The worst part about living in Florida, the hurricanes! I have been home for about a week now, but due to Charley sweeping through here, we had no electricity for 5 days and the phone line was out for a whole week. So, this is the first chance I have hide to write anything. But, I do consider myself lucky. We were quite fortunate not to have any major damage. We did lose some trees, but no damage was done to the house. The worst part of the whole experience wasn't even the hurricane, it was having no air conditioning in August. You ever tried to sleep in Florida without AC? I do not reccomend it. But the showers were so cold they could have waked the dead.
Anyway, now that electricity is back on for most of the state, stores are open again and I was finally able to take my ibook into the apple store to be fixed. Hope fully I will have it back in a week or so (thank god for extended warrenties!) I just hope that I don't lose anything off the hard drive when they fix it. I can't exactly replace all my south americ pictures (I'm not likely to be in Ecuador again any time soon). Also, while my imac is cute (purple) it is old and slow. I can't even listen to a cd while playing a game or it works in slow motion.
Oh well. To all of you in Florida, email me please and let me know if you survived Charley's wrath. For everyone else, damn you lucky folks. Anyway, I need to find a job and an apartment now for me and Nate, so wish me luck!

Long Island, NY...Well, I know I haven't updated this blog in a while (as Amy keeps reminding me), but I was stuck in Guayaquil Ecuador without any internet access. And now I am at my grandparents house where to go online I have to tie up there phone line. So I have to make this quick. Just wanted to say that I am back in the USA, home of Starbuck's and cell phones (both of which I have been addicted to since the moment I got back). Our South America tour is finally over. It was alot of work, but alot of fun. And I even learned some spanish. Thanks to all my translators (Romeo, Cris, etc.) for all your help. And now I am done with Disney on Ice. No more twelve hour load-outs with no meals or overtime. No more travel day as my only day off. And no more skater bulls**t. But now I am unemployed. But in two weeks I will be back in Florida and I will find something. Nate and I are moving to Orlando, we will see everyone once we get there (we are driving down next week). Sunday I have to go to Nate's cousins wedding, which means I will be meeting most of his family, I don't remember the last time I was this nervous to meet someone. Especially since all they know about me is that I am the girl who got Nate to move across the country from everyone he knows. Oh well. Anyway, Nate, if you are reading this, I miss you. To everyone else, don't complain about the heat in the states, cuz trust me, nothing compares to El Salvadore in July. Have a good summer. I will see you all around and I will try to write later in the week (I am supposed to see Farenheit 911 with my Grandmother tomorrow). Bye.

Quito, Ecuador...this weekend is going to suck. Three shows today, three shows tomorrow, then a ten hour load-out. And ten hours is being optimistic. Our load-outs in Guatemala and El Salvadore were each at least twelve hours. Yuck. I will be spending all day Monday sleeping. Recuperating. Then tuesday is our last day here, we leave Wednesday for our next city (also here in Ecuador). The shows have been selling out here, the building is packed every day. The security is really funny though. People keep trying to sell illegal copies of the Disney films our show is based on. Yesterday I got to see security chase down a man with "Lilo y Stitch" DVDs. They were jumping over seats and climbing over audience members. It was pretty funny. In the next city are evaluations. But, since it is also my last week with the company, I am not too concerned. After that, I am done and don't have to listen to Disney music anymore. (And yes, the Disney music is EVEN MORE ANNOYING in spanish!)

Quito, Ecuador...well, last night was opening night. We were sold out. They have been promoting this show like crazy down here. We have 13 shows this week and they are all going to be packed. Then we have a week off before we open in Guayaquil. I should be going home on the 29th or 30th of this month. (anybody want to volunteer to pick me up at the orlando airport?). We went to the Ecuator a few days ago. It was interesting. A big line was on the ground, but it turns out when they painted it, they put it in the wrong place. So it wasn't until GPS came out that they realized that the ecuator is actually a little walk away. On the real ecuator though, you can balance an egg on a nail, and you way a little less. (Too bad the skaters can't hold their weigh-ins there). Any way, when we are in Guayaquil we are supposed to have a big party, cuase we are the first show to play Ecuador, which is the 50th country Disney on Ice has played. So that is pretty cool. I haven't been able to put up the surfing pictures, cause I don't have good internet access at this hotel (but they have a great fondue restaurant which makes up for it). Hopefully next week the hotel will have better internet. Nate and I bought a chess board for our house, one side is Conquistadors, and the other side is Indians. I don't know how to play chess, but I figure at least it looks cool. I also have souveniers for everyone back home, so expect a visit from me when I get back to the states.

Just got back from surfing. A bunch of us spent the last week in Montanita, Ecuador at Casa del Sol taking surfing lessons. Also got to go whale watching and hiking and all sorts of other fun stuff. Although, I didn't learn to surf so much as fall, but I am so unathletic. Everyone else did really good though. We did have one person get stung by a sting ray, but after a few days he was fine. I took lots of pictures, but this hotel in Quito sucks and I can't put them up yet. Anyway, I need to go to the grocery store (I hate grocery shopping here since I don't know enough spanish) Oh well. Later.

Well, we are finally in Quito, Ecuador...we got stuck in ElSalvadore for an extra week. But they did move us to an different hotel. It was on the beach and and we stayed in these little villas. Plus, you could rent golf carts. But they probably expected us to drive around on the golf course, not go off roading and mudding. We killed the golf carts, but it was fun. They will probably never rent to "gringos" again. Anyway, we are now in Quito. We have full kitchens and laundry in our rooms, so that is cool. And sunday we leave for a week of surfing lessons and salsa lessons, whale watching, and all sorts of touristy stuff. Anyway, there is a huge line behind me to use the computer, but I will write more when I can.

Pictures are up from Guatemala! Just click Here or the link at the top of this page that says Central America Tour.