25.12

Early Birds and Gala Nights

Sleep was unnecessarily optional. Some time after tossing, turning and boredom the gym opened, so I went and was surprised to be surrounded by early birds that were probably training for some hyrox 50k run while I lifted 3 kilos over my head (barely). I did feel both accomplished and mildly ridiculous.

By 8:15, Jannis was sending the first memes of the day, which marked perfect punctuation to my workout. Outside, the weather was weathering (?): clear blue sky, sunshine, and elderly women stretched out on pool loungers, doing crosswords.

Breakfast followed: pancakes (hehe), obviously overnight oats ("onos") with peanut butter, plus dried figs that were somehow the most decadent thing ever and not dry at all.

While still seated my mom called to wish us a merry christmas which turned into the perfect excuse to, well, stay seated. At 10:30 I abruptley at to disrupt our lovely conversation as it was time to head to do some yoga. If you can call it that. There was a man there further from a yogi than anyone ever and we were on the stage of the Belingo Bar (not the playa) and I lay on the mat a lot (as instructed), but Jannis lay among us like he said he would (was on my christmas list) and I got told I'm very flexible at the end.

The sun was shining which made the half over slightly more unnecessary but we quickly changed clothes and never went again. soz.

We got drinkiepoos by the pool and yet again lay. We (both) read a book and didn't move for a few hours aka until it was time to eat.

There was an irresistible assortment of fresh fish, sweet potato fries, pizza, pasta, salad, and cakes at the bufet (I managed to sample a bit of every thing), and somewhere during the day, Jannis decided that today was a good day for beer. Due to an overly full stomach I had to cancel the aqua bike workout which was gonna start to minutes past my last bite of cake.

So what I did instead you ask. I lay.

We tried some new cocktails and taste tested them on the balcony. I did also have to have a functional instant coffee as it was the day of the gala dinner and I felt 0% gala nor did I have any space to put the dinner.

An itsy bitsy tipsy I went to the sauna. (twice, to sweat out the alcohol in rotation with 2 icebaths to wake up) They do actually become easier which is fun and I went back to the room sober.

Showers later we got ready for the gala dinner (after procrastinating in bath robes - best invention ever). I put on a new ever so chique dress I hereby christen ボディコン.
ボディコン and I were largely unnoticed by the other party so ボディコン and were both ever so slightly (very) sad which confused the mentioned other party ever so slightly (a lot).

After a little storming off we got 2 proseccos (each), toasted and posed for the camera. The photographer was more of a commander in the army yelling "GIRA; BESO; DERECHO; MIRA; GIRA; IZQUIERDA; GIRAAA"

Jannis got me a rose hehe 🌹

And at 9 we chewed and chewed our way through the courses and could barely chew as quickly as we got served the dishes. (I'm gonna have to write this sentence in german as it's well funny and it just came to me: Um 9 sind wir durch die (essbaren) Gänge gerannt, danke)

Simoultaniously we also had tequila and wine and coke and water to neck and the multiple beers Jannis drank today were still slugging about in his stomach which made it impossible for him to finish the food.

The gala dinner was followed by awkward silence until 8:30am the next day.

Learning of the day: alcohol ain't great.