Dover Beach Christ Church

... to Rhonda and her advice, we also visited St Nicholas Abbey, which was lovely…..and in the evening treated ourselves to dinner at The FishPot (excellent) after lunch at Nanika (no wonder we piled on the pounds this holiday)!

All in all, a most relaxing and enjoyable end to our Caribbean adventure…..the R&R necessary to ensure a calm approach to our 44 hour journey back here to Surabaya!

... his hardest to get me on a plane, however my not acting fast enough led to a very good ticket for $500US slipping away. So I pulled some strings, and I'm now going to Toronto direct on Wednesday I'm bummed out like mad that I can't go to NYC and possibly not even Detroit, but I guess it just happens sometimes. Next time I guess.. But at least now I can go to Canada! Wednesday can't come fast enough.

This is my third day trying to get out of the island on standby. I was 38/47 on the list earlier. So many families of staff members using their tickets for holiday.. It's insanity. It seems to be impossible to get out of the Caribbean right now! Hopefully I'll figure out something soon, otherwise I may have to cancel parts of my itinerary.. :(

... secondary motive here was to see the old stomping grounds of our dear friend and benefactor of this here honeymoon, CW. We wandered around the area where his place was for a good hour, a quiet residential neighborhood with many very nice and very huge houses which reminded me very much of Ranchos Palos Verdes in LA. Back and forth and up and up and down we wandered, past the lighthouse, and back again. But we couldn't find the place.

We ...

... the church that dated almost five hundred years ago. It was kind of creepy walking all around them, but this is what made the whole place intriguing and captivating.

We stopped for while along the ocean to admire big huge boulders right on the shore. It was absolutey beautiful seeing them.

Our next stop was at the Highland Adventure Center where we sipped a complimentary soft drink. It was relaxing and we enjoyed the view once ...

... is so beautiful. I just couldn't believe my surroundings. At the bottom of the ocean, the corals were spectacular. Words cannot describe beauty. You have to see it to believe it. What a fantastic experience that I am not about to forget soon.

After the snorkel off we went to another beach where we relaxed and swammed for a while before returning to the ship.

Thankful for snorkeling,

Mo

... assumed everything was fine. Did she make a mistake? I knew I only got one day coming through, but I only needed one day then, so didn't think much about it. Maybe it's a good thing my trip got cut a day shorter, since at worst, now I've just got a two-day overstay to account for, hardly the stuff of police action. Hell, for all the hassle Trinidad just gave me in transit- as if somehow they KNEW I was winging it (luckily I ...

... mer, surtout pour Claudia, puis c'est simplement un combat pour marcher et faire quoi que ce soit. Ne surtout pas essayer d'uriner debout... Du coup on est assis ou allonge la plus part du temps, nos muscles s'atrophient ou pas loin et pou cuisiner je vous raconte meme pas. Les jours sans vent et sans vagues sont encore pire; non seulement on avance pas, on se fait chier comme des rats morts, mais en plus le bateau bouge ...

... the day of the week is or what work i have to do. i have (sorry mom!) put school in a secondary position behind squeezing out every last possible drop of fun i can have here. essentially, i decided a long time ago that i didn't want to look back on my barbados experience and remember studying in my dorm or reading at the library. i am keeping up in my work; i'm just not staying quite as ahead as i probably should be. it's funny: eap kids in the dorms get such a ...

... disappointed that i missed it and didn't get to celebrate with my fellow freshers, but i think my body was trying to tell me something. so instead of celebrating that night, i made some dinner and went back to bed. i think i slept for somwhere around 17 hours that night. it felt great. on sunday was the fresher's dinner, which i already described earlier. on monday i started class. i arrived to my first class about 10 minutes late: i assumed that classes would start on island time (like ...