
Sat Mar 2, 2002 - (I'm cheating, it's actually 10:47pm Friday night)
Sorry I didn't mention it before but it's due to the fact that it's a big surprise for "nameless" and I couldn't mention anything before because he reads the page.
So I'm afraid folks I won't be around for a week, I will instead be sunning myself on a beach not unlike the one your seeing above. So don't bother signing into spraggworld.com for a week, and I will promise to deliver lots of lovely pictures for you to peruse and be jealous over when I return.
Love and kisses....spraggwoman signing off (only for a week mind)
ARRIVED IN ANGUILLA
The place reminds me very much of Turks and Caicos but a bit greener. Our journey by cab took us through a main road with small shacks off the roads and lots of goats, actually though they also have sheep which apparently look like goats and the only way you can tell them apart is by their tails, goats tails are up, sheeps are down, (bit of useless information for everyone).
Ok so we arrived at La Sirena Resort to a beaming Hermes and Aphrodite who had snuck off from Mary Anne and Professor to meet us.
By this time I was hysterical and couldn't wait to see his face. It was worth it...the boy was very very shocked and chuffed as hell. It was funny because we walked up the steps to our beautiful villa, and I saw him sat there reading some cigar magazine. Aphrodite was laughing and mentioned something about a surprise and then that's when I popped my head round her shoulder. What a sweetie, he just sat my open, in complete shock, it was brilliant. Eventually he got up and hugged us all, I think he was pleased....
So after the intial excitement and the look of pure relief from Mary Anne we unpacked. Our room was great, sunny and bright with a huge bed and a pretty cool shower. Definitely big enough for two, if not more but we'll see I guess.
So after unpacking we all walked down to the beach...wow it's beautiful, the ocean was fierce but the water was warm, I'm so happy.
I'm not sure if you can see the rainbow from this picture but I promise you it was amazing. Professor was screaming at me to get this shot, so here it is.
Tonight we went to the Pump House which is a local swinging hang out that mainly locals go to I think. Of course we messed up, clearly on the first night you want to eat fish fish and more fish, but unfortunately this was your basic burger and pasta joint. Yes we were a bit disappointed but hey, shit happens.
Of course I completely embarrassed myself tonight, well I guess it's best to get it out of the way on the first night. You see Mary Anne had lit her little votive candle in her bedroom so I thought I'd do the same with my huge green pillar thing that I'd brought.
Half way through our meal she suddenly turned to Professor with a bit of panic in her voice regarding her candle and whether or not she'd left it on. Of course I hear this and completely freak, because I'm thinking, shit I've also left my candle on, IN THE BEDROOM, ON THE FUCKING WICKER DRESSER....heelloo???
So I try to call our hotel to get them to check, but I could only use the bar phone which was impossible because of the noise from the band. So then I used one of the many cell phones that we had, which just rang out, so eventually I asked this local guy outside if I could use his phone, as he passed it to me something fell out of his pocket, I thought it was money but apparently it was a packed of condoms, clearly embarrassing, he said to Morpheus that he never left home without his BOOTS, good thinking. Anyway back to the story, so I got Davis our new and personal cab driver that Professor had found and he took us back, yeah I made Morpheus come with me. He clearly thought I was nuts and I don't blame him.
So we get back, I run into the room and guess what?....THE FRIGGIN THING HAD NEVER BEEN LIT. SHITE, BOLLOCKS, CRAP.
I felt like a right plonker, of course Morpheus just gives me this look, yeah whatever, piss off. You see I remember thinking that I WANTED to light it but couldn't find matches and then we were leaving pretty soon so I didn't bother. I wouldn't mind but I wasn't drunk, think I was just tired.
So we drove ALL THE WAY back to find the others, they bar that they had gone to was empty so they piled in the van and we then came ALL THE WAY BACK to the villa again. The whole journey cost us $120 bucks which I guess was fair as Davis was charging us $30 per trip and we had gone back and forth. I made sure to put in $60 seeing as it was completely my fault, maybe I should of put in more? whatever.
So that was the first night, we went back had a bit of wine, I let the gang laugh at me for a while and then retired, completely knackered.
Ok so by the time you read this I will be well on my way, if not already in ANGUILLA, in the Caribbean.
Ok so the flight was very uneventful, we slept on the journey from Newark to San Juan and then met up with Tex Man and Sweat Pant Boy in the airport. They looked as excited as us and we all boarded our small plane for our hour journey to Anguilla.