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My Bermuda top 10

I know I said that if I had to leave Bermuda after one day it would have been enough, but I’m sure glad I got to stay for all the other days too.

My top 10 Bermuda takeaways:

  1. Oracle Base Tour– I know I already wrote about this, but it was truly an experience to see how it all gets done and can’t wait to see them Bring the Cup home in 2017!
  1. Bread– not only did I eat it, but I also got to watch Cody, the newly minted “domestic goddess” bake all her own breads. I left the island with some Asiago Bread and with the exception of the fact that my backpack smells like cheese it was a tasty take home treat.
  1. Private Yoga classes– I had the luxury of going to not one but two semi private classes while on the island and meeting two beautiful souls who taught the classes. My favorite was “if you’re a runner this might be a little much and you might start to feel nauseous.”
  1. Internationally bad at golf – They always say a bad day on the course is better than any day at work and I have to say between Cody and I, we must have lost upwards of 10 balls, but we had a lot of laughs and fun!
  1. Every experience with your waiter is like an SNL skit.- I often wondered if we were being punk’d.  I kept wondering do they hate us?  hate life? is it just lost in translation?
  1. Après beach– going to the beach on this beautiful island is always a treat, but who doesn’t love the post beach cheese and cracker spread
  1. Sunsets– I live in one of the best spots to watch Sunsets in the city, but dang if Bermuda hasn’t gone and one-upped that experience.
  1. Not being married to your phone– I love that I could only use my phone when there was Wi-Fi service and on an island like Bermuda that was pretty much only when I went to sleep at night. I loved that it forced me to be present in the moment and just enjoy the time I had with my friends.
  1. It’s a Small World After all–  Not once but twice while lying on the beach in Bermuda, I met friends of friends of mine back in San Francisco! Getting to meet all of Cody’s friends was great. Knowing she has made such a nice core group of friends makes me happy for her.
  1. Present Friends- I had not seen my friend Cody in over a year. She and I could go months without a message, but the second we are together it’s as if no time has passed and nothing has changed. I feel so fortunate that I met Cody all those summers ago in Michigan when the two of us along with my other dear friends Ashley and Katie spent one wild and crazy summer together that we would never forget. Many years have passed and all of our lives have changed drastically, but what has remained is a true friendship with each of them and all it takes is being together to bring all those memories (new and old) back.

I’m sure there is more that I could talk about but enjoy a few photos instead. On to the next adventure!

Church Beach, where we swam and snorkled with the parrot fish.
Church Beach, where we swam and snorkeled with the parrot fish.
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One of the few times I kept my eye on the ball. Belmont Hills Golf Club
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C is for cool calm and collected..oh and Caitlin
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Even when it wasn’t nice out, it was gorgeous
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Bermuda, where your straight hair goes to die
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See what I was talking about here??
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My guess is 6 feet under has quite the different meaning in Bermuda. Graves above ground due to volcanic rock.
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View from my last run
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One of the quotes in the gym that I liked from the late great Ali!
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Looking back on a great time had…hope to see you again soon!

 

Simply Bermudaful

If my time in Bermuda ended just after one day it would be enough. In just one day I was able to witness what a day of “thunderstorms” looks like on the island. In case you didn’t know it looks like rain for 20 minutes and then the rest of the day it’s blue skies smiling at you. If I can leave any advice for you, don’t waste a second looking at the weather app on your phone because it’s not right and you could be using those precious seconds to soak up the beauty that is Bermuda.

Doesn't get much better than this.
Doesn’t get much better than this.

My morning began with me heading out for a run in those said Thunderstorms. I quickly learned the Bermudian custom of honking not to tell you to get your running butt off the road, but to simply say hello. I also learned that there are hills in Bermuda. I guess I just thought it was this flat island and my six-mile run would be a cinch. It wasn’t and when I came back I looked as if I had just jumped in the ocean. Humidity + Hills did not equal my friend.IMG_6964

I was lucky enough to get a personal tour of the Oracle Base and meet some of the sailors and shore crew. I was amazed to see the amount of work that goes into sailing those boats and not only just from the sailors. I’m sure by the time my tour was over, my tour guide had had enough of my little-to-no-experience-with-sailing questions, but he took them all in stride and I learned a lot.

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Chaser boats..check out those seats!

I spent the rest of the glorious afternoon tooling around all the different bays and coves on the boat. I kept saying how I couldn’t believe how beautiful and blue the water was. I almost didn’t believe my friends when they told me, “just wait it gets better”, but it does. When we anchored at a small cove I jumped in and was quite shocked it was salt water, not some pristine pool. After the initial shock and we were out there for a while whether we were snorkeling by a reef or just floating on a noodle, I forgot again and was only reminded when I’d get a friendly salty slap to the face.

checking out the coral reef
checking out the coral reef

Just when I thought the day couldn’t get better, I got to spend a night out…on the patio that is, enjoying a home cooked meal, some fantastic company and of course the mating sound

rainbow in the clouds at dinner
rainbow in the clouds at dinner

s of the little tree frogs:)

Bermuda First Day – A+

 

 

 

smallest drawbridge ever
smallest drawbridge ever