Cruise Update:

first off i dont think ineed to say where i (still) am. so. the biggest thing is we have a couple detainees onboard. as the story goes, one of the ships who is accompaning us, the USS Gonzales, had their VBSS team out in a boat in the water doing some boat operations and training. from what i heard, a small boat came towards the team at a high speed, and started opening gun fire at the them. the team acted immedietly, returned fire, disabled the craft, boarded it, and arrested two guys that were onboard. not sure what ethnicy they are, but one can guess. anyway, the ship didnt have a brig to put them in, but we did. so they asked if we could hold them, and we agreed. so now there are two convicts onboard; they converted one of the officers staterooms to a "jail cell", and thats where they are now. its very well gaurded with locked and loaded weapons, they got sheets covering the hallways as not to spark curiosity and such. its a little uneasy, but pretty cool we actually caught someone. not sure who we are going to hand them off too though.

anyway, other than that, the Middle East Crisis is still pretty bad. the other day a bunch of protesters in Bierut stormed the UN Embassy. they were breaking windows, climbed the fences, burned UN and American flags and were yelling and ranting. it was crazy.
today Israel launched a massive ground assault on the town of Baalbeck, which is known have many Hezbollah fighters; they use it for their training and re-supplying and stockhousing of weapons. i havent heard how that turned out, but last i saw it was getting very fierce. Israel is still launching massive airstrikes, and Hezbollah is still launching rocket after rocket into the heartland of Israel.

back in the states its getting crazy too. lets see, the weather has been hitting the triple digits all over the country. power grids are getting overloaded, people dieing from heat strokes; panic in some places too. what else...Mel Gibson is charged with DUI...not a big deal for a star....but hes getting blown up for making anti-semedic remarks while being arrested. so thats a big story, it looks like his career and his reputation might not be a good one from here on out. he has apologized and is going to rehab.
more to follow im sure.
Lindsay Lohan is in the light too, for "partying too much and neglecting her work" as James G. Robinson, CEO of Morgan Creek Productions said last week. Lohan is currently filming a movie, and Robinson said in a letter she has been frequently late for filming and has been "discourteous, irresponsible and unprofessional." he went on saying "If Lohan does not honor her commitments, the studio will pursue "full monetary damages.""
more to follow im sure.

thats about all i got to say. theres always someone or something going on in the world of today that seems to catch us all off gaurd.

well back to criusing around in the Med...