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Thank you, for your comments on Vacation: Week 1. I like the feeling of having an audience to interact with, it makes it less so that I’m just writing for my own pleasure and entertainment.

Week 2 has passed and has still been a sunny 33 degrees here on my beautiful home island. I’m actually going to miss the searing debilitating heat once I get back to Holland. Holland, where summer doesn’t necessarily mean summer dresses, BBQ and beach parties — I actually saw a photo of my mother-in-law back in Holland wearing a jacket (brr).

Okay, back to the quick summery of the past 7 days. So, I’ve completely made a 180 since, my menstrual meltdown (I heart over-sharing). Since my last blog BF and I went on a tour of the island, rented a jet ski, watched Prince of Persia and Iron Man 2. My dad knew “a guy” so the tour was free, but what they say is not true, the best things in life aren’t free. I’m not going to “look a given horse in the mouth”, but I was slightly disappointed by how little the tour guide could actually tell us about the monuments and sights we were visiting. Mind you, this was probably not a professional, I’m sure that there are many other tours which are more extensive and provide more information. We also went to a Folkloric Festival. You could buy a plate of authentic Aruban food for just 6,50 dollars and entrance was only 3 dollars. So I guess some people just showed up for the cheap dinner, because many people got up and left before the show was over. It could have also been because the entertainment was slightly repetitive, amateurish and chaotic. Gosh, have I become so critical because I’ve lived in Holland? I don’t know. Somehow, almost everything I used to love about this island disappoints me.

Moving on to something that’s really exciting: BF and I are going  to start a web-shop. We’re both confident we have a good idea, and until we’ve really worked out everything and have all our ducks in a row I’m going to have to keep it under wraps. We’ve been so busy working it out that we haven’t really done much vacationy — if that’s even a word — things. However, BF is here for another week, so I’ll make sure that it’s not all work and more play. Will keep you guys up to date.

Please check out BF’s blog. He won’t let me add him in the tags.

Blogging to you from a sunny island in the Caribbean. It is currently 33 degrees celcius, with hardly a cloud in the sky and a cooling North-Eastern breeze. I’m here to recap my vacation so far. I’m joined by Stomweblog, who is currently in the shower and cannot bother me at this time. My original intention was to give you a day by day recap of our vacation so far, but BF doesn’t shower THAT long, so I’ll give a brief summary:

We started off our vacation of course by going to the beach. Yes folks, BF and I were more than happy to make good on the yellow ‘tourist’ bands the hotel tagged us with and go to the beach to then come back to the hotel and lounge about by the pool. The hotel was happy to oblige us by charging us 7,- USD a drink, and so BF and I decided that we were not as touristy – if that’s even a real word — as the hotel makes us out to be and we stocked up on alcohol by going to our local, yet still expensive, supermarket.

So far we we’ve been to the Lighthouse, climbed the Hooiberg, swam at Baby Beach/ Boca Grandi and Eagle Beach, took a Sunset Cruise and dined at Coco Plum/ Plaza Café and Yami Yami. Everything was going according to plan until I got my period and BF got an ear infection. So, today I was kind of annoyed with the fact I actually grew up here. If I wasn’t a native, I wouldn’t feel partly responsible for BF’s “FunFactor”, which was at an all time low today; BF and I both couldn’t swim today and we didn’t plan any other activities. So, today we didn’t do much. Thank god my dad’s taking us out to dinner today, or else BF would’ve considered today a total waste. Later,we’re going for a ”walk”, which makes me feel like a dog that needs to be taken out every so many hours so I can do my ‘business’. I don’t mind staying in today and I’m perfectly happy doing absolutely nothing for one day. It’s our last day at the hotel anyway, there are 10 more days in which we can do “stuff” and be “active” and “get away from my parents” — last one actually needs no quotation, we will actually want to do that.

Not to end this blog on a menstrual rant; We ARE having fun and the Sunset Cruise was actually the highlight so far – being tipsy in front of my dad made me feel real grown-up, hihi. I know that we both have more to look forward to as this vacation progresses, we both need to get over our ailments so we can be the young care free couple we were when we landed.

PS

BF and I both bought matching rings    Update with pic of rings will follow.

PPS

Yes, I know the menstrual cycle is not an ailment, but can I for a moment not be the the staunch feminist praising the monthly contracting of my uterus as a blessing?

So, I wanted to go to Zumba today. I actually did the sensible thing and took my bike. I actually biked it in 20 min. Feeling slightly out of breath, but not quite knocking on death’s door, I got to the door only to find it locked.

Apparently the class was cancelled. No phone call, no e-mail, no text message? How could he end it this way?

Anyway, that’s not the point though. The point is I managed to bike to Zumba and back within 30 min and I got home not gasping for air, not needing the kiss of life, not aching all over. I’m not sure if my story so far has conveyed this, but my condition is/was very poor. However, after 7 weeks of Zumba it’s actually possible that my condition is improving. Yay! I actually weighed myself 2 weeks back and I weight about 2 lbs/ 1k lighter than what I started with. I was was so disheartened, I was hoping to see dramatic improvement in my weight. BF told me that I might be losing fat and gaining muscle. I didn’t want to believe him back then, but after tonight… I don’t know, I might be on track after all

So I was at work slacking off, looking at a restaurant both BF and I once talked about going to. I wanted to surprise him and make a reservation for our 2-year(and 1 month) anniversary celebration. No more than 2 minutes later did I get a phone call from him. He was in town earlier that day and saw a new restaurant; he wanted to try it out: The Living Room.

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Progress (1/12) :

• Go out and party once a month (0/12)
• Gather highschool friends for a reunion
• Throw a perfect B-Day Bash
• Keep daily journal (1/355)
• Go on a weekend getaway
• Have a weekly game night (1/52)
• Do volunteer work
• Call JD and arrange to meet  (Jan,23,2010)
• Make a snow angel
• Skype C.
• Get 25 followers on Twitter (0/25)
• Have 365 tweets (2/365)