Christmas holidays at the beach are so underrated – I don’t understand why more people don’t do it! It’s basically dead here, which is kind of nice not having mass amounts of tourists, just a bit baffling, I s’pose. Anyway, the beach is lovely as usual, and the weather is perfect. The condo we’re staying in has a massive balcony, so we’ve spent a large amount of time just chilling out there and reading or whatever. Lovely!
When I was in Belfast, I kind of fell in love with this candy bar called a Kinder Bueno. This is more significant than you’d think, because I dislike chocolate, but for some reason I adore Buenos. Anyway, I meant to bring a stock back with me, because for whatever reason you can’t get them in the US, but it didn’t work out for whatever reason (not that I would have had room in my luggage anyway, ha). BUT! We went to the market to get milk and such here the other day, and I randomly found Kinder Buenos (!), so that was a super awesome bonus! Huzzah! I’ll have to stock up on the way out.
And of course, a post about Mexico from me wouldn’t be complete without the obligatory sunset photo.
We’ll head back home tomorrow afternoon, so we’ve got another day or so here. I think we may rent ATV’s and explore the desert/beach this afternoon. Haha, we used to rent them all the time down here, but then we sort of got stranded on a mountain once, and had to walk back in the dead of summer (read: HOT), and I don’t think I’ve actually been on one here since. Actually, that was quite a long time ago…. Anyway, should be good fun either way. I’m off to enjoy some sun (to make up for the lack of it this past year) – farewell!
I’m really excited about having proper burritos back in my life. Oh Chipotle, how I “love” thee! Among other things, of course. I quite enjoyed my reunion with Digby (my car), the “luxury” of having a dryer, a dishwasher, and not having to wear 8 layers to walk outside. 73degrees (23c) in December? I approve.
Anyway, I adjusted to the time change pretty well. I just woke up rather early for a few days, which turned out to be kind of cool, because I got to see the sunrise. Arizona sunrises are amazing, if I may say so myself.
Even though the grass is dead. Still a pretty view, haha. ALSO, while I’m not enjoying the side effect of mass amounts of cat hair on my clothing, it’s nice to have fluffy critters (and Spock and Sebastian, of course) around! Angel was kind of irritated at first, but now she’s pretty much glued to me… She even let me wrap her in Christmas lights the other day (aweee). Granted, she was a lot happier when I unwrapped her – adorable, eh?
We’re heading to Mexico tomorrow for a few days for a Christmas holiday type thing, so that should be exciting! I’ll try to post from there, as it’s always lovelyyyy!
We left Belfast at the ridiculously early 6am this morning, and Sarah drove me down to Dublin where I flew out. One of my bags was apparently 5kg overweight, which resulted in me having to throw away three books (THROW AWAY. I nearly cried. Someone should really like, start a charity shop in an airport or something.), some cards, and a pair of shoes. Lame! Ah well, probably didn’t need them anyway – take THAT Charles Dickens.
So, my last day in Belfast, yesterday, entailed a photo adventure, a fry (which was way too much food, but equally delicious), and Starbucks… it was pretty fitting, if I may say so myself.
Christmas in Belfast is absolutely beautiful (in all its nearly-overly-lit-glory)! For the past few weeks, in front of City Hall, there’s been a Continental Christmas Market, with loads of Christmassy/random things! Actually, I was working there for the last couple of weeks, decorating ceramic piggy banks and ornaments, which was rather interesting. Anyway, City Hall itself was also covered in lights as you can see, and complemented with a lovely large tree [/rhyme]!
Oooh, and Victoria Square, which is basically this big posh shopping mall type place. So many lights! And a massive tree! There’s this observation deck bubble thing at the top, where you can see most of the city while also spying on people below. Lovely, to say the least.
Oookay, I have been up since 5am Belfast time… which means it’s been too long (I don’t even want to do that math, ha), so I’m pretty excited about bed!! Our house is Christmassy and warm and decorated and animal filled.
