Leigh Nash and her distinct vocal cords are everwhere! Fauxliage is the product of Miss Nash and the Canadian new age/electronica music group Delerium. If you like Leigh Nash as well as Delerium, then you'll most likely dig what they can do together. Cos I do!
Fauxliage
Album: Fauxliage (2007)
Song: Let It Go
Our Belizian excursion of choice was to go snorkeling in the waters that is home to the world's second largest/longest barrier reef. It sounded fun and exciting enough. We would go snorkel and see some cool stuff and then they would drop us off at this Sun Beach Resort for a few hours to just soak in the sun and relax. According to the cruise brochure, the resort sounded pretty spectacular with white sand beaches. Upon arrival, I made a sad face. The water didn't look particularly inviting and judging from the reaction of the people who actually went into the water, it was not good. You could see dark stuff in the water. I have no idea what it was. The other swimmers said the ocean floor felt slimy and gross. EEEWWWW! The place was not fancy at all. Not that fancy it what I wanted, but I wanted something remotely nice. It was just that. Remote and somewhat run down looking. The sand was unremarkable. It wasn't as super soft as I was hoping and dead plant like leaves were strewn around everywhere. Instead of beaching ourselves in the sand, we took over the hammock area and just swung around.
As for the snorkeling part. The fishies weren't very tropical or crazy looking. It was like swimming in a ginormous mundane and boring fish tank. Snorkeling in Maui was mos def a lot better. Here, they took us on a 30 minute boat ride to the middle of the ocean. In Maui, I merely snorkeled off the shore of the beach and was able to see the most beautiful and colorful marine life! I even saw and swam along with this gigantic sea turtle at one point. The highlight of my trip! The most that we saw here was this brightly colored baby sting ray and this big conch shell. Even though it wasn't visually stimulating, it was incredibly fun being able to swim around in the middle of the ocean. I felt so free. After ten minutes in the water, I stripped off my life vest and just started swimming around. One of the best feelings ever! I'm a pretty confident swimmer so I had no fear of being in the deep waters of nowhere. The water was amazingly clear and our tour folks were very friendly and extremely eager to show us the nooks and cranny's of the reef. I was having such a grand time swimming that I made it a point to be the last person to get back onto the boat. I wanted to keep on swimming! So I have a bit of a mixed reaction to this Sun Beach Resort and Snorkel shore excursion.
Our excursion, which took us to a remote island, lasted a bit longer than we had hoped and one hour before the ship was to leave, the bf and I hopped onto a water taxi and taxied off towards the main city. We ran around as quickly as we could to collect the standard gifts and rushed back to our boat. Getting stranded is not an option. The place was unbelizable! Or not! I wish that I could tell you what Belize City is really like. But I can't. All I can say is that the drop-off area for our cruiser has developed into yet another touristy hot spot full of nothing but offerings tainted with junky souvy's and the like. And I know I have helped to attribute to this awful cause because I wanted to go on this splenda equal sweet-n-low trip and visit these exotica locations. Well, so did millions of other people. So the capitol of Belize jumped at the chance to capitalize on that. Kiosk after kiosk of people selling stuff you could buy anywhere. I was just a bit disappointed. You better Belize it.
1927 Fairview St
Houston, TX 77019
I love reading any and all of the Houston area magazines. A few of them have mentioned Te House of Tea and I've been meaning to stop by there for some time but life has been so mad busy that there's just no time to lounge around and relax and just zen out with some fine conversation. My co-worker neighbor buddy whom I distract on a daily basis mentioned that she went to this tango thing on Fridays at that very same teahouse. How cool is that? Teahouse by day. Tango by night. Well, only Friday nights. So for lunch one day, the bf and I met up our buddy for whom we owe our relationship to and we had us some tea. That's where I came to this realization in life. I don't like huge menus with overwhelming selections. It took the bf and I a gazillion years to decide which tea we would go with. They offer single portions so that we could each try something different. They oodles of black tea. Oodles of green tea. Oodles of white tea. Did we want something fruity? Something hot or cold. The possibilities were endless. I decided on something fruity. The only suggestion that I have for the intimidating tea menu is that for something like that, you should definitely grab a menu and sit and contemplate. Don't be like us. Because you order at the counter, we came in and just stood there going uhhh ... uuhh ... for like ... a million years. The food isn't bad. They've got all kinds of cafe foods but dressed up with different ingredients that make it more unique. Like they used brie instead your other typical type of cheese. Loved it! The bf had an omelet and the friend and I both had sandwiches. Me on baguette and him on panini. Man. I think I want myself a panini maker. They also have a bunch of crepes so if you like that nutella and fruit stuff, then you should definitely come try it here!
