I'm officially on vacation in a tiny Caribbean country called Turks and Caicos.
Yesterday, we played with kites on the beach. When they said kites, I thought we were flying small diamond shaped kites like we have in the philippines. Booooring! Apparently, North Americans have bigger and better kites. Ones that can drag you across the ocean if you stand on a board. It was intense.
In the evening, we went to a conch restaurant. A conch (pronounced /konk/) is a saltwater snail or its shell. Most of us have never had conch before, so of course, we all ordered conch for dinner. Sauteed conch. Curried conch. Deep fried conch. Stir fried conch... And it was only after we devoured all this conch when the cook comes out to ask us, "so how did the endangered species taste?"
With a full mouth, I nodded to let him know how good the conch was before I realized he said "endangered species." It turns out that conch is endangered in 95% of the world's places. The Turks and Caicos belongs to the 5% where it isn't endangered...where it is actually farmed. Still, I felt awful. They should have had a sign out there that warned people that they are about to commit a crime against humanity... or conchity. I would have ordered shrimp.
The Conch
Today, I had margaritas for breakfast. It wasn't technically breakfast since I woke up at noon. So it was more like lunch, and it was a damn good lunch. I headed off to the beach in the afternoon for a swim and to make sand castles. I did not complete my task so my castle ended up looking like porn material.
Kate and Andrew had left for Calgary today, so there's a few less people left. Still, it's a big clan so the rest of the trip should be pretty interesting. I'm looking forward to my first new year's eve in the Caribbean. I think we are having a bonfire tomorrow.
xox,
Katrina
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