Day Two Hundred and Thirty Five

I woke up on Sunday morning thinking that it was Monday morning and my feelings were a mixture of excitement to get home and disappointment that I had stepped into my last week of my holiday. It wasn't until much later when I was drinking tea on the balcony and watching the ships pass that I realized it was Sunday - yes! a few more days to chill out.

Because the weather was really great most of the morning and early afternoon was spent lounging next to the pool soaking up as much sun as possible. I'm a red head as most of you know, so we usually tend to avoid the sun like the plague because it has the same effect as it does on vampires - it burns us, it does.
But this holiday I've decided to say Screw Them All and this has entitled me to a freedom of not caring what anyone thinks when it comes to what I wear and what I do and it has entitled me to breaking out of my cocoon and do things I would never usually do. 

A part of this holiday has been wanting to find the girl I lost, the one who use to trust and have confidence, the one who use to be sexy and attract. Let's hope I'm half way to finding her, though I still believe it will take me a few more days to break free completely.

As you can see in the pic above, we had to go to the shops for more supplies and on the way we decided to do good by going to KFC and buying a homeless lady a meal to which we also gave her money. 
I know a lot of people see people like me feeding the homeless on the sidewalk and think "I wish they wouldn't do that, all they're doing is encouraging them to stay and beg." But honestly, I can't turn my back on someone who is less fortunate than me. At any moment that person could be me and I would like someone to show me a kindness. 

People always tell me to stop giving money to beggars, but I remember this one story:

God tests this very selfish man by disguising himself as a beggar and God asks this man for help. The man walks away laughing and bragging. Later the man approaches God and asks Him for help to which God replies, "But my son, when I wanted help you turned your back on me. You chose to not help me. I am within everyone and I can be anyone at any time, I am even within those who have nothing left to give..."

There is obviously more to that story but you get my drift. 

Much later that night, we went downstairs and played Bingo because Richard is usually very lucky and he always wins while I sit watching and losing. 
This time however, I won my first game of Bingo! It was such an epic feeling shouting 'Bingo' and handing my card in. I won a meal voucher to Spur which was perfect because we still needed to eat. 
We walked to the nearest hotel and went for dinner supplied to us by the holiday and enjoyed every last bite.

Thinking about this now as I type this, I've just realized that we gave and we received - how amazing is that!!

From there we went and played games, games, games (I'm trying to boost my ticket count 'cause I saw this huge bear I want to get!) and then we walked back to the hotel. 

Pretty simple day filled with plenty of lessons.

This is how big snails are in DBN

We're on a walk, yo!

Playing games!

Spot the Frog