1 week down.....

So, the first week is over....and what a week it was. I completed and passed my 5-day master stewardess course and enjoyed it!! :) We learned basic seamanship, proper place setting, plated, Russian, and French service, basic floral upkeep, touched on bartending, and caviar, wine, and cheese service.

The above picture shows one of my place settings!

On Wednesday, St. Patrick's Day, I went to a Triton networking party with a housemate and one of the girls from my stewardess class, Kylie. I was supposed to meet the female captain there, but she was working late that day and had to miss it. After that, I went to an Irish pub which is known for being a yachtie pub. It was so crowded, and I was able to make several contacts. After that Kylie and I walked to the Village Well, and I met more people. I hitched a ride back to the crew house with an Aussie bloke on his scooter......there are a ton of scooters here!!

On Thursday after class, I went for a jog down to the docks with Kylie. I took my iphone and took some pictures of different yachts......for your viewing pleasure :)

In Ft. Lauderdale, they have all these water inlets with huge yachts berthed in front of HUGE HUGE even HUGER mansions. It's crazy sick!! There's so much money!! I tried to show this, but my iphone camera can only do so much.

This was take fron 17th St. Bridge.

On Friday, I went to my final stay of Stewardess school. After that, I caught a plane to Orlando and met up with Ben for a weekend full of Disney!! When I got to Orlando, we went to downtown Universal Studios....something like that.....and they have a Pat O's.... so of course we went there. It was great fun!!

On Saturday we went to Magic Kingdom and Epcot Center, and rode rides until 1:00 am. It was so exhausting, but so much fun!!!....except for fighting with the strollers. I think Ben may have lost a toenail because of those damn strollers!! Sorry to my friends with babies :) I finally got to do Space Mountain which I've waited a long time to have someone ride it with me.....like 15 years! Thanks Ben!! ;)

On Sunday, we did Hollywood Studios. It rained some, which caused some of the crowd to thin out. When it quit raining, Ben and I rode the same two rides over and over again. We rode Tower of Terror 4 times. The first two times, I latched onto Ben's arm - I'm such a baby. It drops you like 13 stories then bounces you back up then drops you again. After the second time, I was in love with and wanted to keep riding it!! They had another ride I really liked called Rockin Rollercoaster. It's an Aerosmith ride, so during the whole ride, they're playing Aerosmith songs in your ear! I think it was my favorite! I should have some pictures from the Disney trip eventually.....when Ben uploads them. I didn't take my camera....I didn't want to carry a purse. They have a separate line for bag checks and it gets really long. The key was to try and avoid long lines and strollers :)

Today, I started STCW BST. It's just a basic survival course. Tomorrow, we'll have lecture all day, which is what we had today, and then do some stuff at the pool tomorrow night. It should be very similar to what I've already done in offshore BST for M-I.

I sent my resume off for a private/charter job in the Bahamas, and they want to meet with me Friday at lunch. My first interview!! Yipee!! :-P