So. Fun.
About two months ago I finally got into the "swing" of life away from family, but man, after having them over I feel like I now have to start again from scratch! Yesterday when it was just me and Jared we were like, "Wow. This is boring and quiet. Do we need to have babies right now?" (The answer is no, we do not, but that would definitely solve the too-much-quiet problem.)
In the past eight days, I have seen more of this island than I saw in the seven months before then. It has been exhausting and awesome. Here are a few highlights from our week:
+ Saturday: Jared giving the boat driver a thumbs up while we were tubing on Grand Anse beach, thereby causing me to epicly wipe out into the salty ocean on a particularly crazy turn.
+ Sunday: Finding rabid bats perched above our heads as we walked through some eerie and dark old forts. If only they were rabbit bats, that would have been more Easter appropriate.
+ Monday: Ants waking up before us and eating all the cereal. You know what they say--the early bird gets the Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
+ Tuesday: Our friendly island tour guide teaching us how to smuggle a gun into the country, and then pulling his own smuggled gun out from under his seat and waving it at us to illustrate his point.
+ Wednesday: Cramming six people into our little, barely air-conditioned car (this was actually a week-long treat).
+ Thursday: Discovering that our bedroom door doesn't close all the way when Jared's little brother accidentally knocked it open while I was half-nakedly changing into a swimsuit. "Hi entire family sitting outside my door!" Is what I said. (Actually I think I lunged at the door and screamed "NAKED" at the top of my lungs. Our downstairs neighbors were probably home, and their windows were probably open. Such is my life.)
Just kidding, there were some better highlights than those good happenings. Here they are:
+ Saturday: Spending all morning and afternoon at the lovely BBC beach, getting lightly roasted.
+ Sunday: Easter basket and egg hunts (with legit silver coins in our baskets, because them Lamberts love them some precious metals)--thanks Mama L! Conference! A nice drive to see campus and the forts! A holiday dinner with actual family!! (Not that our two-person Thanksgiving dinner wasn't awesome...)
+ Monday: A catamaran ride to do some snorkeling and see the underwater sculpture garden.
+ Tuesday: An island tour where we saw a nutmeg factory, a chocolate factory, a crater lake, some hot springs, and a waterfall. We also ate fruits like cocoa (yes, it's a fruit--the soft flesh around the bean tastes kind of like mango), water lemon, and some weird brown fruit that looked like a kiwi but did NOT taste like one.
+ Wednesday: Dumping Jared's mom and siblings at a pretty beach to get toasted while his dad and I went and waited for three hours in a completely empty waiting room in a government building just to get a renewal stamp in my passport. Then we all had KFC for lunch/dinner, and when we found out that the movie theater was no longer playing the movie we wanted to see (Insurgent), we instead watched Paul Blart: Mall Cop on a laptop in our living room (that was a good life choice).
+ Thursday: Flying kites at the tide pools, having lunch at the University Club, and then hiking in the wretched-hot afternoon heat to Hog Island. That was maybe not a good life choice. But then we went boogie-boarding in some tiny and oh-so-satisfying waves and finished off the night with fruit smoothies.
Moral of the story, we had lots of fun. I only took pictures during the island tour, but enjoy all 19 of them, because I'm bad at narrowing things down!
