I’m having a blast. Staying at a five star called Hotel Nacional de Cuba Not internetting very much cause it’s so freaking slow and painful. Figure I’m better to save myself the trouble and drink pina colada’s in the sun. Best pina’s here EVER!
Old Havana is so neat. I took about 8,000 photos walking around. Saw a cool show last night with musica & dancing.
That’s all for now…back outside to the sunshine! Have a great day, I am 🙂
We were going to take a tour around Havana with our driver and check out the sights. It’s our natural city way to want to do stuff.
Instead, as we should we relaxed, stayed around the hotel and hung out. We walked throughout some residential streets looking at homes and cars. Honestly, coolest cars here, so many from the 40’s and 50’s I just had to ring Dad.
We found this little restaurant called Bom Appetit. It wasn’t the easiest to find but when we did it was in the back of someone house. It had a really neat wood fireplace and the pizza I had may have been the best one ever.
After, I had my first tanning session at the resport pool. The water was cold, the sun was hot and the mohito’s tasted like a dream. I love the sun! They were setting up a stage for a show the next night, Christmas eve.
I’m constantly amazed at the smoking indoors. It’s totally foreign to me after all the strict smoking laws in Canada. I’d like to get up early tomorrow and go for a walk in the sun.
I’m so excited to be here for Christmas. We’re thinking about traveling around to Santa Clara or Trinidad. Wooooooo hooooo!
There’s a Cuban hot shot on my plane sitting diagonally behind us in First Class. I’m not sure what exactly he does but judging by the dated yet very high tech HD camcorder and 21” Toshiba on his lap, I imagine its something to do with film or entertainment. He’s wearing Prada glasses and sitting beside a glamour lady with heaps of gold jewelery and makeup. She is clipping his cuticles in their seats while one of the attendants dotes on him.
They are first to get drinks up here. I have some type of Cuban orange pop that is $2 (even first class!). She feeds him a mixed drink with a straw while chomping on chips. A male flight attendant watches the camcorder with ear plugs and continuously laughs his head off. I’m working on interview questions for features on Techvibes and Ad Girl. They’re gonna come out just before Toronto Life’s February issue containing my photo. I know it’s going to be a good year, 2010, I can feel it in my bones.
I look over, the in-flight manicure continues. He was obnoxious and we tried to guess who he was. Before exiting the place in Havana I asked an attendant, turns out, he’s a famous Cuban comedian. How funny. Not.
I’ve got so many photos to upload but I don’t know the internet situation there. I prey for free wi-fi everywhere [fingers crossed]. The air is warm, the sun is setting, and I’m in Cuba for Christmas. OMG.
A bunch of peeps in DC organized a snowball fight in on the weekend via social media. These are the best videos I saw, there are heaps.
It was all fun and games until a cop in an unmarked hummer got pissed his car got hit with a snowball and pulled a GUN. Here he is admitting it:
In-fucking-sane. I doubt this would happen in Canada. Imagine? Gah. No way. Brutal.
Pickup 6am
Flight 8:30am
Change suitcases…
Airport 3pm
Flight 530pm
Cuba 9pm
Getting wasted at the beach…amazing.
Yesterday was the first snow storm of winter 2009 in NY. It was nasty out but we still had a great day touring around, eating, shopping.
I love love the bright lights and the massive amounts of people everywhere. It’s just like you see on tv, only bigger.
This guy was beautiful. There were heaps of people crowded around, skating, acting all merry. I was surprised at the size, for some reason I pictured it to be bigger. It was very snowy at this point in the night.
Lululemon in SoHo had this little hottie doing yoga in the window. It was nice to watch and totes drew a crowd. Nice work, more stores should put live shows in the windows.
Walked out our hotel and cruised down 5th Avenue through the crowds and slushy streets. There was a massive crowd and I didn’t know why…then I looked up and I was right in front of the Empire State building. Awesome.
Heading home tomorrow super early just in time to ship off to the sunshine! Sanasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Holy taxi cabs! I arrived last night at about 8. Took me just as long to fly here as it did to get through traffic to my hotel in Manhattan. I saw the Rockafeller Tree, it’s beauty! I’ve not done any exploring or hunting for style yet, that’s today.
