Oaxaca-Puerto Escondido

well eh i feel so much better today!!! After posting 2 lines here, i passed by a little shop, bought some food, went back to my little Cabana, made a quick Avocada/Tuna salad, it was great, after all it was also the first real thing aside from crackers i had eaten all day!!!
Anyway back to Oaxaca... what happened??
In total 6 girls went from Mexico City to Oaxaca... thursday late afternoon we checked in to a hotel with 3 big beds and a television!!! obviously we didn't move that much... we spend most of the evening talking about how great it would be if we could cook a 3course dinner for ourselfes...
So next day we sent out a searchparty to find a cheaper place to stay with a kitchen we could use... just 150m up the street, we found what we where looking for! so we spend pretty much the entire day, shopping for this wonderful dinner... Needles to say, it was absolutely brilliant!!!
I was " in charge" of the salad, 2 took care of the main, 1 of the dessert, and 2 of the drinks...
It worked out perfectly... we sat had some bubblewine while cooking, redwine with the dinner and some beers for chitchat afterwards... everybody was stuffed, so we decided to wait with the big birthday cake we had bought from a real pastry shop, actually it was an "in between birthdays" party, 2 of the girls had their birthday 1 week apart, and this was pretty much in between!!! Luckily we had a little akstra snack, just to go with the beers... Chapirones! fried Grashopper in chilli... not too tasty, the big ones where kinda goey... not my favorite! we sat down talking, eating, talking, drinking, talking for about 4hours, until we ran out of drinks... it was really a girls night out, ouha it must have sounded like a chickenfarm!!!
anyway, we decided to go out... check out the nightlife of Oaxaca... hehe what a fuzz it caused, when 6 european girls walks trough the door!!! but it was great fun... until we started shooting tequila and Mezcal, then things got a little bit out of control!!! But we all came home in one piece!
4 of us stayed out a little later, and when we came back around 5 we decided to eat some of the birthday cake!!! Great Idea!!! lots and lots of whipped cream and strawberries!!! perfect!
Next day, 1 of the other girls ate the rest of it for breakfast!!! charming, so charming girls can be when in a pack... saturday passed and we didn't do much, sunday passed and we did even less oh not entirely true, sunday morning we got up at 8 to have breakfast all together, since 3 of the girls went to live with a Oaxacan family for a week and to take a spanish course! But after that we did nothing, just walked around the city, it's so fantastic, such a nice vibe and very pretty! Monday morning bright'n'early we did all those things we didn't do in the weekend!!! the 3 of us left, was very busy and maneged to do all the things on our list, After lunch we met up with the spanish students and the 6 of us all together did something very, very touristy... a Trip to Monte Alban... yeah finally i got to see some famous pyramids!! it was good, i'm glad i went there!!! so i can cross pyramids of my to-do list!!! monday night, the last 2girls left and i was on my own again... not too bad! actually nice! we've been hanging out for about a week and it was great fun, but sometimes a bit difficult... when 6 girls have to agree on something! even though that also went surprisingly easy!!! yesterday morning i took a 2nd class bus (actually it was a van) to the coast!!! Up until now i've anly travelled in 1st class buses, so i didn't know what to expect, but bonus was that this drove down Highway 175 which goes straight, up and then down, where 1st class go around the mountains. taking the Van saved me 4hours of travelling time and was only half the prize... And the trip was so amazing, Between Oaxaca and Miahuatlan it was relatively flat, dry and brownish, a lot of cactus... after Miahuatlan it went up, up, up really curvy, incredible, with pine forrest and little houses, a lot of preditors hovering on the horizon... it wasn't super comfortable, but the 6 hours passed really quickly, there was a few pit-stops one in the niddle of the mountain at a little wooden shed where the driver had some lunch... bean soup and some meat, i was so hungry by then, but the meat was hanging on a metal string across the romm, like drying laundry... so i went back to the van had some crackers... Finally we got to Pochutla, a very busy town, the starting point if you wanna go to some of the more remote and less touristy beaches a long the Oaxaca coast, i was thinking about it, but that'll be next time... Got on a local bus to Puerto Escondido about 70km but it took what seemed like forever, i was the only non-mexican in the bus but the thing with people here is that, they smile and laugh and ask you questions, so it wasn't a problem. this older lady asked if i was travelling alone, and when i said i was she smiled and said that some santa was looking out for me and that this way i get the best experiences... It's so much greener and beautiful in a different way than the mountains, and there's palmtrees and bananas... it's great! At one point, i smelled the sea... and i can't help it, but it made me so relaxed, it filled with joy that i could smell the ocean... when i finally saw i realized that I've missed it since i left Sayulita... The inland is amazing, but the there's something about the ocean that i don't think i could do with out!!!
So now I'm here Puerto Escondido, the last point on my to-do list for this month in Mexico... I'm staying at place, where i have my own room with a little bathroom, and a hammock on the porch!!! I went to bed around 21o'clock... way too early! but i was tired and felling shitty, so i saw no reason to try to stay awake.... I woke up this morning around 4.30 got up, grabbed my blanket, sat in th ehammock listening to the ocean, the grashoppers, random cars passing by and looked at the moon for a while... it made me happier, than i was when i went to bed, I was actually waiting too see the sun rise, but i decided against it and went back to bed, slept another few hours... got up around nine, ready for the beach... just wanted to check my mail, now i've been online for mor than 2 hours it's midday so maybe i should get some breakfast and then find a shady place to read my book. (i'm still reading "Snow")
I feel good today... it's gonna be nice with a few days here... just hanging out... getting ready to go back to work!!!
Sunshine and aloevera lotion!!!!
*Ninon