Yo Mon, Jamaican ME CRAZY!!!

BURSTING WITH EXCITEMENT TODAY!!!! Our local radio station KWRT, plays a syndicated national show from about 11am on. Currently, they are qualifying listeners to go on a CRUISE called Classic Country Cruise!
Visit http://www.opry.com/OpryCruise/PortsOfCall.aspx

I am excited for several reasons. I was able to get through the phone lines and get qualified! I had the right answer to the dj's question. The cruise includes airfare as well as one whole week cruising. One of the Ports of Call is where Greg and I went on our honeymoon, Ocho Rios Jamaica. OH MY GOSH would I be so excited if I won. We will be married 15 years this year and what an awesome thing that would be. The trip is in February 8-14 so perfect for Valentines too,(he could cover two romantic dates in one) and we've never been on a cruise before. Don't have a clue what we'd do with the kiddo's, but believe me you, if we win this thing, we're goin! They are going to take more names for another week or so and then they'll have a drawing. Please oh please, if you're the praying person out there reading this, please pray that I win. If you don't pray, could ya just send good vibes my way?

Ok, now that I got that out of the way...Here's Ethan's excitement for the week hopefully. He has been attending and YMCA Youth Fitness class and it isn't too structured or organized, go figure. Anyhoo, Monday afternoon, the instructor took the 4 kids to the creek on the grounds of the Y and let them play around it. Notice I said around. Well, at one point, Ethan jumped across to the other side and got his shoes muddy. He said he knew I'd be mad, so he went to wash them off in the creek water. In the meantime, one of the 5th grade boys, jumped in the sandy/muddy area and sunk up close to his waist. (He got stuck) The instructor thought it was hillarious as did a couple other kids. Ethan went over to this kid and started digging him out of the mud. He had on fairly new clothes and he was trying hard not to get them covered in mud. Apparently, the stuck 5th grader thought it would be oh so funny to get Ethan with mud. He picked up two big handfuls and slopped Ethan with it, all the while Ethan's trying to get him out. (We've had boat loads of rain with Gustav and Ike) He road his bike on home and took off his clothes so he could soak them. I immediately threw the shorts in the washer and soaked his WHITE t-shirt overnight in Oxy Clean. I had to scrub some places pretty hard, but after washing it's wearable. Needless to say, he is not going back to the class. But we were proud of him for stepping in to get the 5th grader out when it should have been on the shoulders of the instructor. Makes you feel good when your teenager does something responsible like that and especially when the adult present didn't know what to do.

Gotta run, it's really late and dieting doesn't work so well if you don't get enough sleep. And I don't want to get run down, you never want to stay on your diet when that happens.

Till next time,
Lana