not ready to leave
May. 8th, 2009 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dichroicI felt a little guilty about going to a Club Med, fer gossakes, giant multi-national Euro-corporation that it is, instead of having a holiday in which I'd actually get to see a country. But this has been wonderful, if a little less relaxing and more bruising than anticipated (courtesy of golf lesson (ouch, yuck, clearly not my sport), archery (I can't imagine I'll ever be great but it was fun and I'd like to play around with it more), kayaking (I've done a bit of that before), sailing (easier than expected), ocean swimming, aquafit class (silly but at least you get to be in the pool), climbing (less fun without proper shoes), and flying trapeze (ouch, scary, and I want to do more. Oh, and juggling lessons.
Also, they have monkeys and giant, though we've never gotten any good photos.
And the food is excellent, orders of magnitude better than our disappointing cruise experience a few years ago. The people here are really nice too, clearly the sort who really do enjoy meeting new people. One Taiwanese woman, one of the circus performers (trapeze, silks, juggling) has a brother who lives only 1-2 km from us and also works in the same office park, which is unusual since it's a 40-minute drive from one to the other.
I am not looking forward to the next three days, which feature: Sat: going home, which means leaving the resort at 8:30AM and arriving home around 11PM, same time zone - not that far but flights aren't conveniently timed); Sun: Ted off the the Netherland for nearly 3 weeks; Mon: back to work. But I do have two things to look forward to: the last Percy Jackson book is not only out but available for Kindle (the series haven't been in e-book format til now) ad the second Erec Rex book (when I bought the first I didn't realize it was a series and that books 2 and 3 are out.) So at least I have those two. I'd buy them for the trip home, but I have several other things to read and anyway for some reason I can't buy Kindle books nor iPod apps here in Malaysia though I can in Taiwan (at least I hope I still can, she said nervously).
Anyway, I think lunch is digested now. Time to go sailing one last time.
Also, they have monkeys and giant, though we've never gotten any good photos.
And the food is excellent, orders of magnitude better than our disappointing cruise experience a few years ago. The people here are really nice too, clearly the sort who really do enjoy meeting new people. One Taiwanese woman, one of the circus performers (trapeze, silks, juggling) has a brother who lives only 1-2 km from us and also works in the same office park, which is unusual since it's a 40-minute drive from one to the other.
I am not looking forward to the next three days, which feature: Sat: going home, which means leaving the resort at 8:30AM and arriving home around 11PM, same time zone - not that far but flights aren't conveniently timed); Sun: Ted off the the Netherland for nearly 3 weeks; Mon: back to work. But I do have two things to look forward to: the last Percy Jackson book is not only out but available for Kindle (the series haven't been in e-book format til now) ad the second Erec Rex book (when I bought the first I didn't realize it was a series and that books 2 and 3 are out.) So at least I have those two. I'd buy them for the trip home, but I have several other things to read and anyway for some reason I can't buy Kindle books nor iPod apps here in Malaysia though I can in Taiwan (at least I hope I still can, she said nervously).
Anyway, I think lunch is digested now. Time to go sailing one last time.
