May 25, 2013
Originally this weekend was supposed to be just a girls weekend with myself, Erin, Keara, and Jessie but we decided to invite some of the local man folk as well. We have rented a four person cabaña right on the beach and it is only $10 per night per person, not too shabby. The weekend got started with a bit of a mess but improved tremendously as the days went on. I started off by buying the wrong bus tickets, I bought the tickets to Panama City instead of the tickets to Santa Clara, which are significantly cheaper. Then I checked my backpack while I was waiting for my friends Erin and Tyler to show up so that we could all leave the Chitre terminal together. As I was waiting for them to arrive the pavo shows up to say that the bus is leaving, and that I can either get on this bus or wait for the next one, so without thinking I tell him I'll get on the next one so that I could wait for my friends. I watch the bus leaving as Erin arrives and we greet each other like we haven't seen one another in years, though it had been just a week. We wait in line to get the tickets for the next bus and Tyler shows up exclaiming, "Wow, Melissa! You're just bringing your purse?? That's an impressive packing job!"..... OH Shit. I forgot to get my backpack off of the bus that was headed to Panama City.... whoops and then begins the freaking out. I run around like a crazy person seeing if they can call the bus driver to drop off my backpack at one of the stops along the way so I can pick it up there, the Pavo for the next bus can't get a hold of the bus driver so he tells me he'll keep trying to see if they will leave it at the halfway point in Penonome. FINALLY, after about a half hour of waiting and calling and sweating and freaking out he gets the driver on the phone and he says he'll drop it off with the terminal in Penonome and we can pick it up there on our way to Santa Clara. THANK GOD!!!! Not that it would have been the end of the world, I just would have gone naked to the beach for the entire weekend, and unshowered probably, though nothing of true value was in the bag, as far as I can remember. Once that was figured out I could begin to relax and enjoy my weekend, which we did to the max!
We spent the weekend walking to rocks, grilling hot dogs on the beach, invading private areas, running around like crazy people, jammin with artisans and Rastafarians and having an amazing time catching up on each other's crazy lives in site so far. It is moments like these that you really begin to appreciate the time you have with your support systems and get to truly realize how valuable it is to have one another so close by. I don't know if there are any pictures from this weekend, though that might be for the best, I will check the other folks to see if they have any on their cameras.
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