Above: Justin and I in front of the boat before we left
Above: This is the boat we went on. See the nets in the front that I talk about below?
Above: A picture of me sitting on the net (yes I have a towel around me because I am cold)
Above: From left to right (Justin, me, Sarah, David) Justin is holding an imaginary cone because he had already eaten his!!
Ok – so today I will tell yall all about the Les Saints trip. We had so much fun! Other than the fact that we look like Lobsters! Not good since I am going to my cousins wedding on SATURDAY!! I hope I don’t peel.
The sailboat we were on was so cool!! It had two huge nets in the front to lay on – they were kinda bungy like – like a trampoline. We laid on those the whole way to the island! It took about 2.5 hours to get there. It was so fun. If you get seasick – definitely not the trip for you. You get tossed around by the waves a lot and the nets are really nets – like as in you can see straight through them to the ocean!! So you would get a little splashed. Well – where we sat you would get a little splashed but if you were sitting on certain parts of the net then you would get SOAKED. It was so funny when people got hit by a huge wave of water and weren’t expecting it. Yesterday made me realize even more that Justin and I were meant to be together. We both love being on a boat. We love playing on the water. We talk about the break in August all the time because we cant wait to go to the lake. Yeah were excited to see everyone – but THE LAKE we might be more excited about. Just kidding!!! We are in love with the lake. Both of us dream about living on a lake someday.
Anyway – back to the Les Saints trip. When we got to Les Saints we went straight to get something to eat! Why is it that the water makes you hungry? It makes me want mac n cheese. I think that’s because when I was little – in the summers after I would go swimming I would fix mac n cheese. Anyway – we went to some French restaurant – I don’t remember what it was called. The whole island is French and it is so frustrating because no one can understand you! Im so glad that Dominica isn’t a French island. So luckily we were with some friends that are from Louisiana so she knows a little bit of French. At least she knew enough to read the menu!! We saw tea on the menu and got so excited. So we ordered it. When it came out it was HOT tea – that we had to make ourselves. It came with little bity spoons that I had to drink out of because I have a fever blister and could not “sip” on the hot cup. This was quite amusing to Justin and our friends.
So then we figured out what we wanted to order and Justin got the catch of the day. Which we could have sworn the waiter said it was otter but later we found out it was Dorado. Sounds nothing like otter – but I guess when the French say it it does! I got chicken – im not adventurous when it comes to food. Well – actually first I asked the waiter if they had shrimp and he gave me the funniest look. He was like – “Excuse me?” I repeated myself – shrimp. He then tried to say it. The funny thing was that he tried to pronounce it like me. So imagine a French man trying to put a southern twist into the word Shrimp. It then hit me that I make Shrimp a two syllable word and make the “I” sound more like an “e”. He said no so then I just went with the chicken (which was a whole thigh and leg). Well then some peoples food beside us came out and there plate had shrimp on it. I pointed to it and told him – that’s shrimp!! He said – no those are prawns!! Oh my goodness – this was a very entertaining experience for us.
So after we ate we went to get some famous Gelato. Which is what all the people talk about who had already been to Les Saints before. It was like ice cream – but better. It was really soft. We got something like peanut butter and chocolate. Except the chocolate was called Gnutella. We walked around and tried to find wine and cheese – but guess what?? We couldn’t find EITHER!! We were pretty disappointed but oh well!! So then we left around 4:00 pmish and pulled in around 7:00 pmish. Only one guy got sick – but it was so gross. He literally had his head in a trash bag on the way home. I felt so sorry for him!
Sorry this is so long but I knew yall would want to hear about my funny stories!
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