Brace yourselves this is a long one, but a good one...
We had one of our best weekends yet and I did not want it to end. It all started with a glorious half day. Friday was CPBS Day, aka CPBS's birthday! The day started off with a whole school assembly/chapel/ceremony. It included singing some worship songs, performances by the band, song and dance by various grades, and a hilarious performance by the seniors. They dressed up as "color blobs" and did some hilarious dancing. It was awesome.
We then had a crazy hat competition. Here's a picture of some of the kids with their crazy hats and just being crazy.
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| crazy hats |
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| my crazy hat kids |
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| love this kid. |
The rest of the day was filled with random games and such. After the school day was over 3 of the girls headed over to West Bay Beach and Sarah and I went over to West End and went diving. It's always fun to be out in the water and diving. It wasn't the best diving experience we've had so far, but always fun.
The real weekend treat started on Saturday though. We decided to finally get out butts to the East Side and figured the best way to do that would be to rent a car. So we rented a crazy truck and hauled our behinds to the East End of the island.
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| the good life. |
We ran into a fruit truck on our way. Seriously some of the best fruit I've ever had and super cheap. I wish that truck was around always.
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| verduras, verduassss |
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| yummmmm |
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| back on the road with our goods |
We took the road until there was nowhere left to go and found ourselves on a random dock where we pranced around and took pictures.
We then turned back around and stopped at a couple of the places we had been hearing about but had never been to. We first stopped at Camp Bay. Super chill, quiet, place. Beautiful beach.
We then made our way to Paya Bay, a beautiful resort we had heard so much about. And let me tell you it was SO NICE! It's nestled on this beautiful cliff-side ocean front. There's 2 secluded beach fronts. A beauuuuutiful yoga deck that overlooks the water. And super cute little walking trails that lead you to the different parts of the resort. We ran into our friend Casie (she went to high school with my college roommate! SMALL WORLD!). She is a yoga instructor there and has been living there for about 2 months. She showed us around and we just spent the day lounging at the beach. It was awesome.
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| the public beach |
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| one of their private beaches |
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| All of us girls |
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| some of the rooms |
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| so epic. even the moon came out to say goodbye |
We had an awesome dinner there then headed back towards home. We did drive throughs of Oakridge and Jonesville, 2 of the towns on the East side. We then made a stop at the mall for some ice cream, then went back home and settled in for the night after a long day of adventure. We were pooped after the long day of adventuring.
The next day Ingrid and I woke up early to take one last joy ride. We drove over to Sandy Bay (the west side of the island) and stopped by the beach and took a little morning swim.
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| cruising some back roads by the beach |
After that we went over to West End and stopped in at one of our favorite restaurants, Earth Mamas. We shared a delicious smoothie and took some Banana Pinapple Pancakes to go. We booked it to the car rental place for our 9:00am drop off and had to sadly say goodbye to the glorious truck. It was a sad moment.
The rest of the day was spent cleaning my apartment. I have been FREAKING OUT lately because I saw a cockaroach chilling on my bed/pillow the other night and then proceeded to watch it crawl between the mattress and box spring. I didn't sleep in my bed for 3 nights. I went on crazy cockaroach prevention mode and tried by best to set up traps and clean every corner and crevice of our house. A part of me sees it as a lost cause and the other part of me refuses to believe they exist at all. It's ruined my life here haha.
After cleaning and such Ingrid and I decided to make our way up the road to our old Taxi driver's house to hang out/say good bye (he works on a boat on mainland now and is only home for a few days). But on our way we ran into some of our French Harbor friends (they work at a horse farm just up the road from our house). They offered to take us out on the horses and sticking true to the YOLO spirit of the weekend we hopped on some horses and went for a ride. They took us to this trail not far down the road which led to a little beach area. We just rode around for a bit and hung out. It was pretty awesome.
Needless to say it was just a really epically awesome weekend. I'm thankful for the overflow of blessings that are showered on us on this island. It's crazy how fast time is flying by here but we're just learning to enjoy each moment as they come. Thankful for crazy adventurous and refreshing weekends like these.
