Renissance Festival 2010

A couple of weekends ago, some friends from work and I went to the annual Renissance Festival. It was a lot of fun! We got our faces painted, watched a joust, ate turkey legs, and saw some rediculous people! It was awesome!

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Megs

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Out Of Africa

Last weekend, some friends from work & I took a trip to the Out of Africa Wildlife Preserve in Camp Verde. Although it was rainy and cold the WHOLE time, it was A LOT of fun!!! We got to see all of the animals up close! They would walk right up to the fence and let you take pictures of them.

Before we went to Out of Africa, we had all printed out pictures of animals and colored them. We then made it a point to take a picture, with our picture and designated animal! haha!

When we first arrived, there weren't very many people. Actually, we were one of the first groups to arrive. Which was nice because there were no lines for to pay or to ride the tram around. Because we were some of the first people to arrive, we were able to be the first group to take a safari tour.

The Safari Tour was so awesome! When we got onto the bus, they gave us a carrot to feed the Giraffe. The Giraffe came right up to the bus and suck its head in. Haha! I was so scared. I fed it my carrot and was freaking out! ha! My friend Matt put the carrot in his mouth and let the giraffe eat it out! Gross...but AWESOME! We also go to see zebras, antelope, a camel, and some goats. All in all it was a pretty cool experience.

After the tour, we walked around the park. We saw plenty of tigers, a rhino, lions, wolves, bears, and tons of other animals.

Before we left, we watched the Tiger Splash show. While at the show, Sharon & I got "marked" by a tiger! Yup...that's right...we are now owned by a tiger :( haha! The show was pretty neat. Mostly just watching huge tigers chase people holding objects and jumping into a heated pool. haha!

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Megs

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Extreme Weather...

So this whole week it has been raining on and off...but mostly on. Today has been the worst! There is even a tornado watch on the area of Arizona that I live in! Crazy!

Other than the weather, I have been doing well. I went to my follow up doctors appointment for my ankle today and everything is looking good. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about, I sprained my ankle so bad in Mexico that they were possibly going to need to do surgery to rebuild the ligiments on the outside because I had completely torn them off. I still have to wear my brace for the next few weeks but should be back in tip top shape within a month...fingers crossed!

Welp...that's all for now!

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Megs

Steph's Wedding

Well it is official, Stephanie is now a married woman! Her and Cody tied the knot on the baseball field January 8, 2010! I was able to go back to St. George for a couple of days to be there. It was a very unique idea for a wedding and very tastefully done. Following the Ceremony, there was a Luncheon held just outside the baseball field where they served pretzels w/ cheese, mini hot dogs, and mini hamburgers. After the Luncheon, they took a break to get some pictures before the sun went down and at 4:00 the Reception started. There was the usual cake cutting, garter toss, dancing, and random photo shoot by my friends and I...haha! Around 6:00 we sent them off to their honeymoon in Hawaii!!! Congrats Steph!

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Megs

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Christmas!!

This year for Christmas, I went to my parents house. Me and Marty made the journey up there Christmas Eve Morning. I got out to my parents just in time for dinner. My mom made chicken, veggies, and baked potatoes! It was delicious. We followed the usually tradition of opening one present on Christmas Eve. After the present opening, I decided to go to sleep since it had been a long day.

On Christmas, we woke up around 9 and opened presents. My dad was the one who got spoiled this year...I'm pretty sure he got everything on his list. I got a cook book and a couple of other things. I was really excited about the cook book since I like to cook! My mom got some delicious chocolates, a jacket and rice cooker/steamer thing.

That afternoon, we went down to St. George for our family Christmas Dinner. I got to see my newest cousin and we watched some old Christmas videos from when I was 14! Haha! They were pretty entertaining. After eating, we headed back to my parents house to watch my two nephews open their presents. They got A LOT of clothes and some cool toys.

All in all it was a good trip. I wish I could've stayed longer to visit more people but I couldn't take work off. Hopefully next year I will be able to. I was just glad to spend the time with my family.

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Megs

Ugly Sweater Work Party

For work, we had an ugly sweater party. Since I was unable to find any, me and Sharon decided we would make our own! Let me tell you...they were amazing!!!! Haha!

