A lot of the restaurants were right on the water, so you could almost always have a pretty view. Especially for us, because we ate dinner ridiculously early compared to everyone else (we normally ate between 5:00 p.m and 7:00 p.m. depending on the day).
Here Brian and I are waiting for our food. I like this picture because my hair really liked soaking in the salty ocean and then being blown dry in the wind.
And here is an awesome fish meal. It even had the eye still on it, and little sharp teeth.
A lot of the restaurants had these giant lobsters. We never got them because they were $25/pound and weighed around 8 pounds. That's as big as some of our big chickens. Look how big they are compared to my hand.
We bought food from a lot of the smaller establishments, such as the outdoor market and the side of the road fruit stands. I only bought fruit from a grocery store once, and that is when Brian was sick and dehydrated, and the fruit from the road stands was greatly superior to the grocery store fruit.
The bananas didn't taste tons different, but they were better, and even if they were ripe they tasted good, I normally don't like bananas that are too ripe.
This is the food we got at the outdoor market, that we took back to our room and grilled.
The fish blew up all big
We also liked to go to the French bakeries for breakfast. They had delicious pastries that we would eat with the fruit we would buy. They were really French and one of the only places on the island where the employees would not speak English, and the words didn't have some English on them. After I went in one alone and had to do my best with pointing, I sent Brian in after that. He enjoyed using his French speaking abilities.
As the week progressed we got braver with our restaurant choices and then we wanted to try some real authentic island food. On the way home from kayaking we passed this little restaurant that advertised all local food. So we went back, and I think we were the first tourists to eat there, ever. When we pulled up, they asked us if we needed directions, and we said no, we wanted to eat there. There were a bunch of people sitting around watching the World Cup. When the game ended they all got up and gave us fist bumps.
The restaurant was run out of this guy's house. We ate on his patio, and he cooked in his kitchen. We got the creole plate, and on it was a crab. We asked him where he got the crabs, and he said that he caught them himself, and kept them in a cage, and there was a cage of them on the patio. That was a really fun place to eat at.
And now here are some random facts about the island, that were different, that I want to remember.'
- There was one-ish main road that went around the whole island and you just looked at the map and decided whether you wanted to go left or right from where you were.
- But in some of the big cities in split into two or three and you could end up going a totally random way.
- The main road was the same size as all the side roads, so sometimes it was hard to know if you had made it to the main road, until you drove for a while.
- They only had one stop light, but they had a lot of round abouts. You had to know where to get off, but there would be more or sometimes less exits than there were on the map, and if you lost count if which round about you were on, you could go on a detour.
- Fortunately even though the road was a little crazy, it was hard to get really lost, and after a week of driving we were pretty comfortable with where things were on the French side.
- Traffic was really fluid, and cars just cut into traffic and it wasn't a big deal. There were not lots of big vehicles, like semis on the island, but it was intimidating to have them come towards you. The vehicle that got to go where ever they wanted whenever they wanted, was anything two wheeled. They just weaved in and out of traffic and in and out of oncoming traffic, however they wanted.
- There were always boys riding their bicycles around. They were often popping wheelies for quite some distance. Then we saw this young man, riding his bike through traffic, but his bike had no front wheel, maybe all the boys are practicing just in case.
- Restaurants are really relaxed about getting you out of there. Maybe because we ate so early, and everything was slow, but they would let us just sit there after we ate as long as we wanted. We usually had to ask for the check when we got bored waiting and wanted to leave.
- There were stray cats and dogs everywhere. I wanted to bring some kittens home, but I didn't know how to pull it off.
- There are also iguanas everywhere. Some are probably 5 feet long.
- We found this hermit crab wandering around. It had surprisingly long arms, it could reach Brian, and almost pinched him.
So that's are super awesome honeymoon.
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