After a year long of planning…I got to take my trip of a lifetime!!! I did a live-aboard dive vacation in the Galapagos Islands. Some of my friends from Hawaii and I went on the Peter Hughes Sky Dancer boat for a week of diving and land excursions. I had some amazing experiences…walked with huge tortoises, hung out with iquanas, snorkeled with sea lions and penguins, went diving with 5 species of sharks (white-tip reef sharks, silky sharks, Galapagos Sharks, Hammerheads, and a Whale Shark….and the best part of my trip are my wild dolphin encounters. The water temp there was 85 degrees so I went in my swimsuit and rash guard…it was awesome! I got photos of the juvenile female whale shark, I named her Isabella, and sent them to www.whaleshark.org for research! I was truly blessed to meet wild dolphins upclose and personal…Rosita the female with her baby Pepe and the male dolphin Edwin all let me be apart of their day! I have some amazing video of my adventures so stay tune for my video release…but until then enjoy my photos!
I enjoyed my 29th Birthday on vacation…and this really was the best bday present EVER!!! If you are a diver you MUST go on this trip!
My Dad came into town as well in 2010…he got a house down in Marathon which is above Key West. Matt and I went down to join in the fishing and diving activities that were planned…BUT no diving. The conditions were too windy, not to mention cold! But we did get to visit with my Eastern Ordway clan. Got to take them to Mallory Square at sunset to see all the street performers and grab some dinner. Next day we went out fishing and caught yellow tail snappers…Matt dared Garrett to eat the eye ball but he chickened-out. Mr. Ordway bent the anchor so back at the dock the heavy guys tried fixing it by standing on it…nice try fellas! Overall, it was a pretty funny trip…it was fun to hang out with goofy kids. Garrett started dipping cheetos into the ocean water with this toes and eating them!!! Crazy kid!
So it was a weekend of Ordway women!!!! Danielle and James came out to visit first…while in town James got certifed to dive, they went to the Bahamas on a cruise, and got to meet my Florida family the Steidleys. When the weekend hit Tina came to town and my cousin Lauren came up to go diving with all the Ordway women! It was awesome! While in Florida we went diving on the RSB-1 and we went to the Sawgrass Recrational Park for an airboat ride and soe gator wrestling. After Dani and James left I took my mom up too Disney World for Valentine’s Day…it was nice…Magic Kingdom at night and Epcot the next morning. My buddy Chad took us behind the scenes at the Living Seas Aquarium, and took us around the “world” well Epcot’s World. What fun it was to be a kid again!