Felicia, Me, Matt, Sharon

Felicia, Me, Sharon

On another note, I am so ready to go home and see my family for Christmas. I wish I would be able to stay longer but I've pretty much used all of my paid time off haha!

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Megs

Happy Happy Birthday To ME!!!!!

So as most of you know, I decided to celebrate big for my 21st birthday! I was a BLAST! I would recommend that

everyone should go on a cruise at least once in their life. Anyways...here is a play by play of how my 2 week celebration went down.....

***WARNING: LONG LONG POST....SORRY***

My friend Bryttni flew down to hang out with me on my actual birthday. Since my b-day was on a Thursday, I didn't really do much. I had to work that day so I settled for going out to dinner with some friends. And if any of you know me, you know that I yet again went to Olive Garden for my b-day dinner. For some reason, I always end up there! Haha! The food was tasty as always! For my birthday, some of the people at my work bought me a special present....a REAL LIFE PIMP CUP!!!! I have wanted one for years and years but I never got one! I was literally running around the office showing EVERYONE how awesome this thing was! It seriously made my day! I also got flowers, cake, and cards :) I was loving it! On Friday, I was still in Phoenix but had taken the day off of work to just relax and finish my packing. I went and got a pedicure from this awesome lady. If any of you are in the area, you should totally check out Smudges Boutique to get glitter toes, jewel toes, minx nails or whatever! Lisa does a FAB job!! After my pedicure, I followed it up with a 80 minute massage and a 40 minute facial! I was so relaxed that I actually fell asleep during the massage!! I found this awesome place that was doing 80 minute massages for a 50 minute price, plus I got $10 off on the facial. Needless to say, I could NOT pass that up!!! After all of my pampering, I went home and finished my packing. I didn't take me too long since I had started packing about 2 weeks prior. Ha! I was so excited/nervous for the next day that I could hardly eat or sleep for that matter.

The next morning, I caught my flight to Vegas. Stephanie and I had decided to meet up in Vegas so she didn't have to drive all the way to LA by herself. She picked me up around 9am and then we started the long journey to California. We arrived in CA around 2ish which was perfect. That gave us 2 hours to make it onto the boat. Once we got on our boat (Norwegian Star), we found our room which was located on the 8th floor, close to the center of the boat. Shortly after getting on the boat, we had to attend a mandatory life saving drill. We pretty much learned how we would have to use the life boats in the event that the Cruise ship went down like the Titanic! After the drill, we made our way up to the pool deck for some good food and music. It was kind of chilly so we decided to go back to the room and see what events were going on. After looking over the agenda for that night, we decided a little retail therapy wouldn't hurt and headed down to one of the gift shops on the boat. While we were there, we met a few people. There were two older ladies from Texas that were really funny. We kept running into them over the next week and every time we saw them, we referred to them as our "Cruise Mom's". We also met Jeremy and Randy who we appointed our personal tour guides/body guards. Later that night, we went to an 80's dance party where we met a group of 4 guys that were all from Washington. At this point, we had pretty much met everyone our age on the boat! Ha! Seriously! After shaking our booties well into the night, we decided to go to sleep and made the journey back to our room.

The next day, we spent on the ship! We found some activities to keep us busy but we were ready to be in Mexico! We dressed up and went to dinner that night at a Tex Mex place on the ship. The food was alright but I think I was just to nervous to eat much since we were going to be in Cabo the next day!!!! After dinner, we went to the White Party where the had great music, snow, fog, and GLOW STICKS! We again worked off all of that food by grooving on the dance floor! haha!

The next morning when we arose, we could see the shoreline! I was SO ready to be off the boat and couldn't wait to see Mexico. To get off the boat, we had to take another little boat (also known as a tender) to the dock. Once on the dock, we navigated our way to the taxes with the help of our two tour guides. We then took a taxi to a beach about 15 minutes away from everyone else. I was so nice. There were little shade umbrellas and the water to amazing! While the guys went surfing...well they tried to go surfing but there weren't many waves, me and Steph did what we do best....laid on the beach! haha! Don't worry, I did wear sunscreen so I didn't get sunbruned. After about 2 hours, we decided to head back to where everyone else was. So we got back in our taxi and drove toward the dock. We decided to have the driver drop Randy and I off so that Steph and Jeremy could run back to the boat to grab more money and drop off the surf boards. While we were waiting for them to get back, we ordered some tacos and I met older couple. John and Francis (Franny) were really funny. They told us that they wanted to head to this place called Cabo Wabo before getting back on the boat so we decided to tag along. We told them that we needed to wait for Stephanie and Jeremy to get back before we could leave. A few minutes later, they showed up and we started to make our way down the streets of Mexico on foot. As we were walking, I felt this stinging sensation in my arm...when I looked down, there was this little black bug so I smashed it! Later on I would find out that this little bug had a big bite! It looked like I had some strange muscle on my arm! haha! On our way to Cabo Wabo, we met Diana! She is an awesome, free spirited girl!

