Happy Mother’s Day to all the mami’s out there 😉
As I sit here drinking my tea, “Wasting Time” by Jack Johnson is playing and I am in disbelief that this is happening to me, like did I die and go to heaven?! I am staying in this place and it’s unreal. This place has magic, in the sky, in the water, I feel it, in my hands, in my mind and in my heart. I love it. I wanted to recap this day separately since many things happened. Today was an emotional day, I missed my family and those in my chosen family. Today is Mother’s Day, and I missed giving my mom and my sister and my niece, a hug, as well as the rest of my family and my buddy Wayne and Phil. In addition to that, I woke up pretty stuffed up, which put a dent on my morning scuba class, but I am here to enjoy this place so I said ok, let’s make it the best day anyway.
I FaceTimed with my mom and my family as they were getting ready to go out to brunch and I had my breakfast and my shake. I decided that today was going to be an outing day, hiking at Carambola Gardens or monkey tour, so I messaged D and K to see if they wanted to go, but she had to work so D and I went to check out Carambola Gardens. It said they weren’t open on the website, but D messaged them and they said: Come along! 🙂 We arrived and Mr Bill Brady came out to meet us. He gave us an intro and told us about the garden and the view. D and I hiked up to the viewing point, it was a pretty cool view, it overlooks Anthony’s Key Resort and the channel there and you can see where the reef wall is and it’s a cool path. You could tell that the garden has not been visited much since the covid stuff, but it was really nice to be have the garden all to ourselves. We hiked back and Mr Bill was right there to receive us. We sat down and chit chatted with him for a while and his rescue dog. Mr Bill told us of the Garden’s history dating back to 1985 and what amazing treasures could be found there. He moved to Roatan when he was in the Peace Corp and played baseball with a Honduran team, he’s a pretty cool man. We headed back home and we all had lunch.
I came home and took a nap right after with some medication. It is so nice to fall asleep to the sound of the wind and the palm trees. I woke up, and wanted to get in my fish tank pool, so I changed and went over. I haven’t been able to go for a few days because the carpenter fixing it, Rey had an issue and vanished. I wasn’t very happy with him for not communicating with me. So I went to check it out and I could walk on it, granted I skipped a few missing boards. It was sooooo lovely. It felt so good so I went for a snorkel. I saw a large crab, a bunch of conch, all color fishes (I’ll learn their names eventually), a pufferfish, a barracuda and some snapper. I swam back into a cloud of tiny fish and got out, that was really cool. As I come out of the water, I realize one of my sandals and my dress have gone with the wind, so I spend a long time in search for them, but no luck. I came up to my oasis, and it’s time to eat. In my inspired emotion, I made myself egg salad lettuce wraps, and potatoes with the local tomatoe spicy jam , (its sooo freaking good, Jj and his gf Keri from Canada make them). All together my meal came out pretty good. I love the flavors and well, Appetizers are my fave type of dinner! Yum! I stepped outside and shared a lovely sunset time with my mom and family on FaceTime. I took a hot shower, covered up in Vicks, made me my tea and now I sit here sharing my time with you.
I’ve stepped out a couple of times when I didn’t feel like typing. I went outside to look at the stars from my dock, I laid on it gazing at the bioluminescence for a few minutes, and when reality sank in, I became overjoyed and I started dancing on the dock, I can’t remember what song was playing, but it made my night.
I am so grateful to be here, that God guided me to live this. I am getting to know me on a very personal level, what I like, what I don’t, who I am, and who I want to be…and just now “Shot reverse shot” comes on by Jack Johnson, and damn, I start moving in my chair. I find myself profoundly moved. I think of everything that has led me here and I am left perplexed, I don’t know what I did, but I am very grateful for it all. I love this place, I love the breeze , I love the sounds, I love the views, I love the smells, I love how alive it is, how warm it feels inside. It is so me right now, my cultures come together so perfectly here, I love it … I miss my love ones, everyone of them, but I am in a relationship, a new found relationship, a relationship with myself…
I hope you stay tuned to the next few days to come and join me during my time in Roa 😉
Here are some shots from the little treasures at the Garden today and sunset for this Mother’s Day… “Flowers for all the queens that are mothers, those are for you”… Happy Mothers Day!
