Tan and Happy

Question: How many rolls of toilet paper are needed for 8 crew on a two week cruise? Answer: about 30.

Question: How many gallons of water does the above mentioned crew drink in two weeks? Answer: 51 gallons.

Question: How much rum does said crew consume? Answer: Not as much as they wanted to. We had to put the kabash on Matt and Matt's rum drinking after 4 bottles, most of which was consumed over the course of two nights (just wait until you see the pole dancing pictures!).

We arrived back this morning at 2am from our Bahamas trip. In the past 24 hours we survived the cancellation of our flight at DFW, hitching a ride home from Dallas to Austin with a stranger (a nice one, luckily) and still no sign of our luggage. Despite all this, we're feeling very relaxed and happy. As for the title of this blog, I am tan and Matt is more freckled. The good news is he didn't have any sunburn.

Our trip was great, although very gluttonous and lazy. We mostly slept, ate, read, ate some more, sailed for a little while, ate again, laid around in the sun, had a snack, then dinner and then slept again. My kind of trip. The post-cruise, can't fit in my pants weight loss program officially went into affect today. The weather was mostly sunny (so us girls were happy) with some good wind for sailing (so the guys were happy). The water in the Bahamas is the most amazing blue color - it's wonderful to look at. We visited several outstanding beaches with powdery white sand.

It's all sort of a blur, but I seem to remember some snorkeling, kayaking, limited swimming (the water was pretty cold), sand castle building, sunning, reading and other such activities. There were a lot of Oreos and Tostitos consumed on this trip. And not to be outdone by my brother and husband, I polished off a bottle of Cuervo 1800 myself (my attempt at Mexitinis a la Bahamas). The night the majority of it was drunk the pole dancing occurred (not by me, mind you) but I do vaguely recall doing a dance show to "Ice Ice Baby" and lip synching to "Sweet Child O'Mine." Hey, if you can't be a fool in front of your family who can you be a fool in front of?

I think the pictures pretty much speak for themselves so that's about all I'll write for now. We are home for 2 1/2 weeks and are feverishly trying to book hotels for the next three months, get our visas and figure out where we're going and what we're doing. Oh yeah, and I desperately need to get my bags into production so I have a job when we get back!