Gone Fishin'

Tuesday I had off from work so I went out on a fishing boat with one of my friends. Deep Sea fishing that is.. for Blue Marlin (its a big hit down here). We didn't really catch anything and the water was super rough, but it was still awesome.

Nick (our captain) catching live bait

A really cool looking house where we were catching the bait.

Clint, a passanger, pretending thats the fish he caught... gotta love those southerners

Other fishing boats trying to take our fish.

Andrew keeping his eye on the lines

Nick controling the boat from the top part (I have no idea what any of this boating talk actually is)

so pretty!

My attempt to take a picture of the flying fish, but I can't figure out where they are in the picture. Those little guys were probably my favorite part. They really do fly over the waves.

Andrew and Clint reeling in a fish!

Baracuda! (no big deal to those guys... but I was pretty pumped). Right after they let this guy go, Clint hooked a blue marlin. I got to see it jumping out of the water once it was hooked but we didn't pull it in fast enough. Huge beautiful fish though.

Rainbow.

Giving up on catching the big fish and going for the money fish (Tuna, so they can sell them to restuarants). You have to use the live bait to attract them. But first they were take a bunch of the little fish and smash them against the side of the boat so that it would either kill them and they would bleed or they would be injured and "cry" so that either way the other fish in the ocean would notice them.

After catching a white fin tuna (I really have no idea if that was what it was or not) Andrew unhooked it, took a needle pushed it through its head through the eyes, tied a fishing line around that part and hooked it up to a reel to use as bait. I just stood there in total shock and so grossed out. But the poor fish didn't even come in use bc we still had no bites.

HUGE bird.

There's the poor tuna after we realized he wasn't going to help us, they let him free.

Rain is coming.

Some ugly fish that were around our boat when we docked. We gave them the left over live bait.

Just for a little random story....

Jac and I were sitting in our room watching a movie before work one morning. In our usual attire- tshirt and underware- when I happened to look out the window in time to see a man climbing that palm tree outside out room. He climbed all the way up it and sat at the top kicking coconuts out of it, then climbed back down, collect his winnings and went on his way. I guess thats a normal habit around here.... not something i'll see at home I'm sure.

Ladies Night!

One of the bars in Red Hook (where me and Jac work) has a special on Wednesday nights where ladies drink for free.


Its very rare for us to miss this night bc..
a) we're cheap
b) we love the bartenders
c) bc its a 100 yards from work.


Last wednesday I had to meet Jaclyn there after I was done work.. she had the day off (lucky girl). As always it was a very fun time.

looking good..

i got my drinks!

Jac has her's

Rich! we love him

Me and Patrick (owns an awesome sushi restaurant) and is our personal taxi if needed

yay for ladies night!

NO MORE WORK... please!

work is consuming my life! but i'm still in paradise! worked Tuesday-Friday 3-10, Saturday 3-12, Sunday 9am-11pm!!!! dead tired today.

On my days off last week, I did some laundry and met a kid working in one of the other restaurants in Red Hook and started talking to him. Cody lives on St. John and said that he was meeting up with other people from work on Tuesday to hang out on one of the beaches. So the next day me and Jac actually woke up before 11 and took the ferry over to St John to meet up with the kids. Turned out to be an awesome day!

First a few pictures to make you all jealous..

Me and Jaclyn

Me trying to tell Jac to stop with the creeper pictures

Cody- my laundry mat friend!

Me and Jac making friends

The crazy roads and hills on St. John

Jaclyns BACK!

WAHOOOOO I missed my jaclyn and she has finally returned to me. There's not many people I could be stuck in one room with, but I have yet to get sick of her. She started working at a sushi place on Monday and really likes it. Unlike my job, most of the people she works with are 30 or younger and white. She's keeping it classy while I working outside and smell like a "french hooker" according to Pat.

Here's what happens when we're left alone together...

dance party on the beds

How cute are we?!

Duffy's for ladies night.. ladies drink for free (bartenders- Rich, Brandon, PJ- love us)

Fat Turtle after work.. thats what I look like hell.

Jac and Pat

Jac and Orion
Pat forgets he's on an island and thinks he's still in Mississippi with his "shit kickers"

So pretty.

Right before Jac and Orion decided to steal the golf cart and then get chases down by security.

i'm still alive

sorry i haven't updated.. for some reason it refuses to let me on the sites. it just keeps going to about.com saying that these pages don't exist. and when i get to a page my computer freezes.

So what have i been up to? WORKING! ugh.. stupid work. still love it there but I work 5 days a week 2:30 or 3 to 10 or 12. LONG LONG LONG days. Thanks to Rob, and thanks to me being white, I am loved there. I could get away with murder. And I love it.

Last week on my day off I went out on a boat with parasailors with Katrina and went to a few islands. Pretty fun. Here's some pictures.

Everyone but me went "surfing"... I don't like open water.

Boomer (yes.. thats what his name is, and I have no idea why..)

Boomer and Jothem

Jothem

Me brushing my hair after my only time in the water when I attempted to pee.. but I couldn't go bc everyone was watching

Katrina showing the guys how to really do it

Ty actually doing the real thing.. he was the only one who could do it.

Me and Kat

Chris driving, Ty and Jothem (don't ask Ty about his tatoos bc the response I got when I asked was "I'm sorry did I get them for you?" which I responded "well if your gonna get something permentaly put on ur body, expect people to question it"

Me and Jothem trying to get the money from between the glass

Home safe.