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The joy is indescribable. I made a monumental leap in my painting tonight! I am so excited right now that I don’t think I can fall asleep tonight!
Lately I’ve been doing lots of reading, thinking, reflecting, and listening to other artists. I have a critique group and that really helped too. After weeks of meditating [...]
Just when I finally finished writing about our honeymoon trip five months after we returned (and I only wrote about the essentials, been real busy), John and I visited a new country again (did I mention that there are two other domestic trips I haven’t had time to write about yet?).
We just returned from a 6-day [...]
Surrounded by this kind of gorgeous water, and enjoyed snorkeling 2-3 times a day, it didn’t take us too long to decide that we want to get certified in scuba diving. There’s a Dive Center on our resort island that offered full-service diving package with lessons given by multi-lingual instructors. It was all very convenient.
To get [...]
While taking a tour of a local village, our guide asked as a trivia question. He said whoever gets it right at the end of the tour will win a prize.
The question was: “How many different colors of coconut are there in Maldives?”
So, throughout the walking tour, I kept on looking up to observe the [...]
Our resort offers various excursions — picnic on a deserted island, a romantic night in a hut on a deserted island, trip to a local village (which we did), an evening with a Maldivian family, sunset dinners at the lagoon…etc. The one excursion I enjoyed the most, and will definitely remember forever, is traditional Maldivian line fishing [...]