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Spanish
En esta Semana Santa tuvimos la oportunidad de planificar un viaje a la playa para compartir en familia pues un primo regresó después de 4 años fuera del país.
Muchos teníamos años sin ir a la playa así que todos decidimos apuntarnos en esta aventura, estuvimos 3 días seguidos planificando la comida, la bebida, recolectando el dinero y haciendo todos los ajustes pertinentes para ir tranquilos solo a disfrutar del día.
No es muy frecuente que viajemos en Semana Santa ya que suele ser un poco peligroso pues hay mucha gente ebria al volante en las calles y en mi familia acostumbramos a pasar estos días en casa, se colocan piscinas a los más pequeños y pasamos tardes en familia.
Pero esta vez fue la excepción y que bueno porque la pasamos excelente.
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English
This Easter we had the opportunity to plan a trip to the beach to share with the family because a cousin returned after 4 years out of the country.
Many of us had been years without going to the beach so we all decided to sign up for this adventure, we spent 3 days in a row planning food, drinks, collecting money and making all the necessary adjustments to go quietly just to enjoy the day.
It is not very often that we travel at Easter because it is usually a bit dangerous as there are many people drunk at the wheel on the streets and in my family we usually spend these days at home, pools are placed for the little ones and we spend evenings with the family.
But this time was the exception and good thing because we had an excellent time.
A las 4:30 a.m me levanté para bañarme, preparar mi bolso y el desayuno.
Mi novio también se levantó a esa hora para ayudarme a dejarle suficiente comida y agua a Kira ya que no podíamos llevarla con nosotros porque íbamos casi 30 personas en la parte de atrás de un camión y no quedaba espacio suficiente para llevarla.
Cuando tuvimos todo listo salimos afuera de la casa al punto de encuentro a esperar al resto de la familia que se iba con nosotros.
Como siempre, hay personas que se atrasan y en mi familia siempre es el mismo grupo de personas, nos retrasamos casi una hora esperandolos. Teníamos planificado salir a las 6:00 a.m para estar a eso de las 7:30 a.m en la playa y terminamos saliendo de casa casi a las 7:00 a.m.
Íbamos como ''sardinas en lata'' todos apretados, con los bolsos encima, unos cargaban con los recipientes de comida, en fin, eramos demasiado. Aparte también iban 3 carros.
El viaje se nos hizo eterno, cuando pensábamos que estábamos cerca nos decían ''aún falta carretera''. Yo quería llegar y sentarme pues ya no sentía las piernas por estar 1 hora y 40 minutos de pie.
At 4:30 a.m. I got up to take a bath, prepare my bag and breakfast.
My boyfriend also got up at that time to help me leave enough food and water for Kira since we could not take her with us because we were almost 30 people in the back of a truck and there was not enough space to carry her.
When we had everything ready we went outside the house to the meeting point to wait for the rest of the family that was leaving with us.
As always, there are people who are late and in my family it is always the same group of people, we were almost an hour late waiting for them. We had planned to leave at 6:00 a.m. to be at the beach around 7:30 a.m. and we ended up leaving the house at almost 7:00 a.m. We were like "sardines".
We were like ''sardines in a can'', all cramped together, with our bags on top of us, some carrying food containers, in short, there were too many of us. There were also 3 cars.
The trip took forever, when we thought we were close they told us ''there was still a long way to go''. I wanted to get there and sit down because I could no longer feel my legs for being on my feet for 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Después de mucho rodar en la carretera, por fin, veíamos playa, pero aún no llegábamos a nuestro destino.
Minutos después llegamos. Los hombres se bajaron del camión para abrir el portón ya que la playa era privada.
Cuando estacionamos, comenzamos a bajar y los niños salieron corriendo y entraron de una vez en la playa, casi ninguno había visitado una playa y estaban demasiado emocionados.
Bajamos las cosas y comenzamos a tomar lugares bajo la sombra. Yo aproveché y tomé algunas fotos del lugar ya que la hora era perfecta, me tomé fotos con algunos familiares y por supuesto con mi novio.
Después de desayunar recorrimos el lugar y nos dimos cuenta de que habían varios peces muertos en la orilla y otros flotando en la playa, mi familia se encargó de sacarlos y amontonarlos en la basura porque a los niños les daba miedo.
Me tomé unas cervezas y después de un rato decidí entrar al agua. De esto no tomé fotos porque me dió miedo meter mi teléfono al agua y fue una buena decisión ya que en la arena habían muchos corales y me caí varias veces y hasta me corté los pies.
After a lot of riding on the road, we finally saw the beach, but we still hadn't reached our destination.
Minutes later we arrived. The men got out of the truck to open the gate since the beach was private.
When we parked, we started to get out and the kids ran out and ran onto the beach, almost none of them had ever visited a beach before and they were too excited.
We put the stuff down and started taking spots under the shade. I took advantage and took some pictures of the place since the time was perfect, I took pictures with some family members and of course with my boyfriend.
