Lisa & Kenny have landed

On Saturday Lisa and Kenny arrived in Kovalam to spend the week with us, it is their mid term break in Dubai.  We surprised them by meeting them at the airport.  We were waving welcome gift sarongs when they came out of arrivals so they could see us, not that we needed to we were the only whities there.  It was very emotional to see them after nearly two years.  They loved the surprise.

Their resort is a twenty-minute tuk tuk drive away from us.  It is beautiful 5 star resort that sits on a cliff overlooking the beach.

Lisa & Kenny in their tuk tuk

Yesterday they spent the day with us here on Lighthouse Beach.  It was nice to spend time with friends from home, old established friends so today we spent the day at their beach.  It turned out one of those days when opportunities arise.  This is how it happened:

While we were swimming a local man was diving for mussels (it is a common sight) came out of the surf beside us with a huge bag of mussels.  Lisa followed him and was asking him questions, as she is known to do.  The outcome, we ended up having freshly cooked mussels with lemon and fried rice for lunch at a guesthouse set in the coconut trees off the beach.  Besides a bit of sand; they don’t rinse their mussels before cooking they use the salt as flavour, lunch was good fun so good in fact we are returning there tomorrow night for my birthday dinner. 

Kumar, the man from the guesthouse and his brother (the cook) have organised lobster, fish curry, coconut rice and naan for a birthday dinner.  Kumar is also organising a birthday cake.  I promise to let you know how it all went on Wednesday.  I am very excited about having a special birthday dinner that was unplanned till Lisa started asking questions - good on her.  What a great story!

We were the only ones on the beach - yahoo!

Our mussels cooking

Here they come

Looking down to the beach from the guesthouse

Looking from the steps of the guesthouse

Rackman came to pick us up after lunch