shhhhhhhh

So we are in Goa right now and it is absolutely AMAZING. I've never seen such a dense collection of palm trees and the beach is PERFECT for body surfing/boogie boarding. Cathy's blogging about this too, so I'll just talk about our awesome night last night

We met some dudes on the beach yesterday and ended up boogie boarding for a while. they were super fun and introduced us to their giant eclectic posse (5 french people, one dutch, one south african, one british, one irish, all fun). the french dudes were really excited about the silent disco that night and although our boogie boarding buddies had vowed to make it a quiet night, we quickly got them to change their minds and we all went to the party after dinner (at midnight... when things pick up here). So we walked down the beach (you don't have to wear shoes at all here... our friends haven't worn shoes, even sandals, in 2 weeks) and we followed a sign and a dark pathway lit somewhat by neon lights on the palm trees. we got the to club and it was so weird because it was really quite. See in Goa, they have noise restrictions... the cops really cracked down because I guess it would get so loud and rowdy and all these places had to turn off the music at 10PM. so some genius came up with the idea of having a club where everyone wears headphones. There are still DJs that spin but the music goes straight to the headphones. then in another genius move, they decided to have two channels to choose from. So you can be listening to your favorite house/trance music and your dance partner can be listening to matt and kim or kanye or whatever else is on the random channel. everyone's happy. every now and then you'll take your headphones off and head people signing the words to whatever they are listening to. and then there's the "HEY WHAT STATION ARE YOU ON?" and you take a listen to their set... "OH SWEET ME TOO" (all yelling because your music in your ears in loud but really you're just in a quiet room screaming).

it is AWESOME. supposedly there is an even bigger one tomorrow night. since our flight out is at 6:55AM and it takes an hour to get to the airport, i have a feeling we won't be sleeping... seeing that we left at 4AM last night and that was an "early night."


we are staying in these awesome beach huts for about $12 a night. they are RIGHT on the beach and there's a hammock out front. i can't even describe how awesome it is here. our group of friends (who all came separately and met here) were each supposed to be here a few days, but they have been here two weeks now. they said everyone postpones their trip here. in a way i wish we could, but in a way i'm really glad we can't because we have Jay and Pam's engagement party in Delhi! (and if we did postpone, i feel like we may get stuck here forever).

i'm off to go back to the beach... i got SO burned yesterday. the sun is really intense here, but once the midday heat is gone, we're kayaing, boogie boarding, swimming, playing vollyball, going for a run/doing yoga.... :-)