Last night Rolf and Samuel had us over for dinner.
As usual they made us an amazing dinner. Steak with an onion sauce, potatoes and salad.
Honestly by the time dessert rolled around the wine had gone to my head. So I don’t remember what this was. I am such a light weight now with alcohol which is a good thing.
There was ice cream, a sauce and a fruit I had never tried before.
I finally got my hair done today! It’s so nice to have a new look.
Sven tried to convince me he knew how to do hair. He put on rubber gloves and wanted to start dyeing it.
Instead I went to a salon called Hairarchy. Roberto worked a miracle to get it back into shape
walking out of the salon.
I’m on a major detox kick. While some people call Wasabi poison, I still try to think of it as medicine and a spicy condiment. But either way I’m ready to rid my body of any of it still hanging around.
Between teas, supplements and of course gin and tonics I’m cleaning out my system.
Sven wanted to swim with us today but the pool still has a strict only humans policy.
I’m starting to get back into swimming. I’m slow and can’t do many laps yet. But hopefully every day I can add one or two.
Today it was cloudy enough that I didn’t need my sun hat and sun shirt. I’m still being careful even in clouds.
I saw this soapy foam on the ground and for a very confused second thought it had snowed.
I also enjoyed this sign. It says slow children playing. From the picture I would think fashionable super models were throwing a ball around. Those are some fancy pants and shoes for playing children.
Now that I’m pretty much back to myself, we are trying to eat healthy. Today was chia overnight oats for breakfast, salad for lunch and lentil stew for dinner. It did NOT include these cookies.
The warnings in the lower right are for excessive sugar, excessive fat, and excess trans fat.
They have more warnings than a package of cigarettes.
This is a picture of an arepa which is what Samuel taught us to make last night. It looks weird but is really good. Samuel is Venezuelan and this is a popular food there.
It’s basically a dough patty made out of corn meal, fried, baked then stuffed with different fillings.
He’s shown us how to make several times and I almost have it down .
He would let me form them, tell me they were perfect, then remake them when I wasn’t looking.
Jeff had no arepa training so wasn’t allowed to make them.
I’m feeling really good. So close to being back to normal!
Today we tried the other swim up bar. It was also quite good.
I saw a lot of kids playing in this fountain and couldn’t wait to try out myself.
It was not fun. Not sure why kids liked it. It was like freezing cold water pelting my head. Luckiky there were 4 other pools to try out.
Also tried this Panamanian cheeto which was really good.
Now we’re back in Panama City. Our friend Samuel is teaching us to make arepas.
We had a great day at the pool and beach.
Its hard to believe since I have so much clothing on, but I am at the swimup bar.
This little kid and his brother had their own mini convertibles. When he drove by us at breakfast I waved. He nodded as if he was a 19 yr old cruising for chicks.
The ocean was great, no waves and warm. There was a steep beach and I knew getting out would be hard and funny. I asked Jeff to take pictures.
After several tries, a mouthful of water and a somersault in the waves, Jeff had to put the phone down and rescue me out of two feet of water. He beat the nice lifeguard who was also walking toward me ready to pull me out.
It was a great day. We’ll be sad to leave tomorrow but it will good because we are both burnt.
Thank you all for the amazing birthday love!!! It’s been a great birthday. We are at a resort on Playa Blanca two hours from Panama City.
Even though we see water from our apt, there is no beach in Panama City. Here we are able to feel the sand between out toes and swim in the ocean
Ironically the sand is not all white like the name suggests. There is also some spots with black sand which is still really pretty.
We are here for a long weekend. Tomorrow we plan to check out the swim up bar. I’m finally able to drink a bit so it’s good timing.
