Gili Meno pt2

Ok, back to that glorious second day, glorious because it rained>

So the 4 westerners suddenly became alive with the temperature drop and the cool fresh water rinse (since, of course, Bob and Liz's well water is also terribly soft.) We were laughing and playing in the rain, letting it wash the salt water off of us, while Bar sat sullen and cross-armed under the shelter of the roof. After all he did not join us for the cool dip in the seas after our long sweaty, dusty hike -- these islands are dry, since we are near the middle of the dry season. While we were playing in the rain like the young local kids (about 800 or so people lived on Tra-la-la). They reminded me of when we were kids and we would play in the mudpuddles on "dead end street"
growing u p in Corpus. (I am sure Ashley will remember the time someone drove by extra fast and drenched the two of us head to toe in the large puddle across from the Crumbleys (sp?). )

Anyway, Liz had made some delicious cookies and we had enjoyed them after my "shower" and the rain just didnt stop! The street started to flow like a muddy river (Bob said he had never seen that) and eventually we had to walk to our 4PM boat while it poured and lightening cracked. The street eventually overflowed onto the beach which eventually broke its "banks"(it was flat and sandy near the beach side dirt road, before falling to the sea) as we walked to the "bus boat" for our ride back to Meno. But oh how glorious it was to be so clean!

For you see that night before, I had been so hot and so salty that it was all i could do to get to sleep. And angie came in later than I -- around 11:30 or so after hanging and talking to Bar at his bar (bu-dum-pah). She woke me up, and I couldnt get back to sleep.... For one thing, everyone here burns their garabge -- and not together but individually, and that night the smoke from the neighbors was blowing directly into the room and the fan (no ac) which normally was a delight, was blowing the smoky air on me, and it felt like I could not NOT get clean -- slaty and smoky, YUCK! Anyway, after about an hour of tossing and turning, I went out to the beach and looked at Orion strangely up-side down as Gen said the constellations look in the southern hemisphere and saw two long shooting stars, before heading back thru the smoke line (about 3 meters from our door) and finally fell back to sleep. Keep in mind they do the laundry in the salty water too, and at $15/night with breakfast, there is no daily maid service -- so salty me in salty sheets for multi-nights = yucky gross!

gonna let someone else in again .... But we just laughed the whole rest of that night as we were clean and it was cool (after the rain) and so pleasant!!!