We just woke up after a HEAVY ONE. And the aircon in the room doesn’t seem to be working too well! But , lets see… um the Netherlands got beaten quite convincing by the Aussies – much to our disappointment!
We took a bit of a walk yesterday down to the beach at Frigate bay to see what the place looked like. It was pretty cool standing on the hill abt 200m down the road and being able to see both sides of the island. We walked for a bit, then got a lift from an American whose wife was studying at the nurses school. He was on the way to the Marriot to do some gambling, and dropped us off at the road down to Oasis – where we signed the wall. Getting to the beach – the sand was pretty dark, like volcanic type. OMY- Texas walker is on the USA channel now – unreal. Anyways We walked down the beach, and I must say – It looked a whole lot nicer on Friday night. Mr X’s watersports is supposed to be THE place to do jetskiing etc, but most of the equipment parked on the beach looked completely toasted. Walking down to the Marriot, the Banana Bus stopped and the guy gave us his card, and recommended that we organise a trip round the island with him. He showed us his rum, and pumped his sound system to show us his bus. Seemed like a cool tour to go on.
We kept walking passed the Marriot, trying to find a way back. There was a golf course on the left, with a driving range and it seemed like a better idea to go round the back of the golfers, so we did. Maxwell showed up a little while later telling us that we weren’t supposed to be there, and he gave us a lift in his golf cart abt 70% of the way back. Shyte – we had walked a long way! In the cart he was telling us that there were riots etc back in Pakistan cos they were playing so badly, and that the coach wasn’t allowed back into the country. This was after Ireland beat them the day before.
After getting back to the hotel, we were watching the game, and heard that the Pakistan coach had been killed in his room – apparently he was shot? I guess some people take the game a little too seriously! Anyways, we chilled for most of the day and watched tv and made burgers. Around 6ish we headed back to the dutch pub for some drinks. We bumped into the aussies from Friday night, and bought tickets for the Neth vs Scots game on Thursday. We had a beer, then stepped up after that. And did we step up! The rum and coke was in a small cups and was about 70% rum 20% ice and the rest coke. After the first one, I think I was feeeenished, but we kept going. Some of the dutch team rocked up a little later, and I got my pic taken with the guy who Gibbs hit for 6 sixes. He seemed like a pretty cool chap.
James was talking to one of the guys as well, and asked him where he was from. The dude was like “Im one of the dutch players”, he did some quick back peddling to say “Oh yeah, why didn’t you say so”. We’re not too sure what time we left, but at the end if the night, we had about 3 dollars, and 40 Jamaican between us, and of course 2 drinks cos we figured we were going to walk home. Luckily we got a taxi who accepted the money we had.
I woke up this morning, finding my camera on the one couch and my wallet on the table, I thought I drank them both out. James made bacon and eggs this morning, which has probably saved us!
We’re planning on heading in to town today to hopefully post this on the net.
Speak later….
Irie!
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