Bahamas Cruise

We finally went on our Bahamas cruise that we have been so anxiously awaiting! It was fabulous and quite adventurous as well. Here is the whole story...So first of all we were goingto fly standby but then the night before we started to realize maybe everyone who can fly stanby found the same deal on the cruise

that we had so flights were overbooked and a ton of people on standby. Basically, there was

no way we were getting out without having to pay for our flights. Mind you its the day before the cruise and now we are looking at purchasing flights. We suck it up and decide to go ahead and spend our life's savings (I'm being

super dramatic) on some flights. I don't know if I posted about

this already but we are living with my parents

now renting out a room. Anywhoo...so we go into our room to pack and my mom comes running in and says this flight is for 7am! Its approx. 9am when she says this. Then I grab the paper and see it is for 7am on Monday the same day our returning flight is for.

I swore outloud in front of my mother. From working in the airlines previously and my mom working in them I know its going to cost us another fortune to change them unless they have some sort of 24 hour rule. So we call the airlines they are telling me they will waive the increase in fare but its going to be $150 per person to change so another $300 dollars

and then the supervisor gets on the phone basically

calls me stupid and Ben has Expedia on

the other phone they say no change fee they are just going to cancel and rebook

and we'll just pay what it normally costs. I say "Thanks, Buh Bye" sarcastically of course to the airlines and we are good to go. I have to have to have to mention this crazy guy we sat next to on the plane ride out I can't tell you how

many times he went to the bathroom and I wish I could show you how he passed me and Ben. He was sitting in the

window he would grab the eisle seats handle and take one large step to the eisle same thing coming back. We were dozing off and on throughout the flight

it was a red eye. We wake up because we are beginning to land and crazy guy is no

t buckled in next to me... UHHH?? I look at Ben??? Then I look and the floor and crazy leg man is lying in on the floor!!! WEIRD and CRAZY! The flight attendant passes us and I point to him and she wakes him up I am so not being that person. Ok so moving on. We get to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and everything is good for now. We flew into Fort Lauderdale because on our cruise itinerary said our port was in Fort Lauderdale. We come down the escalator and there are NCL cruise line reps who say $25 per person to take us to the port which doesn't make sense because the taxi driver is telling us $15 total but they are both saying different ports. So we call the cruise line. She asks ifI have our boarding pass.

Boarding pass what no?

She says they will DENY us boarding if we don't have it. What the hell???

***Side note this blog is becoming extremely long so I'm going to try and bipass some details*** We find a nice lady at the business center at the airport to print out our boarding passes and find that it's actually the Port of Miami which is about an hour away. Now Ben and I are normally not very supersticious but at this point we both have huge eyes wondering if this trip is really a good idea because so far things are not going very smoothly.

We make it to the cruise ship get some food take a nap life is good. We then

find out that unlike our other cruise there are cover

charges for some of the restaurants to eat at and we just eat alone at our own time. Oh well... it

was nice to just have time to ourselves. The next day we w

ere in Nassau, Bahamas. Here are some pictures upon arrival:

We bought an exurcision which was the Aquaadventure at the Atlantis Hotel.

This is the Atlantis Hotel...ITS HUGE!

For the aquaadventure you have an all day pass to the hotels water park and aquarium. They had some way fun slides one of which you got almost straight down into

shark infested waters...No joke!

I came out and Ben said I had serious fear in my eyes...hahaha

And here are some awesome pictures for the AMAZING aquarium. They had like a 12 foot sting ray but he was super quick I kept trying to catch a picture of him but he was too swift! Also, I so very much want one of the mini seahorses...

The last night on our cruise we stayed up on the front of the ship and watched the sunset it was absolutely gorgeous!

Our trip home was very uneventful compared to the trip out there. It was a much needed fabulous vacation!

Family In Town

Trevor, Amy and Ava came into town we haven't seen them since our wedding and we had not met Ava yet. It was a blast to have the whole family here we had so much fun! We went to the zoo went hiking and played a ton! We even had some professional family pictures taken with everyone including the new baby girls. Also while they were here Josslyn had her baby blessing.

Here are some photo's from the weekend none of the professional stuff is up yet.

Here are most of the girls after Josslyns blessing chilling in the backyard.

(Thanks Cat for getting the photo and being on top of things!)

And heres the whole fam after hiking to dog lake! Gorgeous fun hike!

Nieces!

I just have to put in a little note about our new nieces this year. Ava Morgan Parry and Josslyn Rae Parry they are just so dang adorable and here are pictures of them :)

ROTC

I've been trying to be better with keeping our blog updated but we are super super super super busy lately which makes it a bit difficult.

Bottom line comes down to Ben and I have been looking into joining the Nursing ROTC program. In order to contract and be a part of the program along with the scholarship you have to pass a physical fitness test and have a certain gpa. I also wanted to get my Associates degree out of the way. We decided to just sign up for the ROTC class and PT (physical training) classes through SLCC that are held with the Univ. of Utah and Westminster (they are combined). We LOVE it and are both planning on contracting in Dec/Jan. When we do contract it will be through the U of U but we will be going to Westminster, full tuition scholarship, housing allowance, and a monthy allowance to live off of as well. AMAZING right! We will both be graduating at the same time with our B.S.N. (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) and they we have to serve in the Army for 4 years after our graduation. Of course there is much more detail into all of this but I'll have 4 years to get that all posted on here so this is good for now.

The ROTC program is amazing so far and we have pretty much seen everything. The PT is held at 6am mon,wed, and fri up at the U of U and it is intense! I thought we were in pretty good shape...WAKE UP CALL! Holy guacamole! We love it though! It is a kick in the butt most days. For one hour it is usually a pretty intense workout: running, push ups, sit ups, pull ups, tire flips, squats, cattle bells, sprinting...Its insane. If you still aren't getting the picture I lost 6 pounds in about 2 weeks eating normal as a I usually do the only thing that changed was I started doing PT!

We also have a military science class up at the U which is mostly about leadership and the basic structure of the military. After class we have a lab where we learn all sort of different things and have hands on experience like land navigation, grenades as well as other stuff.

Its really neat and is definitely a great experience.

Work

For those who don't know I know work at 1800contacts and absolutely LOVE IT! More of that to come later!

People Are Awesome!

Two stories:
#1: In Ben and I's Geography class we have a wide range of different personalities. There is this girl and she apparently works at the Salt Lake Tribune in a very high up position or so she says. The other day in class the teacher is explaining how a globe or map is put into a grid system with the degrees, minutes and seconds. He goes on to show us a calculation if we were going 69 miles an hour and were to drive in a straight line around the world how long that would take us. It was just a fun theoretical thing he was throwing at us. Well Ms. Salt Lake Tribune blurts out "Thats not possible. You can't drive in straight line and there's water." Ben looks at me and I am like oh my gosh. It took everything I had not to say "are you serious? man, you should be the teacher!" I know that is probably really rude so all I said was " He was saying theoretically" and she gave me one of the nastiest looks ever it was Awesome!
#2: Today at my work we had a whole bunch of lovely prank callers. I don't know if it was just because of the holiday weekend or what but they were on the prowl. I was lucky enough to get one who's name was apparently Ilene Dover. Genius. Thats not the best part of this story though. I emailed my friend about this prank caller. Now my friend she is a very sweet girl but sometimes I worry about her and her thought process if you catch my drift. So, like I said I email her about my prank caller and about an hour later she emails me back and says... Hey, I got a prank caller too. Their name was Amanda Waffle, so I just hung up... I email her back saying I don't understand and her response is...Me neither so I just hung up.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! AWESOMENESS right there!