Sabang Island

FRIDAY

AM:

• Wake up with my sinus condition no better than it has been for the past two days - can't breathe and nose running like crazy
• Try to convince my boss that I need to go away for the weekend for the sake of my mental and physical health - he says no
• Make plans to go away anyway

PM:

• Meet up with a friend of a friend to hitch a ride to the port
• Take speed boat over to Sabang Island
• Arrive at beach resort and meet more friends of friends - all German, Austrian and Swiss
• Crack open a cold one
• Zeppelin
• Check into bungalo #3
• Go swimming in the clean warm water of the lagoon
• Eat dinner prepared by the European and Japanese staff of the dive shop
• Fall asleep under mosquito net back in bungalo #3

Saturday

AM

• Eat breakfast at the cafe overlooking the water
• Read a magazine in a hammock on the beach
• Rain begins - retreat to write in my journal indoors
• Nap in bungalo #3

PM

• Back to the cafe for lunch
• Hang out with the Euros at the dive shop
• Bust out with my rusty German language skills, much to everyone's amazement (including mine)
• Depart on small motor boat to go snorkeling with the Euros at offshore island - see jellyfish, starfish, crabs, manta rays, angel fish, and other colorful fish
• Back to bungalo #3 to change and have a beer
• Ride motorcycles with the Euros to have dinner at a restaurant up the coast
• Sleep

SUNDAY

AM

• Breakfast at the beach
• Swimming
• Sunbathing
• George Carlin and Lewis Black on the i-Pod Shuffle

PM

• Coca Cola
• Lunch
• Reading in the hammock - Aldous Huxley
• Nap
• German wine and candles with the Euros on the porch of bungalo #3
• Dinner
• Sleep

MONDAY

AM

• Ferry back to Banda Aceh
• Back to work