Santa Marta, Colombia, South America

Last night was absolutely brilliant! We drank and danced until 3am with the live band, and then when they finished, we continued dancing on the beach until about 5am. All we were drinking was whiskey they whole night, so Melissa and I were definitely hammered, and slowly made our way back to the room where Luz Mery had left the door open for us. I don’t even remember going to sleep, but I can only imagine it was within seconds of getting back to the room.

I woke up this morning, I don’t even know what time it was, and all I knew was that I wanted to die. I had one of the worst hangovers ever this morning. I am sure it was something to do with drinking straight whiskey all night and therefore being incredibly dehydrated by the time I went to bed. It was awful. I stayed in bed until noon, but Melissa was awesome. She took care of me and Vanessa, as we were both on the verge of death. She brought me water, paracetamol, and some sort of miracle effervescent that knocked the stomach hangover straight out of me. My head still didn’t feel great, but at least I could stand up without feeling like I was going to puke.

I went down to the beach with Melissa to relax for a while, and then finally at 4pm I decided it was time to try some food. I went to the snack bar at the beach and had a piece of greasy pizza and a hot dog, and they both went down just fine. I started feeling better immediately. I actually felt so much better that Melissa, Vanessa and I went to play tennis at 6:30pm. We just hit the ball around for about 45 minutes, nothing too serious, but it was nice to move around a bit after being bedridden for most of the day.

We all went to dinner at the buffet restaurant at 8:30pm, and I was surprised to see that they were only serving seafood. They have a few different stations, so there’s normally fish, chicken and beef, somewhere around there, but not tonight. Melissa noticed this, knew that I didn’t like seafood, and got the waiter to bring me a steak from the Italian restaurant so I could have more than just a plate full of salad. She’s so good to me!

I enjoyed my dinner and then everyone is going to go to the show at 10pm, but I just am not feeling up for it. I figured I am better staying in tonight and getting a good night’s sleep so I can feel 100% for tomorrow. Hopefully that works…