Finally Cruise Pictures!

Sorry, I have delayed so long on this post but things have been crazier than normal around here. I have been working 12+ hours a day, then our softball, Riley's baseball and soccer, my photography business picking up and then all the weddings, parties and all the other events that we have attended, I just haven't had the time to sit down and work on all these pics. I took all the memory cards from all the girls camera's and made one big folder with everyone pictures. Which was a GREAT idea, so we got so many pictures you never knew was ever taken. So I did that as soon as we got back but haven't had the time to sort them out and pick out my favorites to make a slideshow. So last week I hooked up Wi-fi at our shop, YAY! the only salon in Roane County with free Wi-Fi, look at how much we love our clients. Anyways, with me having internet access, I have been bringing in laptop and working on them between clients. So finally I have a slideshow.

We had a wonderful time. Most the girls from our salon, Mary,Kristin, Heather, myself, Brandi and April (owner of J Lynn's Salon) signed up for this cruise several months back. White Sands was having a hair show on the cruise, so we spent 6 days away from our family! (It was hard being away from my boys (yes all 3 of them :)) for so long but I did get a break, more than my one night a week Girls Night Out. Thanks Nana for helping Craig with the boys.

The take off from the Cincinnati airport was HORRIBLE, we got grounded on the runway for 2 hours because we had 70 mph winds. California was beautiful, we stayed in Long Beach the day before our cruise departed. The cruise was amazing! It was so fun, I want to go again now. The food was delicious. We ported and toured Catalina Island, Baja, and Ensenada Mexico. We learned several new hair cut technique from the White Sands instructors, which is a great hair product. Unique Connections and J Lynn's are the only salons in the area that sells it. I bought the new razor scissors, which I just LOVE! Then we toured LA in a black limousine. The driver was crazy, but we got to see all of downtown LA. We stayed our last night at Marina Del Ray, which was really nice. Our last night we went down to Santa Monica Pier and done some shopping. Funny story, 6 hairdressers can pile up in one cab! The cab driver thought we were crazy, well we are, but it was hilarious. Heather, Me, Brandi and Mary sat in the backseat with April laying across us and Kristin rode in the front seat. I tried to take a picture, but we were all laughing so hard this is what I got.
So we finally made it down to 3rd Avenue for more shopping. Thanks God we made friends with the cops on the Pier. We were hoping to see some famous people, but we did run into Lil Bow Wow at LAX. The flights home were very calm and relaxing, until we were loading our plane in Atlanta and looked over and seen our luggage sitting beside us. So we ask our flight attendant, and she told us that we were mistaken that out luggage was under the plane. Well guess what wasn't in Knoxville, our luggage. So Delta had our luggage delivered to us the next day, except for Brandi and hers didn't get delivered to her (in Atlanta, that is were she lives) until the middle of the next week. I was so happy to see my guys standing at the gate waiting on me. I am one of the luckiest woman in the world, my family means SO much to me, I am truly blessed!

Hope you enjoy all the pictures, I tried to eliminate a lot of them.