Relaxed and relaxing are good themes for today, with a whole lot of
not much going on. That's a good thing:)
Alan the caretaker is much more pleasant at breakfast and with an
explanation of our (mis)adventures. The 2 tagalongs take off for
cheaper abodes while Amanda and I upgrade to a bigger, more
interestingly sculpted cabaņa. Relatively expensive at $35 a night,
it's more a work of art that you happen to sleep in than a hotel room.
The only light's from a few candles, and the floor is concrete mixed
with sand (1:3 ratio, as I learn from Alan while telling him about my
research on papercrete). Ditto for the walls to ~3 feet, and then
it's unfinished wood, a thatched roof, and some decorative paintings.
Turns out much cooler than I'm making it sound. Oh yeah: it's built
to incorporate several large and still growing coconut trees!
The day's wiled away, my first and only call home (and only maybe 3
email checks, which is less in 2 weeks than in a typical day back
home, woohoo!) for a lamely day-late happy mother's day to my momma,
some tasty pizza, boring diving videos to help us work towards our
full scuba certification, tasty slightly sweet pan de coco (coconut
bread) from a house across from a chained monkey who hangs from my
hand when I give him a mango from the ground 3 feet away, and a really
early bedtime. There's a lot to like about life on a tiny tropical
island, and I'm tempted to give a longer-term run at it a try:)