Ups and Downs
Trip Start
Jun 14, 2005
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Trip End
Aug 20, 2005
Lance Aux Epines,
Grenada
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Havnt been uploading anything recently, so thought I would tell u what ive been up to recently, if i can remember, coz it mostly involves alcohol!
Well since I last wrote, its been pissssssing it down!!! Ive never seen so much water fall out the sky in all my life! There was a period where it practically didnt stop raining for 48hours, but now and then there would be torential monsoons. It rained so much actually that it flooded my beach! A beach! So the nxt day everyone was digging channels into the sand to drain it all. Its freshened the place up tho, but as soon as the sun hits the water, it just changes to steam in an instant and ur all of a sudden in a sauna. So there hasnt been much to do apart from play cards with everyone from liverpool
aquarium before getting soaked
. I swear I could win a world championship at Hearts now! We have even resorted to playing Slam like little girls, theres just nothing to do when it rains! We also just start drinking as well. Simon will ask me if i want a beer at about 11am and i just say why not...but it normally means another trip to the supermarket for more beer and rum by about 3pm. We are certainly doing well in the drinking games department, necking shot after shot of minging rum which just makes u feel sick rather than nice and warm inside.But then the sun came out! Down the beach, like proper albino brits! straight into a formation line for a marathon of sweating and sizzling! We went on the banana boat as well, but it was a short lived afair coz when we first fell off, nadia went crashing into simons shoulder, face first. She looked like she'd seen a shark or something but then the blood coming from her mouth and chin gave it away, chipped one of her front teeth, and a molar. So she went off for some hospitaly stuff. So that sort of put a skunner on the day! Back to the sunbathing! I actually got quite burnt that day, even tho i had put plenty cream on, on more than one occassion, so it flared up the guttate a bit which im a bit pissed off about, but hopefully it will die down again.
Weve had some nice meals in the last few days, unitentionally as it happened
drunk, and a little wet taking shelter
. Just thinking we were going out for a quiet cheap meal, we actually went to one of the most expensive restaurants around...was very romantic tho! Then i brought simon, karren and aisha over to the pad for a bit of sunbathing. Got the kayaks out as well, and being the men, me and simon went out, hydrofoiling across the caribbean sea. Well, actually, we only made it round both corners of the bay, but was cool all the same. Went begging for a beer half way at one of the boats that were tied up, but they were french i think and they didnt have any, fucking french! can never rely on them! So it was back to shore to pick the girls up and be the rough and ready men that we are and paddle them down the coast to the bar. This was really funny actually coz the bar is only about 100 metres down the beach, but id say it took us the best part of 30mins to get there! It was clearly the girls fault, over-reacting and tipping us into the water...me trying to protect my wallet like it was a pint of beer! And we kept sinking, must have been those two heffers that got in! hehe. So the girls were instructed to BAIL BAIL BAIL as the boys paddled as if we were about to be blown out the water by a submarine. Neadless to say, we didnt make much progress...about 10 metres before capsising again! But we battled on and finally made it. We did however get over taken by a wrinkly old lady who was laughing at us as she swam past us, little bitch!So after a hard 100 metre paddle to the bar we got in the beers and pinocoladas
gorgeous meal at true blue
! Well, quite a few of them. This bar is at the Calabash hotel for anyone who is interested, where gary rhodes has his restaurant! Na na na na na. Thinking we'd splash out, we had a sandwich! So it all came to over 260$!!! which is about 50 pounds! But we were all rather merry so who cares! U should try swimming in the sea when ur pissed, its a wierd sensation, quite a trip!Cant really remember what happened after that but sure it involved alcohol. I do however remember skinny dipping with aisha (although she had her underwear on which i think is a bit cheeky!) It was awesome tho! There was a thunderstorm at the same time, with loads of lightning, pitch black, skinny dipping in the warm water! I did have a lot of bites the next day tho, so it may have been the crabs!
Em, next night again was drinking, went to the Aquarium (no not the fish tank variety!) where we had copious jelly shots. Me, simon, karren and aisha (the usual 4 it seems) ended staying a bit longer, well, until we got chucked out. But it was pissing it down, with nowhere to shelter, so we started walking, trying to head-off the taxi that was supposed to have arrived half an hour ago! But we ended up in the most surreal place. Pissing it down with rain, lightning going off all around, woods on one side, and then just this door on the other
karren gets a faceful o f wet Tshirt
. It was just a plain wood door with two lights on either side, just standing there! Sure there must have been a house attached to it, but u could see it. Had a creeping sensation someone wielding a chainsaw was about to run out the woods. Oh, that was the skinny dipping night, just put two and two together, coz i was soaked, thought why not! LETS GET NAKED!!So that about brings everything up to speed. Could have summerized everything just by saying i got pissed for 5 days but hey ho
Oh, ur probably wondering why the title is ups and downs, well was dead chuffed about getting the olympics(will all need to go!) only to be told the next day that some fucking "in-the-name-of-islam"ers have set bombs off in london! really pissed me off. Think we should send in Team America - FUCK YEAH! u have to have seen the film to appreciate that one i think, unless ur a lets-blow-everything-up kinda person, like me
Dont really know what im talkin about now, so will sign off. Going to try and get some more pics on soon, if i can find the camera cable :S
Catch yas l8r,
Andrew
