Year of the tiger-lilly

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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?