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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Summer Beckons

Ken and I decided to leave our mundane lives behind for a very short one and half-day getaway to Nago, which is about 70 km north of where we stay.

the weather was good, the hotel was surprisingly comfortable and the beaches offered some much-needed respite from his work and my thesis-churning. all it took was 35 hours away from the humdrum and we were back to where/who we were six years ago.

we packed a barbeque set and two camping chairs, stocked up on the meat and drinks and returned to the same island we camped at in 2007. while we had company on our private beach the form of a father and three-sons team along the other end of the shore, it turned out to be a good thing because their lamp provided just enough illumination for us when our own bonfire died out.

after dinner we sat on the shore and competed to see who could spot the most number of shooting stars.
i saw one, and he claimed he saw two stars colliding.

the next day we played with fishes in the hotel's stretch of beach and relaxed with a sauna and dip in the hot bath. ken had his very first facial while i waited with a copy of the newspaper.

on our way home we managed to catch the sunset.
someday all short trips would be made this way.

The view from our hotel room:


The one with Ken looking like Sha Wujing in Journey to the West:


The lighthouse at Cape Zampa:
Sunset from Zampa:


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