Dominic and I spent the holiday weekend with our friends Kevin and Greg at a beach called Ti Mouillage, which is about 2.5 hours away from Port-au-Prince. The weekend itself had many adventures which will be covered this week in the blog! We left early on Saturday for a day at the beach! I can't claim to remember much of the drive down as I was concentrating on keeping my malaria medicine down, but besides that the trip was such a success!
The hotel we stayed at was called Cyvadier Plage. The views were spectacular and-- luxury of luxuries--we had AC! There was a balcony off of our rooms that looked into the hotel's private cove. It was truly a fabulous beach get away. We spent the later part of the afternoon reading on the balcony and it was so relaxing!
We tried out the hotel's private beach first, where Kevin and I tried to navigate what turned out to be the strangest lawn chairs ever. If you lean back in the chair your legs were at a forty five degree angle, if you wanted to sit up you had to scoot all the way to the end of the chair. Neither of us were very graceful in our endeavor to conquer the chairs! But Kevin's hat was awesome!
After the quick trip to the private beach, we decided to hit the big time and go down to the big beach and also grab some freshly caught seafood for lunch. My lunch was DELISH, but the fish itself had teeth which left me wondering about how deep I should go into the waters. The fish had a barbecue flavor and was served with one of my favorite Haitian dishes which are banann peze ak pikliz
("fried plantains with spicy coleslaw").
While shooting some photos on the beach, Dom pointed out this little timoun ("little man") climbing a palm tree. It was ridiculous! The tree was so tall, and he just hiked himself up it like it was no big deal.
As always in Haiti you find things that surprise you, so in case you had any doubt, please do not bring any firearms to the next Haitian Hotel you visit.
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