The way the expats play

Since Jackie and I had had such a strenuous voyage out to our meeting yesterday morning, we had to do something super relaxing in the afternoon :)

One of my friends is leaving the country this week, since her contract is over on Thursday, so she wanted to take a boat trip out on the River before she left. So yesterday was the day! There's a camp by the river which will take you out for a ride on their motor boat, then drop you at their little island where they do a BBQ and let you lounge around for a few hours, then they come with their boat and take you back to "real" life!

It was such a beautiful day - there were 9 of us all together, from different organizations and different countries, and it was just so relaxing to get out into "nature" (that is, away from the traffic and trash of the city) and spend some time with friends, doing not much of anything except eating and chatting and enjoying the trees and the river!

Our boys. I think both of them were quite relieved to see the other show up - perhaps neither of them was relishing the thought of being trapped on an island in the middle of the River with a bunch of women?!

Annamarie and I were having way too much fun playing "tourist" in our own town!

Fortunately, everyone else on the boat was playing tourist, too, so we fit right in :) Man, who knew my ponytail was getting so long!!

Lori was also having way too much fun on the boat ride!

Once we got to the island, the guys who had gone to set things up before hand had everything all ready! It was amazing - BBQ chicken and lambchops! Yum yum.

And then we did a whole lot of nothing.

And some more of "nothing".

But eventually, it all had to come to an end. The sun started to set, and it was time to head back to the mainland :(

The sun setting was a lovely end to the day!

It really was a most relaxing day!