The next day, we spent in Mazatlan! I really enjoyed Mazatlan the most. The vibe was just laid back and fun. When we first got there, Stephanie, Jeremy, Randy, Diana, and I all took these little buggie type taxis around. I seriously felt like I was on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disney Land! It was AWESOME! Once we arrived at the beach, we found a restaurant that had an awesome view and grabbed a few tables. We decided to rent a jet ski for an hour and let me tell you, I LOVED IT! I seriously was screaming and laughing the whole time I was riding it! I don't know how I EVER lived without riding one of those things! When we were coming back in, I thought I would do this cool back dive off of it...well it didn't work out so well. The water was about 2 ft. deep and I just ended up rolling my ankle pretty bad! It's still swollen! haha! It probably didn't help that 10 minutes later I was up dancing around on it! After a few hours of hanging out, we met up with this couple that Randy, Diana, and Jeremy had met earlier on it the trip. Tim and Sam are actually from Scottsdale (which is about 30 minutes away from where I live in AZ). We all decided to take a taxi together and we totally made the right decision. Our driver was so freaking awesome! He drove us all around so we could get awesome pictures. The guys were having a blast acting like monkeys while hanging out the back of a moving vehicle! haha! Once we got on the boat we made our way back to our rooms to get ready for dinner. We had all signed up to take part in a Murder Mystery dinner. I was pretty stoked about it. About half way through, Tim spilled the beans that he was in fact the murderer! We all laughed forever about that whole incident. Haha!

The next day we spent in Puerto Vallarta. The day started off kind of slow and we were all kind of grouchy. We ended up renting a car instead of trying to take taxis everywhere. It was actually a SMART idea! For $50 we got to see whatever we wanted to! We drove down to the beach to get some grub and then headed up into the jungle to find a waterfall. We had heard there was an awesome one and we did find it! There was a rope swing and waterfall slide! At first I was scared to try the rope swing but then I figured...What the heck I might as well! So I did it and screamed the whole way haha! After that, me and Steph made our way up to the waterfall slide. Again, I was scared to go down...but with a little push, I was on my way! It was awesome! The water was cold but it felt nice in the hot weather! After spending a good 4 hours up in the jungle, we decided to head back down. On our way down, we took alot of amazing pictures and had a great time laughing, screaming and joking around!

The next two days were spent at sea...and boy was I ready to get off that boat! There are only so many magic shows and movies you can watch without feeling bored! The first day wasn't too bad because we spent the whole day at the pool. The second day, however, was FREEZING! I was in sweats pretty much the whole day! On Saturday, we were back in LA and after getting off the boat and spending an hour in parking lot traffic, we were finally on our way to VEGAS!

Upon our arrival in Vegas, we met up with Stephanie's Fiance, Cody. Later that evening, Laura, Ian, Jessica, Dixon and T-bone all came down to hang out. We went to dinner at PF Chang's and I gambled for the first time. It was quite the experience! I won $0.03!!! Awesome! Laura won $25 on one machine so we decided to try her luck on another. She pulled the lever and won again. We started screaming and jumping up and down. Soon enough, there was a crowd of about 10 people around us asking how much she had won! When they found out it was only $18, they just shook their heads! We were pretty stoked about it haha! After dinner, everyone left back to UT and we made our way back to the hotel to sleep! I was so worn out from the whole trip that I just wanted to be home! The next day, we went to the Wax Museum in Las Vegas. I was kind of disappointed. The figures didn't look real at all! After a fun day, I got on a plane towards home! I was so so so so so happy to be home! Marty missed me bunches!

Anyways...that's pretty much most of my whole trip. Sorry if it was super long! haha. Until next time.

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Megs