Evidence submitted for consideration.
1. Ed and I have placed a hefty wager. The bet is on who can hold out longer: trimming his beard or cutting my hair. Unless he goes latter day Brad Pitt style with ugly braids in his beard, in which case I will take care of it for him. In his sleep.
2. We waited until we had almost nothing left to wear before dropping off our laundry on Sunday night. On Monday we didn't pick it up before closing because we didn't want to miss the sunset. Koh Lanta is 96% Muslim and the following day was Eid al-Adha. The stray dogs howled along to the pre-dawn call to prayer, and we were roused several hours before our usual wake up, so we felt we had sufficiently participated. Point being, the laundry was closed as a result, so we just wore bathing suits all day and out to dinner. Finally yesterday I made the pilgrimage to the main road to collect our sunshine fresh threads, but we have yet to open the tidy, sealed bag that I retrieved. Hippies!
3. While walking on the beach, I collected shells and filled my shirt pockets with them. Upon later examination, I decided that one was particularly special. Using a leatherman and some string given to me by a Buddhist shop owner in Beijing, I made this necklace.
4. I ask at least once a day whether its Wednesday (I'm right 1 in 7). And this evening had to ask Ed when the last time I showered was.
5. The proprietor of our bungalow home invited me to go to market with her tomorrow to buy dragon fruit for afternoon snack.
6. My blog posts have become lists because I can't tell a cohesive story that has, like, paragraphs.
After a quick reread of the above, perhaps I've been hasty. Maybe we haven't been at the beach long enough?
1 comment:
Sweeeeet tan! And my personal feeling is that there's no such thing as too long in the beach. I'm sure it will not surprise you to learn that I am not-so-secretly hoping you guys end up buying a guesthouse on some beach and needing employees, say an IT person and a bread baker, so carry on. All is well!
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