It’s Holly

Holly’s officially addicted to Flickr, thanks to Mikee.
Sooo, get at me on Flickr, son. It’s where all the cool kids are.

I just wanted to mark this special occasion in history. I watched the swearing in of Barack Hussein Obama this morning at the North Park Theater with people who I didn’t know, who embraced me as family when they saw I was there by myself. We laughed together (esp. when Rick Warren said ’sssssasha!’), [...]

I’ve been nasty sick the past two weeks (a little bit better now) – since the cruise has been over. I was telling Tina my reasoning:

Holly: i think my body is used to that cruise food
Holly: maybe i should go eat at Applebees or TGIFridays to make myself feel better
Tina: lol, did Jonathan get [...]

It was Thanksgiving / Haejin’s 18th birthday party where I was shown the original picture:

That was the inspiration for the recreation:

How time flies.

Dear White People on Cruises,
Please don’t feel the need to get your hair braided when you’re in Jamaica. You look like Hurricane Chris.

Thanks,
Holly

Note: I wrote these blogs while on the ship, and I’m publishing them post-vacation.

December 30th: It’s “Haiti” because we weren’t really in Haiti, we were in a fenced-off, <1 mile stretch of Haiti called Labadee, owned and operated by none other than Royal Caribbean. This explains why we didn’t need passports, even though we thought [...]

Note: I wrote these blogs while on the ship, and I’m publishing them post-vacation.
December 29th:First of all, sleep on this ship is amazing. We left the balcony door open and fell asleep to the sounds of waves crashing. It’s kind of amazing. Not to mention the rocking. I felt like a baby being rocked to [...]

Note: I wrote these blogs while on the ship, and I’m publishing them post-vacation.
December 28: It was a long day today. Delayed flights and no sleep leads to Cranky McCranksters, but alas we made it to the ship.

We did the mustard muster drill,had some cocktails, a nice dinner (think Mimi’s Cafe with Indian (note: [...]

i’m completely exhausted. fortunately, i did some minor blogging while i was on the trip and saved some drafts, so i’ll be able to update tomorrow and throughout the rest of the week. in the mean time, here’s a little preview of the most fantastically fierce cruise ever:

more to come this week… kinda almost [...]