This is day 100! We’ve been travelling for 100 days, and who knows how many days we’ll do by the end of it. The original plan was around 300 days in total, but we’ll see where we end up!
I’ve been asked how close we are to the beach. We can see the ocean, but the beach by our condo is a very steep one, and so it disappears completely during high tide, which is currently early afternoon, prime beach walking time. So we currently have to travel to walk on a beach.
Because it’s day 100, I have decided we’re going out for breakfast. I handed Téa Google Maps and asked her to pick the place, and so we ended up walking across the street and a few doors up, to OneDay. It’s a bagel cafe, and their breakfast sandwiches are huge!
After our celebratory breakfast across the street, we headed home to do our schoolwork for the day. Science always brings fun new topics into our lives, but unfortunately the subject that gets shifted in favour of other adventures most of the time.
After school, we headed down to the pools and swam for a long time. The girls and I could totally get used to having a pool in our daily lives at home, but it’s taking a toll on our hair! If anyone has suggestions on how to get hair to remain silky smooth when swimming and showering daily, I’m all ears!
Today is Thursday, and that means the Tamarind market is back open for the weekend! We are there with bells on pretty soon after 5pm, and so some of the vendors are not ready for business yet. It’s fairly quiet, and lots of seats available. No lineups in any direction, and my first stop is always the smoothie stand.
Joe and I shared a salt baked tilapia for dinner. It came with lettuce wraps and flavourful green herbs, rice noodles and two dipping sauces. And plastic gloves! The fish was covered in a salt crust that we just lifted open, and the fish inside was so tender and juicy. Absolutely delicious!! Once paired with some noodles, Thai basil and other greens with bite, rolled up tight and dipped in spicy sauces, it was out of this world!
After we finished dinner, we picked up the large mango sticky rice we’ve had every market night here so far. The vendor seemed unsure, and her coworker in the back was slicing mangoes and giving them to the vendor to sample. They looked… pale. She portioned some out for us when she deemed it sellable, and I asked her if it’s sweet. She nodded and smiled and said yes, sweet… I should have known!
At home we settled in for the night with our snacks and dessert. The mango was tarter than we’d like, not the sweet and soft dessert we’d gotten used to. We had other snacks as well, and did not suffer. All mango sticky rice is good mango sticky rice, even though some is better mango sticky rice…
All in all, a good 100th travel day was had, and we look forward to the rest!