Sunday: traveling to Margarita

It is supposed to be raining the whole week in Margarita. Sun is shining in Grenada when we leave to the airport. We go through immigration pretty fast. Don't have to wait in lines at all.

We go to fairly small Conviasa plain. The flight was okey, but the flight attendants didn't quite know what they were supposed to be doing. There were too few forms for immigration (to enter the country) and they started giving them just before landing. We got only the H1N1 flu form.

In immigration we got the right paper and after filling it were able to continue out. We were out the airport before our ride to the hotel had arrived. We didn't need to wait for long before the ride came along. :)

It took us about an hour to get to the Tropical Refuge. It only rained few drops during the ride. That was the only rain that we saw during the whole stay. Susan was really worried if it was going to rain and if the trip was waist of time.

The hotel looked pretty nice, even though there weren't any shops around it. I didn't mind that at all. Our room was not as big as we might have imagined and it also had a mouldy smell.

First we went to the pool to enjoy the sun and not so heavy air. As we had all inclusive wrist-thingys we got all our drinks for free. The dinner (breakfast and lunch) were buffet style, so we could choose what we wanted. There was chicken and beef/pork everyday and fish sometimes. I would say that it was fairly good.

We didn't do much on sunday as we didn't know what we could do or where to go.

Grand Etang today, Venezuela tomorrow!

Today we are going to go to see the rain forest, crater lake and Fortress :)) And maybe a waterfall...

Tomorrow we will be leaveing to Isla de Margarita :) Stay there for 5 days in Tropical Refuge hotel (with all inclusive and near by beach). So I won't be near internet for a week ;)

Dance if you can!

My aunt has this game where you need to dance on a mat-thingy. Well me and my friend decided to try it :) As what I have seen is should be fun (and quite easy).

My friend tried it first. She decided that the beginner level is hard enough (and later I agreed). The music is mixed music from dancable music to not so dancable. I have to admit that it is a good work out. Especially when it is as hot as it is here.

Any ways, the main point is that I defenately cannot dance :)) I have two left feet (or two right ones). I try to listen to the music, but that makes it worse. I think I would do best if there were no sound.

At the beach!

I went today to the beach with my friend who came yesterday evening. First we did some shopping and then we walked from the store to the beach. It is nice and warm here (FYI) and not so many tourists...

I think I would have preferred a bit more tourists as now all the salesmen/women came to us before we had settled in. Oh well. At least the beach was white, it didn't rain at all and water was warm.

I didn't swim this time as I was trying not to burn myself... I think you know what that means. I have to say that I didn't burn myself as bad as last time. And yes I did put the sun lotion! More then once.

Well what can I say. I am very white. Well the basic colour of my skin is see through. My own grandmother has told me once that I look like a ghost :))

Friend is coming over!

I have been alone for a week now. A week ago to the date, Sonja and Jouni left to Finland. Today my friend Susan is coming over from Finland for few weeks. She is going to just relax and enjoy the sun. I am going to try to work and enjoy the sun.

I hope we have enough stuff to do so she won't get bored. She likes to go out in the evening but here there really isn't any places to go. Also it is not very safe for us to walk aroung in the evening. Well at least that is what our house keeper and friend/taxi driver has told us. As they are locals we better trust their words.

Now the beach is a bit far away. I think one might walk there, but I am not sure if my friend would like to walk there by herself. So we need a ride to the beach :( I myself like to walk around, but don't feel like it here. I think the reason is mostly because no-one wants to walk with me (meaning Sonja or Jouni) and they are just warning me all the time.

So it is nice to have someone over, who is not overly scared of everything. I hope while she is here, we would walk to the cinema and back. It is not very far away. But we will see what happens. :)