Leaf_Longbottom’s BodyBlog

So I just came back from a holiday in Cuba with the family.  The wife found a really good deal online on a sell off so it came up very quickly and we just took off.  Now, I’ve been to Hawaii and Mexico several times, but when we stepped off the plane in Santa Clara is was this wall of humidity that floored us all.  Man it was hot and sticky, and from where Im from it is soooo dry.  I just couldnt get over the humidity.  It was a 90 minute bus ride to our hotel that went through some really interesting towns.  I couldnt imagine living the way the Cubans do.  We’d pass by in this nice air conditioned bus as the houses are shanty town little buildings with people sitting in their doorway watching the busses go by on the way to the resorts.  I couldnt look them in the eye as we went bye…I mean heres us drinking and eating all we can eat when there living under a roof that looks like its going to fall in on them at the slightest breeze.  And the cattle and dogs all look sickly with their hips protruding out….but still they wave at us like were celebreties or something…I dunno…I just felt guilt.

So we arrived at our resort which was HUGE and sprawling,  I got lost walking around it so many times.  Everything was exceptionally clean and nice.  Very modern and its true what the say, the people are super nice.  The beaches were tops in my list as well ….sugar white powder sand that you could walk out hundreds of feet without one rock or piece of seaweed.  There were jellyfish however about the size of small plates and some days were worse than others, that was the only bad thing.  No one in my family got sick but I would rate the food about 6.5 out of 10.  I ate a lot of eggs and fish.  There was no pineapple juice and no jam for your toast…it was weird, some days they’d have some things, and then some days they wouldnt…most things were heavily salted too.  Combine that with all the malibu rum and orange juice and you swell.

The resort did have a gym that was better equipped than anything I went to in Mexico but was still limited.  I worked out 4 out of 7 days (pretty good considering 2 days lost to travel).  All the plates were in Kilos because Im Canadian thats no problem, but if you were a American (and allowed to be there) you’d have a tough time figuring your weights out.

Now its back to the grind and to hunker in for those dark cold Canadian winters….good to be home.  

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