Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sept 11 2nd last day in Playas - beach day

when we woke up today the sun was shining through the clouds and it looked quite promising. i got out of bed first and packed us a picnic to take with us.


on the way to the water we stopped and watched a children's marching band that was playing in the street. they were all so cute. they even had a group of little salsa dancers with them. it seems like the salsa rythem is given to these little girls at birth. man can they dance!

by 11 am we were at the beach taking in the sun and watching the people. it seems we are always up and active before most people around here, we always have a good selection of beach chairs to choose from when we get to the beach.


we spent the whole afternoon taking turns cooling off in the water and watching our bags. the water was so nice today and the current wasnt as strong as normal which made the swimming easy. there were police officers wipping around on atv's doing wheelies all day too, so funny to watch. way to set a good example ;)




we bought a few snacks and drinks from a few of the many vendors along the beach. this included another coconut  but it wasnt nealry as good as the first one we had. i dont think it was ripe enough and the meat from the inside was soft and almost geletain like. we ate as much as we could in front of the sweet old man who cut it up for us but as soon as he wasnt looking we had to through it out.




abbi was told that we were invited for dinner at carmen's house but we saw her a few times after we got back from the beach and she never mentioned it, so we assumed she forgot. we have to use up all the groceries we bought anyways so we made ourselves dinner of quinoa and fried mushrooms. it was disgusting. the worst meal of the trip, but hey at least we are not wasting food right?!

when we were chatting with carmen today, she told us that she was having company over at around 8pm and she'd love for us to join her. so abbi and i got dressed up whatever we could find that looked semi pretty, and we even put make-up on. we havnt worn make up for weeks! unfortunatly carmen's guests never showed up. we felt quite bad for her so we spent a little time with her before we gave up on waiting at 1030.

tomorrow is our last day here... i cant beleive it. its gone by so fast. we are hoping for more sun :)

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