Birthday Shenanigans

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May 2nd 2006

Published: May 20th 2006

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KevoAlex

Birthday cocktail

The first of many

One of the many reasons for this trip was to be somewhere cool and memorable for my birthday. Caye Caulker is certainly fits into this category. The island's motto "Go Slow" is taken very seriously on this beautiful laid back island. It's quite ironic, considering the sign is one of the first things you see when you alight from the incredibly fast speed boat.

I had a fantastic day. Lots of birthday wishes on the email from my family and friends which set the day up nicely for the crawl of cocktail happy hours. Much to my growing frustration, Su and Adrian kept dissappearing throughout the day to "make a phone call" or go back to their room as they thought "they left the tap running". Imagine my embarassement, guilt and excitement when they rocked up in a golf buggy which they had hired for my birthday. Superb. Then, imagine my frustration - driving a golf buggy after an afternoon of happy hours on an island (where the only vehicles are golf buggys and bicycles) where the moto is "Go Slow". A common shout from the local rastas were "Too fast man, if you were walking you'd be going to

Birthday buggy

hours of fun

fast".

The climax of the day was a party at Wish Willy's restaurant - (our local rasta friend of friend from Adelaide) with our new friends that we picked up on our cocktail crawl and a huge birthday cake that Su and Adrian and somehow managed to organise in between phone calls and turning off taps 😊 An unforgetable birthday.

Just in case I did forget my birthday Alex had organised an amazing unforgetable 3 day carribean sailing trip (I think she is aware of the history of amnesia in the family...but come on, I'm only 30!). The trip consisted of three days of blissful sailing, in the evening camping on deserted cayes with a handful of coconut trees, world class snorkling, as much rum punch as you could drink, fishing - real fishing with a spear and a rubber band...The whole experience was "Awesome"; a phrase which we quickly picked up from Mike and Laura, a
Canadian couple who were also on the boat. These guys were a great craic and happened to be on their honeynoon. Unfortunately for them I felt I was always sitting between them spinning crap when they were trying to have some

Sunset drinks

"one-on-one honeymoon time" or randomly appearing from nowhere with a spear when they attempting to snorkle away hand in hand... Ah they loved it really and we hung out with them for a few days after the trip in Placencia.

For those sailing buffs - the boat was a 30ft Hunter, with one big sail and wee one at the front.

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