Seriously, I am. The mosquitoes here are out to get me and nothing I do is helping. I spray Deep Woods Off! constantly, but to no avail.
It's really pathetic. I haven't been massacred to this level of extreme since I was last in Puerto Rico visiting my grandparents (which makes so much sense because PR is sort of close to Anguilla).
Anyway-- despite my bugbites, life here is good. I went running for the first two days but stopped because there are wild dogs everywhere and you never know if one is renegade enough to attack me. I'm sure (positive) that I'm being paranoid, because all of the dogs seem very friendly and wag their tales all the time, but I'm a runner alone and I'm really not interested in pushing my chances.
So we've been snorkeling in the reefs twice since we got here and it is just the coolest experience. When we went yesterday we had this boat man named Calvin drive us out to this bay (on his boat) and we stayed there for two hours. There were literally MILLIONS of this one school of fish all around us, it was so weird. Like a city of them. And there was construction going on the cliff over us so the fish would freak out when this one loud noise started going, and that was sort of scary. But boy was it cool. I made myself really proud while we were there, and we all climbed barefoot in our swimsuits up this cliffy rock thing and then jumped off of it. That one time I went rock climbing with Brian and Rob really came in handy for that experience.
We also went ziplining the other day!!!! It was much much different than I expected it to be. The directions they gave us made it sound really scary and dangerous, but I guess even if you have like 1% common sense you'd still be okay. The whole thing was like an obstacle course, so we weren't just zipping around the whole time (though that would have been cooler). I broke such a sweat by the end, it was ridiculous.
Andddddd the food has been pretty good so far. I ate a fish burger which is just weird and random of me, but it was very good. My body has been rejecting the idea of chicken lately, just thinking about certain types of it makes me nauseous. Brian told me that the reason for this is because that's pretty much the only meat I eat, and my body is looking for more variation. So I've been trying to eat more shrimp and stuff, and that's the reason I had the fish burger.
THE WATER IS SO BLUE HERE. It's like you see in the commercials except BETTER because it's actually here where I am and I can touch it and swim in it, and not just watch it on the tube. AMAZING. I'm still not over how clear it is and we've gone in the water every day since we've been here.
St Maarten's is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. All those pictures I showed you guys from the Bliss Villa website??? WELL IT'S SO MUCH BETTER IN PERSON. Brian and I get to have the Master bedroom. It's fucking like, loaded with amazing things. We have a DVD and TV in our room, a Bose ipod player, a HUGE walk in closet with wall to wall cabinets, our own master bathroom with tons of mirrors, a really deep sunken bath which is enormous, and a shower with no curtains and it's just open. And it like rains on me instead of showers me. And since it has no curtain and lots of mirrors...I CAN WATCH MYSELF SHOWER. AHAAAAAHAHA.
And ummm. OH. The bathroom is all open with the windows and so instead of having regular shades that you close, the shades are ELECTRONIC. WHAT?!?! HOW HOLLYWOOD IS THIS SITUATION. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The house is pretty much bigger than mine and yours put together which is just ridiculous. And it has a computer. And. Just so much stuff, and I'm trying to take as many pictures as I can and stuff. Also, our bedroom walks out onto the back terrace, which is also enormous and goes to the other side of the house and also past the Infinity pool (which I think you've seen, but it looks like the pool is melding into the ocean, and it's salt water not chlorine.)!!LKLAKGKDA:
I LOVE IT HERE I COULD SO GET USED TO THIS LIFE.
AND DRIVING ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD.