Magical New Year 2007!

A midnight swimming trip in the Caribean, deserted beach, snorkling, big fire, sun, silence, fresh fish, coconuts directly from the palmtrees, yoga, cows, scorpio in our shower...Yes, this New Year's eve was magical. We decided to take three days off and went to a nearby place called Campamento which is quite near Trujillo. Trujillo is full of Garifuna people, African decendents. It is a very easygoing place with delicious food and funny music called punta. The locals dance this music moving wildly their hips in circular movements, then pumbing their buttocks and doing all sorts of movements. We WILL learn it this year, we are already practising!

Campamento is a wellkept place owned by a local family. The place has small cabins and it's about 15 minutes drive from Trujillo. Again, there were hardly anyone, so we basically had the beach for ourselves. Perfect place for our plan to have small honeymoons here and there. The nights were fantastic, moon was so bright that it almost hurted our eyes and the water was like milk. During the day we snorkled (amazing underwater world!), read, did yoga, played with the family's dogs, had long conversations, walked to a nearby orphanage. We also enjoyed the silence as in Tocoa that is a luxury with all the reggeaton that's going on.

Only disturbance were the cows which escaped from their field and entered the garden creating a chaotic moment with all of us, including the dogs, running in the darkness shouting and trying to stop them going to the cabins. For some reason, honduran scorpios like us quite much so one of them decided to pay us a visit. Again, Manu was very brave watching the beast while he sent Pauliina to look for help. However, even the scorpio didn´t manage to brake the magic of the place.

So, dearest family and friends, thank you for all the beautiful moments in the year 2006 and hope you will have a year 2007 full of harmony and care. MUACK y BESITOS!