Today we woke up around 11am. Right when I opened the door and went into the hallway, Dustin was walking by and told us we had 15min until we were going on another tour. I then skipped breakfast and we all got on the boat. Our group today was Dustin, Matt, and girl from Finland, and a man named Andy from England. We were heading to Wizards beach and our drivers name was Muy. His name should have been Muy Loco because he was driving the boat like a stunt driver. The waves we huge and he was hitting them at full speed. We were in the front and I almost fell out of the boat two times. It was a rough ride and my butt hurt every time the boat went air born and then slammed back onto the water. I finally told Muy Loco to stop and I gave everyone life jackets for seat cushions. But by the time we got there cushions, we were pretty much there. When we arrived, Loco could only get us so close to the beach without crashing the boat, so we had to lift all of our bags above our head and jump into waist deep water. We stumbled over some rocks but finally made it to the beach. We walked a little ways and reached a nice place were some other people were. Everyone got there suntan lotion on, then went swimming. The waves were strong and about 10 feet high. There was a strong under toe but I managed to swim with out being sucked under. On the contrary, our poor friend Andy had a different experience. The first wave that he jumped into hit him, through him to the ocean floor, and then dislocated his shoulder. He was in serious pain and wanted to go to the hospital to get it reset. In the mean time, one man ran to the only house on that was close on the island, while some other people and I went to give him some company. I talked to him and kept his mind off his shoulder as much as I could. About an hour later a boat finally arrived and we carried his stuff to the boat and helped him get in it. He thanked us and he was off. Later a couple from Germany had gotten robbed while they wee swimming. Some of the locals on the island had waited and watched in the forest behind all of us until people went into the ocean and left there stuff unattended, then they would run out and then run back into the forest and would never be seen again. The local police came and I had to be the translator for the police and the couple. After helping them, I went swimming some more and then our group was ready to go. We caught the next boat and almost crashed trying to get out into the ocean, because the tide was coming in and the waves were big. The diver was amazing because he knew exactly how to maneuver around the waves and make it back to town safely. After we all took showers and then asked some people where to go to dinner. Everyone recommended a Ti restaurant that was on the top of a hill on one island. We were also told that it was pretty hard to get there but we were determined to get some good Thai food. We took the boat and landed on a small town island that was filled with more locals than tourist. It was very nice and everyone was super helpful. It was night time and Matt brought a flash light just incase. We were told to go up this walk way and keep asking the people until we found it. We started walking up this sidewalk for about 10min and pasted houses with people playing dominoes and sitting outside. It was very chill and I liked the walk. Soon we reached the last house with lights and asked were to go. The lady pointed at a small path the lead to complete darkness. Thank god Matt brought his light. We started down the path until we walked right into ankle deep mud. The whole trek from there was through this mucky muddy path and we got extremely dirty. We could hardly see and didn’t even know how much longer we had to walk. Then finally we saw this nice house with lights on in the back porch and we put the flash light up to a sign that told us this was it. We found a bucket with water to wash our feet, then we headed in. When we got there, the place was dimly light and felt magical. Some of our other hostile mates were there and welcomed us. The couple who owned this house/restaurant was very nice and seemed like they had the perfect life. The guy was named Cory and was from the states. He had married a woman from Thailand and they moved here and started their small restaurant. He told me that this was the only really Thai restaurant with a real Thai cook in Panama. Also, through word of mouth of the travelers, this restaurant had been heard of all the way up to Nicaragua. We ordered and told him what spice level we wanted, then sat and talked with our mates on this small porch overlooking the bay. The dim light made everything so cool and I felt very relaxed. Our food came out and it was sooooooooo gooood. The red meat curry I got was perfect and hot and like comfort food. We ate and sat around for a while, then I ordered a big chocolate organic brownie that the lady told us was made down the road. That just topped it off. That restaurant was one of the best restaurants I have been to on my travels so far. Finally thanked the couple and set off into the darkness. The walk was even harder because it had gotten even darker but we managed to get all the way down the mountain back to the dock in the small town. We waited and then caught a water taxi back to the main town. Later that night we hit the Iguana bar first, then went to the Aqua Lounge bar. We needed to take another water taxi to get across the bay to get there. This bar was outside and had a hole in the deck for jumping into. There was an outside dance floor and we danced the night away. Also some crazy people jumped off the roof of the bar into the water and it looked like fun but I didn’t want to get wet. Later we went to the hostile and went to bed.
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