And I'll go back to the good stuff. although your comment about steak made me absolutely ravenous katie. jerk. SO, last weekend I participated in a triathlon here in Palau! Before you get too excited, I did it as part of a team, which felt a little bit wussy compared to the japanese men and women who came here and ran half iron man races all by themselves (that's a 1.5 mile swim, 90 km bike and 20 km run... in 90 degree heat people). I did only the run part of the olympic distance triathlon, which was a whopping and VERY painful 6.2 miles. The problem wasn't the distance per se (although that didn't help), but rather the 90 degree heat, humidity, lack of any wind and the roughly 3 miles uphill. I literally almost died on the side of the road... but I think I looked pretty cute while doing it. i'm attempting to post a picture.
After that, I went sailing on the Sea Gypsy, my friends' awesome 23 foot sailboat. we took it to one of the rock islands the Americans call Margie's beach. There, we consumed some tequila, swam with glow in the dark plankton, did some chicken fighting, and slept under the summer house to the sound of rain on the tin roof. It was pretty awesome... until sunday happened. I woke up incredibly hungover, dehydrated from the race, and got incredibly sea sick sailing back. oh, and like REALLY sunburnt. But I'm gonna say it was all worth it and really a wonderful weekend altogether. I really like it here. I've mentioned that before I think.
Alex, how on earth did you not know I had a blog? I talked about my amazing pun like ALL summer....!
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I knew you had a blog, of course, but for some reason, on accounts of hearing about the internet being slow, I figured (erroneously, it seems) that you weren't posting on it. Also, it's because I'm a bad friend.
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