Saturday, March 30, 2013

perish the thought

I'm more than a little exhausted because the assholes in the apartment above us last night partied until four am - but today was awesome. Or at least it was awesome if you love ridiculous disasters. We made it to the airport with plenty of time to make our tiny tiny plane to Vieques. Vieques is an island off the east coast of Puerto Rico, and the flight was 25min in a Cessna so small they had to weigh us and all our luggage, and there were only eight ppl plus our pilot. It was a little freaky, but we made it!

And then our troubles began. We got picked up by the guy we're renting our apartment from, a barefoot islander with Rastafarian leanings, who helped us get our rental jeep. Then we messed around, grabbed a prolonged lunch on the water, and then made it to the beach just as it started pouring. I'm pretty sure we immediately became the most ridiculous people on the beach when we made ourselves a shelter of a blanket and a towel and huddled under it for ten minutes. Then we ran back to the he car, sat there for half an hour playing Chinese poker, and then tried another beach. It rained there, too, but we just sat in the ocean to pretend we were enjoying being wet.

The rest of the day was equally ridic- the entire island lost power for a couple of hours, and I was glad I brought a flashlight like a good little prepped. But we eventually had an awesome dinner in Esperanza, where o had shrimp and lobster mufungo (I don't know what that means either). And now I must sleep...if I have to sit in the rain again tomorrow, I want to be well rested first. Goodnight!

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