Labor Day Weekend...Choroni

Well I am finally getting up to date on all of my photos and blogging.  This past weekend was a long weekend because we were celebrating labor day here in Venezuela.  I went with five girlfriends from school to a beach town called Choroni.  While I had been there in October it is always fun to go with locals so that they can show you the ropes and all of the great places.  We left on Thursday right after school.  The trip should have taken us around 4 to 4 and a half hours , however, since traffic in Caracas is soooo bad and unpredictable it took us over an hour to get to the highway.  We made it in about 5 and a half hours to a beautiful posada that was off the beaten path which we found out later would be great since the town would soon be inundated with people ready to celebrate the long weekend.  We decided to heat up some food that night at the posadas kitchen and head to bed kind of early.  The next morning we woke up eat a wonderful breakfast and headed to the largest local beach, which is connected to the town.  We headed all the way to the end of the beach and stay away from the crowds.  We spent the entire day there and even ran into some friends from the international school in Valencia.  We headed back cleaned up and headed to dinner at a place called Mango's.  On the way we decided to stop and get ice for our cooler, however, when we all got back in the car we realized that not all of the lights in the car would turn off.  We proceeded to try and re-close every door but nothing seemed to work.  We decided to head to the restaurant and try and sort it out there.  We got there and still could not figure it out so we decided that we were so hungry that we would disconnect the battery and head in to eat.  The food was great and we had almost the whole restaurant to ourselves which was great.  We were all tired from the beach so we reconnected the battery and headed back to the posada.  We continued to have to disconnect the battery for almost the rest of the trip.  The next morning we woke up and eat another delicious breakfast and then proceeded to get ready to head to another beach.  Most of the beach around require a short but rough boat ride and since we were accompanied by a friend who is 7 months pregnant so we could not take a boat.  So our friend who practically lived in this town for several years told us about a beach we could hike to and it would be about a 15 minute hike.  We decided we would take a cooler and some umbrellas for the day.  Little did we know it would take over an hour hiking to get to this amazing beach.  The beach only had about six other people on it through out the day.  Needless to say we decided to drink and eat everything in the cooler but it was still quite a trek back.  From there we proceeded back to the place where we got ice the night before to get bottles of water and gatorade and it wasn't until then that we realized a switch had gotten flipped and that is why the lights were on that whole time.  From there we went back and showered and ate the most amazing meal I have had in Venezuela.  We had a six course prix fixed meal at a private house that is only open on Saturdays.  My only regret is that I did not take photos of each course.  Over all it was such a great weekend with a great group of friends.  

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