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Good Company

Part of the reason our holiday was so much fun this year was because of the great people we met at our hotel.

We met up with Lily and John on the morning of our tour to Trinidad, though we really did not get to know them until later, meeting up for drinks in the hotel lobby one evening before dinner. Although a bit older than us they are both very young-thinking people and turned out to be very good company for both of us. One evening we discovered we had made reservations at the seafood restaurant for the same seating and had dinner together. Redman made the welcome discovery that John was a fellow member of an organization he has just joined, and Lily and I discovered some common ground on our personal beliefs as well. John is a Buddhist, a blogger and guy with some very interesting opinions about the world. Lily is a beautiful person in all aspects and a fascinating person to talk to.

Lily had sort of ?adopted? a very lovely girl named Heidi, one of the members of the hotel animation staff. Heidi was very visible in the evening?s entertainment because she is a singer. For this reason she seemed to attract a lot of unwanted attention from some of the male guests, and Lily made it her mission to protect her. I think Lily would have liked to have taken Heidi home with her at the end of her stay! We got to know her a little too as a result of this friendship and she is a very sweet girl, indeed. She called John her cuddly little bear. (He is kind of a cuddly little bear. And he didn?t seem to mind the attention, either!)

Redman and I always seem to attract single guys on these holidays; I think it?s because ?we?re so cool?. At least I don?t mind a risqu? joke and I get along well with most men anyway. (Even if I do roll my eyes at MAXIM magazine most of the time.) Two younger guys we hooked up with this trip were Marino and Rob, who I?ve already mentioned. Marino was into his own thing and travelling around with a rental car a lot of the time, so we didn?t see that much of him. But we did get talking about music: he wanted to know what was on our iPods. I told him: David Byrne, Dead Can Dance, Deep Forest, Govinder?s Atom Heart Madras, Kula Shaker? and various others. He thought that was pretty cool: ?Someone who listens to Dead Can Dance is someone I?d like to hang out with!? He looked through Redman?s playlist and came back gasping a half hour later: ?I have just one word: Outstanding!? Well, Redman does have some great taste in music, and a really eclectic playlist.

Rob is the guy who got us the lobsters. A bit of a lovable dirtbag: not as bad a boy as he?d like to make out he is, but definitely a wheeler dealer who?s not afraid to go after what he wants. He was certainly chatting up the ladies while he was there, but seemed to take a particular liking to a young lady named Addis who was on the hotel Guest Relations staff. Addis joined us for drinks several evenings and had dinner with Rob, John and Lily on their 22nd wedding anniversary dinner.

The last day there he told our party on the beach that he was going for a dive off what was left of the dock. Once with his trunks on, later, without. I don?t know if he actually offended anyone (you couldn?t really see anything at that distance anyhow and the sun was behind him) but we were having such a great time, who cares? Anyway, it was far less offensive than an old fat guy in a Speedo, believe me!

We all pretty much sat together on the flight home (John came home alone, as Lily stayed on for another week, as did Marino.) Once we were off the plane Rob somehow managed to convince some cute young airport staffer to give us all a ride on her golf cart. All except Redman who decided he needed to walk off his airsickness. It was nice not to have to walk all the way to the customs hall! I?d certainly never think of asking someone to do that, but, well, some guys just know how to get things done. And she didn?t seem to mind much either.

While I am a person who is used to - and enjoys - spending a lot of time alone and Redman enjoy each other?s company, meeting some fun people certainly does make the week go by much more pleasantly.

Filed under Cuba 2006, Mar 7, 2006
 

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