yeah we all have our "things"...

There's worse things than a toasty virtual husband...

TRUE DAT

Says the whitest girl on JSH...lol

Only cause she hasn't gone to Aruba yet to work on her tan

But also one of the most lovely!

(Don't make me narrow it down more! There's so many of ya'll gorgeous ladies on here!)

true.. next week going to start fake n bake

Tell me about it

Im like a kid in a candy store

Now if they would only invent teleporters like on Star Trek, I'd have a date in a different state every night

what if i unzip.!!!

Awww (((Jace))) (((Lee))) thank you..

oh you're just being mean now!!!

She's in Kalifornia! Aruba! Seriously. Did I ever tell you the story of a crewmate of mine throwing a ukulele into the water off the coast of Aruba?

ok I missed something, somehow...

I don't think so but maybe???

I'm in Cali, going to Aruba next month.. and um no you didn't..

Okay, he's now calling so I'll off

huh???

Okay, so we're on our 9 week whale shark research project. We had been tracking and recording data for a good portion of the day and had made it to about 100 nautical miles from Aruba, intending to stop in Oranjestad for a few days of relaxation off the vessel. We hadn't been on dry land in about 9 days, so it was starting to get to us.

Having worked for almost 9 hours straight (productively), everyone was tired, but feeling good. Preparations were made for landfall, menus suggested, ideas tossed about, items secured. The cruise in to Oranjestad would take another 4 hours or so. After everyone got done packing what they needed to, several of us were milling about on main deck B. (our so-called "rec-deck" for it's ability to host BS sessions in the middle of the night and what have you.)

It was there that Darren and I got our guitars out for the nice, leisurely cruise into Oranjestad. We sat around, laughing, singing, kinda just blowing off steam... well, Dave had a LOT of steam built up, apparently. He was grumbling while sitting there about his dislike for Aruba. We started good-naturedly kidding him, as we all were want to do, and he was taking it and taking it and taking it. Until Darren sang to him:

"Dave, Dave, don't be so sad
We're having fun, the weather's not bad.
If you don't like it, we can show you the way-a
We're not that far from Venezuela"

Well, Dave about had enough at this point (remember, 9 days at sea at this point) and reached down and grabbed Darren's ukulele (that he also had with him) and HEAVED it out into the south Caribbean Sea.

We all kinda gasped. Dave suddenly had a look on his face like, "Oh sh!t.". Darren had this PRICELESS look on his face of "I don't effin believe what I just saw.". Katie runs to the side and says, "I think I see it floating!" (It's made out of wood, Katie, nice job!) Darren looks at Dave, mouth still wide open... Dave says, "Sorry!" I said, "Thank Christ, that damn ukulele was driving me nuts!"

We ended up laughing about it and to this day when I talk to those guys, that story is ALWAYS retold... (=