Our Grateful Life

Swimmin' up a sweat...

We have dinner reservations tonight at 9:00 pm so we're hanging out in the lobby while we wait. Chris discovered that if we moved from one side of the lobby to the other, we get 5 bars.

That's a significant improvement.

Today's adventures were "Aquacize" and snorkeling.  There were 30 people at the pool when we arrived for this morning's water aerobics class.  Out of those 30, only 2 of us were there for the class.  Myself and the other skinniest woman at the pool.  The rest of the old farts got a front row seat, a cold beverage and sat back to laugh at us for the next 30 minutes.   And I'm fairly certain we were in fact quite funny.  Water aerobics is kind stupid looking.  However, it didn't feel that funny about 30 minutes after the class when I had to drag myself up off the lounge chair to lunch.  I was motivated only by my growling tummy and our next scheduled event, snorkeling.

After a very healthy lunch full of french fries, we headed for our first snorkeling lesson.  Not bad.  Those flippers work pretty well.  Chris said he felt like we were reenacting the scene from Austin Powers.  Don't know about that.  Never seen it (oh stop, Fanny, you knew that about me already).   As luck would have it, we went snorkeling with our old farts from this morning's class.  They thought I didn't recognize them until the women so nicely told me to be careful climbing down the ladder and I sarcastically responded that I had already done a workout today so my muscles were working just fine, thank you very much.  One of them said, "I knew she knew who we were.  Damn."  

Anyway, the water was pretty choppy.  The scariest moment came on our way to the reef. 

Me.  "This water's rough."

Chris.  "Yes, everyone might be seeing what I had for lunch."

Me.  "Oh goodness, are you okay?"

Chris.  "I said 'might'"

Me.  "True."

Meanwhile, one of my gawkers from this morning was attempting not to puke in the back of the ship.  He was seriously about to spew and continued to look about as green as the water until we returned to shore 45 minutes later.  

Ahhh, karma.

Okay, so vomiting crisis averted.  On to the snorkeling.  Pretty cool stuff.  There were 3 jelly fish and yes, I totally squealed like a little girl and flippered my heart out to the other side of the boat.  Not interested in that.  The fish seemed completely domesticated.  They were swimming up to us like we might have food somewhere hidden in our swimsuits.  The reef was amazing.  The water was warm and I just swam around thinking how amazing are all of God's creations.  

Even the jellyfish.  

Although, I thought that only after I was safely back in the boat.

We enjoyed it so much, we're going back out tomorrow.  At 9:00 am.  I suspect the water won't be as warm.  Oh well.  I'll survive.  

Okay, so I know you've all been waiting so here's the updated count:

Unattractive topless women:  9

Attractive topless women:  Zippo

Seriously?  Why is that?