La vida

The last couple of days were a bit slower and I’ve had more time to putter around my apartment. On Sunday, I spent the afternoon at the Hilton’s beach with my buddy, her sister, and my friends from Turkey. We stayed for the sunset, then met up with a colleague for dinner. We ate our meal at Rif Fort, an old fort right on the water that has been turned into a shopping complex. It was lovely.




Yesterday, we went into Punda. Wilemstaad, the capital city of Curaçao and the Netherlands Antilles, is bisected by water. One side is called Punda, and the other side is known as Otrabanda (literally, “the other side”). In Punda, we went to the movies to see Superman Returns. I was happy to know that the people of Curaçao and Hawaii share a couple of hot weather pastimes: going to the beach and the movie theater! There’s nothing like sitting in air conditioning on a sweltering day! After the movie, we went shopping and I bought some things for my apartment. The most exciting purchase was a brilliantly colored hammock that I can’t wait to hang. Then we sat on the waterfront drinking frozen lemonades. This is a hard life, I tell you.