Cruise Day 2: Key West

We spent our second day docked at Key West, Florida. Unfortunately, all we really got to see was the touristy stuff, complete with a store where everything was $5. However, there was this cool house (above) with a peace sign over their window.


Sloppy Joe's Bar: Apparently it was Ernest Hemingway's favorite bar, and was frequented by Habana Joe.


Since I didn't get to go to the northernmost point in the US while in Alaska, I decided to go to the southernmost place in the US. Here are my feet there.



Key West lighthouse (out of commission):


That square building was Ernest Hemingway's house, as seen from the Key West lighthouse.
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." -Ernest Hemingway


Goodbye Key West!

(I got a camera that takes really easy panoramics, hence the addition of panoramics to this page :D)

Cruise Day 1

I just got back from my first cruise!!!
Day One: We flew from KC to Texas to Florida and boarded the ship. I left home around 4am, so i figured it was in my best interest to not sleep at all. :D
I went on the cruise with my sister, that's us on the plane.

My first time in Florida!



Our teeny tiny room...




Goodbye Ft. Lauderdale!


Our ship, the Carnival Freedom:

I wish i had some really cool news like i havent been updating because i decided to move to europe, but alas, life got in the way. I've been living in kc (hence the jazz club up there- awesome!), and managed to get a job at a movie theatre. i ABSOLUTELY love it. its a little ridiculous.

Other than that, not a lot has been going on. i'm leaving for a cruise in a few days, so lotsa pictures will be coming from that. in the mean time, here are some pics from the past few months.


The fastest pumpkin i've ever carved, less than 10 min:



Me and one of my lovers, at another one of my lovers wedding.

Every year, in Bonner Springs, KS is the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. I haven't been in 10 years (wow, i just counted that up, i feel old), so some friends from Maryville and I decided to go.
Queen & King
The Duel!

Jess & me, photography lovers.

A few weeks ago, a friend & I drove to Springfield, MO to see another pair of friends. Outside of springfield is a place called animal paradise. It's $15 per person, and more than worth it. You drive through, with animal food, and the animals come right up to you! They'd even try to join us in our car...
A camel & Us


My all time favorite animal: A Zebra!!! and her adorable offspring.



A mix of a zebra & a donkey (called a zedonk)




Easily the meanest animal there, it even bit me!





Love it.




And of course, what's a trip to springfield without a visit to Lamberts, home of the throwed rolls!

My entertainment as of late: Bloody Marys and True Blood/Dexter.

Thanks to my new-found ability to hook my computer(s) up to my tv. With a Mac and an old tv, its a lot harder than it sounds. i had to buy 3 separate cords, and that didnt even include the audio portion.

i'm still in the not-so-desirable state of missouri. I'm trying to get on clinical studies to make some dough and hopefully travel east.
i'm extremely happy i have my books to help me escape the monotony life of suburbia i've found myself in. yesterday i finished one of the best books i've ever read, and i thought i'd put a quote from it on here...
"If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thoughts brought us to a halt."
Jose Saramago, from Blindness

til the next update...