Day One-Fifteen - Hot and Sweaty!

Yea!  The Olympic Opening Ceremonies are tonight.  I am so looking forward to it.  If for nothing else just because we will get hourly updates on where Will and Kate are and what Kate is wearing.  I am going over to a friends house to watch the opening ceremonies which will be a welcome relief since I am quickly losing hope of having air conditioning by then.  Maybe I should post photos of what I am wearing while I am without air conditioning.  On second thought maybe I shouldn't.

How do some celebrities look so good when they are hot and sweaty and I look the way I do.  Okay, I get that they start out pretty amazing so they can only go down so far simply because they are hot.  But I think some of them look even better when they are hot and sweaty.  What's up with that?  When I am hot the first thing that happens is I stop wearing make up since it would all just sweat back off anyway.  The world is not ready for me without make up.  My hair starts to frizz to the point that I look like the fat frizzy haired guy from Lost....

So, what do you think?  How do I look?  Heh heh....  Looks like I could use a shave... giggle, I'm cracking myself up.  But it is good to keep a sense of humor when you are hot and sweaty.  See, he is smiling, in fact he is laughing and he is hot and sweaty.  Of course, I am sure this picture was taken in Hawaii.  It is hard to be in a bad mood when you are in Hawaii.  I remember a number of occasions while I was there that I was hot and sweaty and not a single time did I want to hurt someone else.  However, I can feel the same way here in Dallas in my home and suddenly I start to imagine all of the horrible things I would like to do to the next guy that answers the phone at the home warranty company.  Is that wrong?  I think not.  It's not like I follow through.

I don't know if it is always the case since I have only been to Hawaii once, but while we were there we did this snorkel probably half a mile off shore in 60-100 feet of water and the water was pretty cold.  The water is never cold in the Caribbean so that caught me off guard.  At the time, I remember thinking that it wasn't that pleasant.  I kept thinking that I was going to end up with an ear infection.  Right now, I would pay big money to be in that water.  I'd pay even bigger money to be snorkeling in the Caribbean right now though.

I think my favorite thing is going on a Caribbean cruise in the winter time.  When I go on a cruise, I almost always go in the fall or winter.  That is the ideal time to do it.  Obviously, it is not hurricane season then, but also, most kids are in school so there are a lot fewer kids on the ship.  All of the kids on board are either home schooled Americans or kids from other countries.  European kids are pretty good.  They are usually quiet.  Australian kids are pretty much just like American kids.  But there aren't all that many Australian's on Caribbean cruise ships anyway.  It seems like the mix is usually more American and European than anything else.  But I think the best thing about going on a cruise in the winter especially if you leave out of Galveston is that when you leave it is cool, like in the 50's or 60's.  It gets dark early and you go to dinner and a show then maybe you hit the casino or something that first night.  When you head to your stateroom that night, it's pretty chilly.  Then you wake up the next morning and open the balcony door and it is 82 degrees and sunny outside.

The change isn't as dramatic if you leave from Miami or Ft Lauderdale.  When you leave from there in the winter the weather is already nice.  So, the next morning it is almost like you haven't left the port yet except that you can't see land when you walk out of the balcony door.  Last time I went on a cruise out of Galveston was a few years ago in February.  The ship got fogged in at the port.  First of all they were very late coming in because it was too foggy for the ships to come in that morning.  Then when they finally got in and let everyone off the ship and let us on it was like 2 a.m. before we finally got to leave port because the fog had gotten so bad again.  I have heard that this has happened several times on February cruises out of Galveston.  We were really worried because if we hadn't gotten out until the following day we might have had to skip one of our ports.  But leaving by 2 a.m. still meant that we could make up the time.  Even after leaving port 9 hours late, it was still in the 80's and sunny the next morning when I opened the balcony door. I love that!

Our cruise in January leaves out of Galveston.  I hope the weather here is really cold when we leave.  That will make the hot, humid weather in Jamaica seem that much better.  Once we were in Grand Cayman and it was decorated for Christmas.  I loved that trip.  It was so cool to see palm trees with Christmas lights and wreaths everywhere when it was 90 degrees outside.  I got a picture of the Turtle Farm all decorated.  It is a personal favorite.

Woohoo!!!!  While I typed this, I finally reached the perfect time of day for a person with no air conditioning.  This is the perfect moment when it is exactly the same temperature inside the house as it is outside!  It really sucks when you keep looking at the thermometer and it is hotter indoors than it is outdoors.

I think that means it is time for me to shut down so that I can get a few things done before the temperature goes above 90.  Have a good weekend!