it was a hilarious night, even though we didn't win. So thats the end of day 3 and 4. The couples game was much more funny, but like I said, for OBVIOUS reasons, I'm not putting the answers from the other couples up here, because I think some people would not appreciate it, and I'm polite what can I say!

Days 1 and 2 in Antigua

Day one will go by pretty quick since we got to the resort around 4 and were in bed by 8. :) So we show up and it takes a while for check in. We're suppose to get to go into the special butler room, but no one takes us...sad. But I'll live, I'm in paradise. Finally our butler Cicell comes and gets us and takes us to our rondoval. Its the room I've been wanting to stay in forever, and at last I get to see it. Its an adorable little round house with our own private pool in back and big beautiful flowers all over. I love it! Its WAYYYY smaller than our previous rooms, but its adorable and only about 300 feet from the beach. I'm in heaven.

We tell the butler all the things we need, breakfast every morning at 9 and our order, and that we like to eat early for dinner, and that we want him to book all our dinners. So that night we go to Marios for dinner. We're practically zombies at dinner after our 27 hours of traveling with no sleep...so we decide after dinner its time for bed...We sleep a good 12 hours and wake up around 8:45 the next day...just in time to get our room service delivered and eat it out on our patio next to the pool. Now this is the life.

After breakfast its time to put on swimsuits and load up on sunblock and head to the beach. Its a beautiful HUGE beach, but it is public. Boo to this. Meaning anyone can walk around it, so there were kids wandering up and down the beach from the neighboring resorts, but they were pretty well behaved...so its all good. I just laid on the lounger for hours, its soooo beautiful that you can just let the entire day drift away while laying there watching the ocean and staring at all its beautiful colors. We decide to go up and go to the big pool for a while, and its a little cold. Not really, its just I was being a sissy. So we get in and have some drinks from the swim up bar, ahhhh now thats nice.

Next its time for dinner, so we get all dolled up and meet our other butler Maureen for the first time and she walks us over to our dinner where she has flowers all over the table for us, and its the restaurant on the beach. Its gorgeous. Arthur has a fun experience while at dinner. In Antigua there are a MILLION little lizard like gecko things, they're all over the place. Totally harmless and quite amusing to watch. Well during dinner, Art has something fall on his shoulder, swipes it off and looks down and its the body of a roach!!! Its moving all around, only it doesn't have a head, Art looks up and sees the little lizards chomping away on the roaches body, guess it wasn't hungry enough for the body! SICCKKKKK!!! So that was entertaining.

After dinner we saw Ken and Susan from the plane and sat with them for a while and just chatted and got to know them. After a little while its time for Name that Tune. So we decide we'll play. They have a DJ and a lady calling on people to answer it. Samantha was the employee with that job, well she keeps picking on the front table, and everyone is getting annoyed that she keeps picking them. She's suppose to call on the first hand she sees. Now granted they knew ALOT of songs that other people didn't....BUTTT they weren't always the first ones with their hands up. So the audience is getting annoyed, then the DJ tells her for everytime she calls on the wrong table she has to do a shot...so the audience gets into this, and keeps yelling shot shot shot, everytime we didn't like who she called on. So she keeps calling on the front table, and when its quiet for a second I yell...HEY TABLE ONE...and the lady turns around and I go...ITS ON, you're going down!!! She's like bring it...So we started a little fun war with them. Then me and Ken had to go up and dance to Michael Jackson in front of EVERYONE, thank goodness he offered to go up with me, there is no way Art was going up to dance. The crowd enjoyed Kens MJ moves. A little while later we had to go up and do the Macarana, which is always a crowd pleaser, so I went up and then pulled someone else with me.

Towards the end, they tell us they are going to do a tally on chips (everytime you got a song right, you got a chip) so all these people keep coming up to me going we want you to take out table one, so take our chips...I'm excited we might actually beat them. I've been glaring and talking trash to them all night, so it would be awesome to kick their butts...Well then I realize we're one chip away from tying with them, I look around and ask someone if I can have their chip and then the DJ is like CHEATER....you can't do that!!! Everyone was like yes she can, we gave them to her, so I took my chips up and tried to tie for first place...but the DJ wasn't having it...so then table one decided to start yelling SHOT SHOT SHOT!! ohhh no.....i do NOT do shots...yuck...but they keep going and eventually the DJ gets everyone to start chanting. Might I add this was not a normal size shot, but more like 8 oz of straight hard alcohol. I tell them I won't do it unless they admit we tied...they won't and I'm not getting off the hook here, I do the shot and its NASTY!!! Yuckkkkkk...Everyone cheers!

Name that tune is over and then a band comes out and starts playing and its dancing time. I make friends with Pam and Mary of table one, they were quite fun. Then I start a conga line and after that a limbo line....what can I say, I like to start things and make sure everyone is having fun. After starting those, I met alot of people and had lots of new friends, who as the week progressed would always glare at Pam and Mary of table one from the infamous name that tune night. I also got the nickname of troublemaker from that night...hmmm imagine that. After that it was definitely bed time, we'd had a great real first day, dancing, drinks, fake fights, limbo, conga line and a whole lot more. We were pooped.....