Cancun- July 14th

Today Pearl and I went water skiing in the morning again, but my turn went terribly. My water skis were too big and the guy was driving too slow, so I continued to fall. He didn't help me, he just kept screaming at me. After falling 4 times, he said, " this is your last chance." I got up and I was doing fine until he got even slower and I fell back into the water. My water skiis flew off and one smacked me on the left cheek bone. He kept yelling and said, "calm down, let's go again," but I was sobbing and inhaling water trying to say, "I want to go back." I got in his boat, and when I arrived back at the hut, I was in so much pain. Pearl and Debbie walked me back to the room to see my mom afterward. I iced my face and changed into a new bathing suit because we were planning on going on the trapeze with car wash, but today was special because they had a parade and the trapeze was closed.

Following the parade, we did water aerobics and a gladiator fight in the pool. We went to lunch with a girl named Amanda (16), then we went water skiing with her afterward, followed by kayaking. 

After kayaking, we changed into dry clothes, then we walked to the trapeze. When we arrived, we got in line before these boys from England. I was sitting two girls away from a guy named Nick, and we struggled to talk over the girls, so we ended up standing up so we could talk to each other. I met one of nick's triplet brothers named Sam. I talked to them the whole time, and loved their company because they were so funny. I told them I go to an all girls catholic high school, and Sam said, "so like a nunnery?" When he said that, their friend Tyler thought he was serious that I actually wanted to be a nun and he called me Sr. Grace. When I went up to do the knee hang catch, they kept shouting, "Go Sr. Grace!" :p Pearl did really well on all of her catches, and I was thoroughly impressed by Nick and Sam's catches. The boys had been doing trapeze since they arrived, so they developed rips on their hands, which are open blisters. After Nick's go, I high fived him, but he grimaced because I hit the blister on his hand. That was the beginning of our secret handshake :)

After all the catches, we walked back with them and Pearl. Pearl and I went to the beach to have a girl talk, then we returned to our rooms afterward to get ready for dinner. 

The show tonight was by the pool and we were planning to sit with the guys, but our families wanted us. The show was really enjoyable and it was especially fun to watch the trapeze GOs doing the tricks. Afterward we watched a fireworks show with the guys, then walked to the ping pong tables. 

Watch part of the show here:

I played all the guys and beat everyone. :p Nick challenged me, and beat me the second time around, but I did well the first round. After that, we walked around and went into the night club. The singer asked for a volunteer and Nick dared me to go up and sing, so I did. It was the song "Jump", so it was really fun.

When we got sick of the club, we walked outside and sat on the beach together. We sat there for an hour talking, then the guys walked us back home. I mostly talked to Nick and Sam on the way home.