Escamequita

I was pretty excited to spend my birthday at the surfcamp as this would mean I would spend it with people I knew and could probably even have "a little" party.
My friend Ines from Guatemala was also coming to visit me at the camp the week of my birthday. She arrived the day before. We thought about celebrating into my birthday. But as people at the camp usually go to bed early to be fresh & ready to surf the next morning, we skipped that. My birthday started with an early morning surf session at Playa Maderas and after I caught a few nice waves I was already satisfied with my birthday even before breakfast. But it kept on getting better. Ines had seriously brought a cake all the way from Guatemala which she baked with her mum before getting on the bus. Also everybody seemed to be in a party mood so we got a cooler and beer to take to Yankee Beach with us. So I spend my afternoon eating birthday cake and drinking cold beer at the beach with two more surf sessions. When the sun was going down I thought I didn't need anything else for the perfect birthday. But the day wasn't over. Our surf guide Wade had promised to take over the bar for me that night and organized a Mojito Special. So after dinner (my favorite at the camp: beef tacos!) we started drinking mojitos at the bar. First I thought it might be a quiet night again. But at some point Ines started doing rounds of rum shots and I guess that's when things started getting crazy 😜
The night turned into a wild party with people dancing on the bar (me) and doing the shotgun-thing with beer cans (not me). A girl arrived late at night and Johannes and I did paper-scissor-stone to figure out who had to check her in. Even though I won I somehow ended up showing her around. And according to what she told us later I didn't stop explaining to her that it's normally not like that in the camp - people partying after midnight (which is true). But we kept on going till around 3:30am. Before I went to bed (or actually the hammock as we were fully booked and I was sleeping under the stars that night) I was shocked of the mess behind the bar - who should clean this up? But when I woke up the next morning everything had magically disappeared.
All together this was definitely one of my best birthdays ever!

As Ines was staying a full week we took advantage of the semana santa weekend and went to Saturday Funday (over easter they did three parties which means Friday to Sunday Funday). We went to San Juan with almost everybody from the camp and had a few drinks in the bars along the main road. But when we went to Pacha Mama we realized that not a lot of people decided to go for the saturday option. Compared to my first time this one was more a Rapture Funday - I guess we made out almost 50% of the crowd 😅
We still had a lot of fun but went home quite early and I was happy to enjoy a relaxed sunday as the end of my birthday weekend.Read more