CAIT AROUND THE WORLD

April 7, 2023 — On Good Friday, I packed up my stuff, had breakfast and some coffee (we love free coffee at hostels!) and checked out of my room. I took a Beam scooter to get to the ferry terminal which was a really fun experience! I took the 11:00am ferry after purchasing a return ticket from the desk.

When I arrived on the island, I was really happy to find that the IGA beside the ferry terminal was open. I picked up some food for the next few days: cereal, milk, ravioli and red sauce for dinner one night, and leftovers. After I’d stocked up, I waited for and then took the island bus to the hostel.

I finally arrived but had forgotten that check in wasn’t until 3:00pm. I was starving so I got lunch from the hostel bar/kitchen and enjoyed a Somersby apple cider. It was a hot day and the gorgeous ocean views just begged for that. Plus, the Good Friday rules were that you couldn’t purchase alcohol without buying food, and that you had to purchase any alcohol within two hours of ordering said food. That, in my mind, was permission to purchase yet another cider while I worked on the blog after chatting with a girl who had, apparently, been at my previous hostel, in the same room.

I finally got into the room at 3:00pm and this is where shit really started to hit the fan. The room was sweltering. The air conditioning either wasn’t on or wasn’t working worth a damn and after two days of non-functioning air conditioning in tropical humidity and heat, I was so done with being too warm. I hoped that it would cool down soon and went for a cold shower in the meantime — which wasn’t all that cold. Think that middle ground between lukewarm and cold that you might enjoy on a hot summer day unless what you really wanted was to be blasted by an ice bath. Having had a cool-ish shower, I curled up on my chosen bunk in a sports bra and shorts and relaxed for a while.

I’d had such a big lunch that day, I wasn’t very hungry for dinner. Instead, I enjoyed the view of the moon on the water when night fell and called home when I finally got enough signal to do so. After we hung up, I brushed my teeth and fell into bed.

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