10 hours ago
Friday, August 7, 2009
Twins?
No... I am not having babies.
But, today as I walked past a rasta fruit stand in town I stopped to try a Quenepa. They are small fruits that I have seen all over but never tried. I asked the rasta man what they tasted like and he said "go on a try one chile". So I picked one off the bushel. I couldn't figure out how to eat it, apparently you are supposed to bite the skin to break it open then the pulp covered seed slides right out and you suck the pulp off the seed and spit the rest out. As I did this in front of the old rasta man and some island ladies lounging under the palm trees they asked "you like?" to which I replied, "it tastes like grass." They all cracked up laughing and the rasta man said he would hand pick my perfect quenepa. So he picked up the bushel and chose my new one. I bit into it and the old rasta man said "IT'S TWINS!!!" I said "What?!" and sure enough, there were two seeds in the pod. He said that means if I get preggo I will have twins. Great. I said "I better be careful then!!!" They all had a good laugh with me today. My Dad is a twin and my Mom always said that I would have twins because it skips a generation. I told the rasta that and he said "da fruit nevah lie!"
Well, tomorrow I work a double, hopefully I will make some money. Sunday I am going to Jost Van Dyke and the Willy T with my friends from work. It's gonna be awesome! I will post pics when I get back.
That's the Willy T. The floating bar/restaurant.
And this is the Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke. They call it that because there is no dock here, you have to swim from your boat to the beach... hence the soggy dollars.
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sigh...wish i was there...
ReplyDeleteglad you are rockin it in the islands! :)
Yea !! That looks like so much fun !! Powerarm thingy to ya sis. I mean "Mon"
ReplyDeleteLet's just say that "twin" meant you were going to work a double and leave it at that. I told your Dad about this story and the other one... he liked the other one better. Power to the people with backpacks!
ReplyDeleteHere in San Carlos there's a Soggy Peso bar on the beach, probably for the same reason.
ReplyDeleteThat water looks so incredible. What a gorgeous place!
I was hoping for an entirely different set of twins. :(
ReplyDeleteG&K what kind of twins were you hoping for? She knows we go by the old fishing rule, "you catch it you clean it."
ReplyDeleteI miss swimming from the boat to the beach for drinks... too cold here in foggy Channel Islands Harbor to even wear shorts right now!
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