After breakfast we walked around the place and noticed that there were several dead fish on the shore and others floating on the beach, my family took care of taking them out and piling them in the trash because the kids were scared of them.
I had a few beers and after a while I decided to go into the water. I didn't take pictures of this because I was afraid to put my phone in the water and it was a good decision since there was a lot of coral in the sand and I fell several times and even cut my feet.
Me senté con mis primas y sus novios a hablar y tomar un rato y vimos que en una casa vecina a la que estábamos habían perritos y un mono y quisimos ir a verlos. El dueño de estos animalitos comenzó a platicar con nosotros acerca de la vida en ese pueblo y las cosas que solían practicar antes.
Nos dijo el nombre del monita ''Pancha''. A mi me dió miedo acercarme ya que estaba un poco estresada y agresiva. Me aterraba que me mordiera así que mantuve distancia.
El cachorro nos encantó y estuvimos bastante rato acariciándolo y tomándonos fotos con el.
Mas tarde me acerqué a hablar con los dueños del lugar en el que estábamos y me ofrecieron un paseo en lancha, se suponía que solo iría mi grupo pero, cuando mi familia vio que nos estábamos montando salieron corriendo a subirse también.
Ya me he subido en lanchas pero siempre me aterran, el agua me da mucho miedo porque no se nadar (realmente hay muchas cosas que me asustan) y en esta ocasión ni siquiera nos colocaron salvavidas. Iba todo el viaje casi llorando de los nervios hasta que vi que volvíamos y me comencé a calmar.
Aunque me asusté me gusta hacer actividades que me reten a superar mis miedos porque no me agrada que el miedo me domine.
I sat down with my cousins and their boyfriends to talk and drink for a while and we saw that in a house next to the one we were in there were puppies and a monkey and we wanted to go and see them. The owner of these little animals started talking to us about life in that village and the things they used to practice before.
He told us the name of the monkey ''Pancha''. I was afraid to approach her as she was a bit stressed and aggressive. I was terrified she would bite me so I kept my distance.
We loved the puppy and we spent a lot of time petting him and taking pictures with him.
Later I went over to talk to the owners of the place we were at and they offered me a boat ride, it was supposed to be just my group but when my family saw that we were riding they ran out to get in too.
I have been on boats before but they always terrify me, the water scares me a lot because I don't know how to swim (actually there are many things that scare me) and this time they didn't even put life jackets on us. The whole trip I was almost crying from nerves until I saw that we were coming back and I started to calm down.
Even though I got scared I like to do activities that challenge me to overcome my fears because I don't like to be dominated by fear.
Como a las 3:00 p.m estuvo listo el almuerzo, esto tardó bastante porque tuvieron que freír casi 50 pescados, cocinar 20 kg de yuca y preparar toda la ensalada.
Me senté con mi novio en una lancha que estaba a la orilla y ahí comimos.
Después de almorzar tenía bastante sueño, así que extendimos una toalla en la arena y nos acostamos un rato. Había bastante brisa en el lugar y eso me dió mas sueño, me quedé dormida como 30 minutos.
Al despertarme decidí buscar conchas en la orilla y conseguí varias muy bonitas para ponerlas en mi casa como decoración.
Nos dimos otro corto baño en el agua y minutos después nos llamaron para recoger todo porque era momento de irnos. Una camioneta se había sumado al viaje así que varias personas decidieron irse en ella y en el camión teníamos más espacio. Pero, esta camioneta generó problemas en el viaje de regreso, el motor se recalentó y tuvimos que remolcarla de regreso, esto fue difícil porque ambos vehículos iban muy pesados y las cuerdas con las que amarraron la camioneta eran muy finas y se reventaban.
Por este motivo el viaje se alargó casi media hora más. Gracias a Dios logramos llegar, yo con una insolación bien grave y mucho dolor en los pies por las cortadas, pero, felices de haber disfrutado un día diferente en familia.
Espero que ustedes también hayan disfrutado de una linda semana santa.
¡Gracias por leer! Hasta la Próxima.
At about 3:00 p.m. lunch was ready, which took a long time because they had to fry almost 50 fish, cook 20 kg of yucca and prepare all the salad.
I sat with my boyfriend in a boat that was on the shore and there we ate.
After lunch I was pretty sleepy, so we spread out a towel on the sand and lay down for a while. There was quite a breeze in the place and that made me sleepy, I fell asleep for about 30 minutes.
When I woke up I decided to look for shells on the shore and got some nice ones to put in my house as decoration.
We had another short swim in the water and a few minutes later we were called to pick up everything because it was time to leave. A van had joined the trip so several people decided to go in it and we had more room in the truck. But, this van generated problems on the return trip, the engine overheated and we had to tow it back, this was difficult because both vehicles were very heavy and the ropes with which they tied the van were very thin and burst.
For this reason the trip took almost half an hour longer. Thank God we made it, I had a very bad sunstroke and my feet were very sore from the cuts, but we were happy to have enjoyed a different day with our family.
I hope you also enjoyed a nice Easter week.
Thanks for reading! See you next time.
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