Scuba diving in the Red Sea

The 21st of July we were off to Aqaba. It’s a city South of Amman that’s vacation central! We drove down the desert highway to get to Aqaba, it was beautiful. We saw sand tornados every now and then.
We got to the Movenpick we were going to be staying at it was sweeeeeeeeet. Our room was soo sick. It was two floors with this white staircase and view of the beach/red sea. We all were having a field day! Everyone called their bed within 5 minutes of being there. Me and Kate called the top floor with the king size, it was so clutch. My room had a sliding door to a balcony. There are 6 guys and 6 girls on this trip so these even numbers work out well. The guys were staying in the hotel right next door, and we could climb over this cement block to get from our balcony to theirs. So we were all in and out of each others hotels and it felt like we had a house. We were joking around and kept saying how this vacation was going to turn out to be like an episode on the real world.
After moving in we went to a restaurant to go get some seafood mmmm. I got the restaurants special fish. It came out whole, with the head and tail on, It was looking at me as I ate the entirety of its deliciousness 
Then we were off to the beach. We swam around for a couple hours. The red sea is pretty salty, but not nearly as salty as the dead sea. We could see the coast of Israel clearly from where we were and the border of Egypt. We went to the pool and then played sand volleyball with these 3 teenage Jordanian kids. After that we all went back to the room and got ready to go out. We ate McDonalds for dinner haha and then headed to a small club. This club is one of the only party spots in Aqaba. It was kind of lame at first because they weren’t playing good music. I somehow started talking to the club owner, this guy that looked like he was in his early 40s, and we were chatting it up all night. I found out his entire life story. Apparently as the night progressed the music got better and the place got packed… but I don’t really remember much of any of that 
****(the following about the night has been told to me and reenacted by friends)***
From the club people took carriage rides home. I simply skipped along with some other friends and meowed the whole way back to the hotel. I slammed into a glass door in front of a security guard and pretended nothing happened, and then hung out with my Arabic instructor Saleh when I got back.
The next morning I wake up to Kate whining about some crap about being late to scuba diving, I turned over and told her to shutup.
As soon as she left, what she said registered. I jumped out of bed and couldn’t find anything. Apparently I was screaming “where are my essentials!” as I stormed through the hotel. I went down to Valerie’s room and was rummaging around for her contact solution. Took my contacts out, came back upstairs and put my contacts back in…..
I called my cell phone from someone else’s since mine was no where to be found. Lauren had my cell phone, she told me where she was and to hurry up because they were going to be leaving for scuba diving soon. I got changed and was out the door. I met them where they were eating breakfast. I poured myself a cup of coffee grabbed two cinnamon rolls and got in a van. After being in the van for about 5 minutes, I realized... I had taken a coffee cup from the hotel….
We got to the scuba diving station. We had to wait there for what seemed like an eternity just to get our gear. Then we were off to the red sea again. I went Scuba diving with the instructor and my friend Coop. We had to go in pairs so we volunteered to be the last pair. We sat around attempting to recover from the previous night. When the time came to scuba dive we put on our wet suits and oxygen tanks. The tank was about 30 pounds heavier than I expected it to be, and I almost teetered over multiple times. We didn’t do the typical type of scuba diving where you jump off a boat, we just walked into the water and started swimming. Getting used to breathing out of my mouth under water through an oxygen tank took some getting used to. The sound of the oxygen tank was really loud, especially when I focused on the bubbles rushing past my ear. I was panicking for about the first ten minutes and finally got myself to calm down. That’s when I truly started soaking in the beauty. The coral I was looking at was unlike anything I had ever seen before. I felt like I was on an episode of discovery channel planet earth. We saw schools of tiny fluorescent fish, I saw a lion fish (which are poisonous), there was like a kazillion different types of coral. The colors down there were absolutely gorgeous. Occasionally there would be a fish or two that were a little too big for my liking (like the size of a shoe) that would get close, but I would have to keep my cool. I touched some polypy material, which felt yummy and gelatinous. It’s times like these where I wish I had an underwater camera. The scuba session lasted for about 50 minutes. It was coolest thing ever. When we got outa the water my tank felt like it weighed a million pounds again, and it was weird not breathing outa the oxygen tank. Once we got outa our wet suits we went right back in the water to go snorkeling. That was pretty freaking awesome as well. Just 50 feet down was a huge old ship. It was sweet it was all rusted and had algae growing on it, there were fish swimming in and out of it. It was definitely left there on purpose because there some anchors and stuff on it, but it looked so cool. A couple people went down and touched it, but I was pretty sure I would swallow water so I chose not to. Anyways we left the scuba place in rush, and we all felt fully recovered . As soon as we got back to the hotel we got back on our bus and headed back to Amman. The drive back was pretty beautiful. The Dead Sea was on our left side for a good half an hour and the sun was setting along the way. Like most of our other trips had ended, we were all beat and ready for a shower.