My 25th birthday weekend in Haiti was awesome!! Saturday I basically spent the day by/in the pool, just reading and floating and enjoying the weather. Around 7:30 Andy & Jake (2 architects living at the guest house) & I decided that birthday drinks would be fun. We went to Hotel Montana and sat outside enjoying the fresh air and ice cold beer. Just as we were about to head to the car, it started
pouring!! Rather than getting absolutely soaked, we settled in for 45 minutes and another beer haha. Came back to the guest house and had a mini ping pong tournament before bed...I'm sure they were regretting letting me play once they saw my skills haha.
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| Haitian beer :) |
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| view of Port-Au-Prince from the Montana |
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| crazy rain!!! |
Woke up at 6:30 today and I was 25! Haha - how weird to be a quarter of a century old. Spent the morning reading & drinking coffee outside in the sun. Alise, the head PT at the clinic, picked me up at 10 with her husband and her cousin and we headed to Wahoo Bay Beach Resort! It was an absolutely perfect sunny day, and the beach was gorgeous with the mountains in the background.
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| beautiful Wahoo Bay |
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| one of the "water taxis" |
We spent about 6 hours at the beach, and I think I was only out of the water for about 45 minutes to have lunch. I had DELICIOUS grilled conch with a spicy creole sauce, rice & beans, & plantains - yum!
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| birthday lunch! |
Between swimming, floating, and diving to look for fish and shells, I ended up with a pretty good sunburn. Definitely a birthday first for me - how often does someone from Massachusetts with an October birthday get to spend their birthday at a gorgeous tropical beach?!
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| view from the pool area |
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It was so great of Alise to include me - it was nice to spend my birthday with such sweet & welcoming people! Speaking of sweet people, I came home to this delicious cake made by Hadrien, Andy, and Jake!
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| birthday cake! |
All in all, a wonderful weekend. Now we're watching Sunday night football and listening to another crazy thunderstorm. How good is my life?! So thankful.
xo
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