Mexican Riviera

For Spring Break my friend and I went on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. Not only was it a nice break from work, but it was also a break from the cold, snowy weather of Utah. Our ports were Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. Even though my 30 SPF sunscreen was slathered on regularly, I still managed to get a burn. After the first day, I had to buy a cowboy hat so I at least could protect my face more. Obviously the most fun of the cruise was on our excursions at the various ports. In Cabo we parasailed silently and peacefully through the atmosphere while we took in the beautiful surroundings. While in Mazatlan, we catamaran-ed over to Deer Island for beach time, hiking, and ocean kayaking. Yet Puerto Vallarta had to be my favorite excursion with the speed-rafting, 4-wheeling, mule-riding, multi-zip-lining, waterfall rappelling adventure of a lifetime!! In comparison, the "days at sea" were much less eventful. But we did attend some healthy life-style seminars, ballroom & line-dancing classes, hot stone massage, and daily spa-ing in the hottubs and lap pool(that had a current & sometimes some wicked waves). We decided to have "toe" themed pictures so we tried to get some toes in all our activities.

Brian Regan

A few nights ago I went to see the comedian Brian Regan with my nephew, Jon, and his wife, Mandy. I had never gone to see a comedian before. I've had the tickets pinned on my cork board for a year!(It will look so empty, now that they are gone). Since I purchased the tickets last year, our seats were awesome! We were on the 6th row, right in the center! The seats were perfect! I liked not having to depend on the giant screen behind him to see him! And he was so hilarious! I haven't laughed that hard for that long of time in like forever! Good thing I wore water-proof mascara because I was laughing so hard that I was crying! Laughter is the best medicine!

Olympics

I've always enjoyed when the Olympics were going on, both summer and winter. Not only do I enjoy watching some of the competition, but I love the stories of the athletes overcoming their adversities and failures! It's so inspiring to me! And then there is the on-going drama happening during the Olympics! There's never a dull moment! When the Olympics were in SLC in 2002, I volunteered down at the Olympic Square, where all the sponsors had fun activities, where the medal ceremonies occurred, where the ice skating venue was , and a daily parade went through. It was an exhausting job but I absolutely loved it! I loved making new friends, seeing the athletes, going to events and even being able to use my Swedish for once! I think the Olympic games help the world be united for 2 weeks of the year!

Ballet

I have been to the ballet Swan Lake 3 times in my life. Each time I've gone with my sister, JoAnn, who loves ballet with a passion! I wouldn't call myself a lover of ballet, but I can enjoy the story line and graceful moves. Plus it's always amazing to see the strength they have in their leaps and how many times they can rotate around on their one foot again and again! JoAnn got me in the habit of counting how many rotations dancers do. I believe the most we saw the other night was 26 rotations. Ballet started for me when my sister took me to see the Cinderella ballet. And I loved it(but then again I love anything "Cinderella-ish" since it's my favorite fairytale)! The step-sisters were played by males and they had to purposely be ungraceful! So after that I went to the ballet with her. As long as there was a definite story line, I enjoyed it. But if it was just abstract ballet to music, then not so much. Anyway, so we saw Swan Lake a few weekends ago. It's a classic ballet! If you've seen the animated movie "Swan Princess" then you have the basic story line of the ballet(except in the movie Odette and the prince still live at the end). In Swan Princess, Odette and the prince kill themselves since they cannot be together on the earth. So then in the finale, the music comes to a crescendo and the couple meets together in heaven(in the foggy stuff). Well the 2nd time we saw Swan Lake, the 2 dancers missed their cue and came after the music crescendo and the fog was starting to leave. So we were a bit disappointed to miss the "finale". Needless to say, we were anticipating seeing the finale this last time. But as it happened, in this finale, Odette and the prince are hanging together from the clouds against a moonlit scene, but the lighting never went on them, so we couldn't even see them(friends who went the night before told us how beautiful it was)! So we missed the finale again! I swear we must have the curse of Swan Lake finales! So we came home and you-tubed a Swan Lake finale so we could see it properly!

Lasertag

I went lasertagging with Jake & Kristie for their activity with me (for last year). We had a fun time hiding from each other and shooting each other. The lasertag area we went to had a fun set up because there was an upstairs area too! I was pretty lousy at it but that's okay---it was still fun! Yes I lost both games! Afterwards we ate Chinese Food at The Dragon! Great food! And great company!