There’s a nasty storm on the way and we’re a little worried we wont make it out tomorrow. Stating tucked inside the hotel, insulated concrete forms to keep us safe from the nasty that mother nature is about to bring on. We’ve got a Monday afternoon flight to Cuba that CAN NOT be missed. I’m not too worried, actually, not at all.
Ok, breakfast & shopping time. Have a great day!
Looking for bloggers in all kinds of categories.
If you blog or you know a cool blog TELL ME NOW! I’ve got some really exciting stuff coming up at work in the new year. I’m excited to have the opportunity to include people I know and cool bloggers. Hope to meet some new ones! Thanks in advance!
This is the desktop of @irieras at work…feel free to put me on yours too. haha so funny. It’s my current FB profile pic and she loves it.
I got to thinking the other day about this blog and me and everything…. it’s fun reminding yourself about your own life. It becomes a story, unreal at times. I often say to myself “Can you believe it Casie? THIS, this, this is your life and you are living it, good job. Casie you are living it out.”
AND Yes, yes I talk to myself often. Kinda why I have a blog, to make the talking to myself seen normal….or necessary. Oh, look at me so funny again. To remember my life, that’s why I do it, this whole charade. I’m so happy and I hope it lasts forever. Thank you for reading. I love when you comment cause then we’re both sharing and it’s not just me talking to myself day after day.
I’ve got all my gear here to scoot to NY after work. I’ve got a driver arranged at the airport and I’m meeting Jello at the hotel. No anxiety, only excitement! OMG! Have an awesome day.
Nothing makes me feel better when I’m freaking than a ring from Mum saying “everything is fine, don’t fret” and Mc Donalds.
I’ve got my writing hat on and I’m checking things off my list.
I am now extremely excited for tomorrow to come…ZOMG NYC! AAAAAAAAAAAAH.
This is me today…
I’m heading to New York tomorrow and excited. I’m also a bit nervous and having anxiety. I’ve never been to NY and i’m flying porter there all by myself then I have to take a taxi to our hotel. I know everything will be fine but I can’t help but feel the nerves kicking in. I’ve got two suitcases, one for NY and one packed for Cuba on Monday. I’m very lucky to be going but i’m feeling the pressure to get lots of stuff done for work and blog and pack and family/christmas stuff. Plus, Blackberry emails are not coming through and twitter replies are slow, adding to the anxiousness.
In other news, I’ve decided to sell the Bell Google Android phone. If you want it, tell me, I posted it here.
Take a deep breath…I’m so ready for the beach.
Social media is party of my life pretty much all day, everyday. Today I’m on the hunt for learning stuff I don’t know yet.
I watched this video about Google Wave today and it made me wanna test a wave for work. I think it’s probably pretty cool if you don’t have like 20 people like the waves’ i’ve been riding.
I think it deserves some attention from me considering how much I love you Google.
If you know something cool & interesting or where to find facts & stats, please share.
Then we can all be smarter. ♥
Thanks in advance.
I will update this post with before and after but you can see if you check my Tweets from today!
Is was not painful and took just over an hour. Don’t I look excited?
Here are my new shiny teeth! Thanks 🙂
Holidays are pretty much the busiest time of the year…for everyone. This week I’m running around like freaking MANIAC. It seems, so is everyone else I know/need to see/like/love/try to avoid.
Tonight is the finale for one of our shows at work, you might have heard of it, Peak Season? Anyhooters, I’ll be tweeting away for that tonight. Tomorrow I’m getting my teeth whitened thanks to Pure Med Spa. Hope it doesn’t hurt! Wednesday is the ever famous HoHoTO that I’m planning to make an appearance at. Thursday, is pretty much the last day before I leave to finish up all my work for blogMuch/MTV cause Friday is filled with holiday jazz. Thursday night I’ve got my sista coming by to pick up holiday prezzies for the whole fam-dam.
Ah…take a deep breath…all I really wanna do is this…..
