A day at the Beach

Hey Guys!

How are you? Hope you've been good. An article I wrote was put up on Bella Naija last week Thursday, it brought in a lot of views and new readers too :) Welcome to my blog folks, all aboard, hope you enjoy the journey!

I don't go to the beach often because
1) I can't swim
2) My parents don't like my siblings and I going due to their experiences e.g. loosing friends at the beach
3) I didn't grow up doing it so now I don't really go unless I have to

You all now I started a new chapter of my life a few weeks ago. My office had a little community event which is like a day of bonding for all the staff. This year's own was at Ilase Beach.
Now I've been to Ilase once before, when I was much younger, well in 2009. I went with my cousins, aunty and uncle. I can count the number of times I've been on a boat/ship.

One time in London when I went on a River Thames cruise with my mum, dad, sister and cousin. I think it was 2006/7, it moved really slowly and the tour guide was just telling us about the different tourist sights we were going past. I remember he said if you wave at people on one of the bridges you would have good luck for 13 years or maybe it was 7, I waved sha.
The second time was a paddle boat at some park in london, it was a little pond and we rowed with our feet, nothing scary
The third time I went on a boat was the first time I went to Ilase, the wind was in our hair and it was a pretty small speed boat

The fourth time was in China in 2012 and during this time I was on the water thrice. I really need to share my adventures in China with y'all. I went on a ferry which took us to an island and I went on a little boat somewhere in Hangzhou.

By the Beach

The fifth time was the day I finished my final exams in Uni. I would never forget that day, the 31st of May 2013, my last day as an Economics student and my last day as a 20 year old girl. My birthday was the day after, June 1st, Best Day!
The sixth time was last week to Ilase with my office folks.

We took off from a jetty behind mtn, I went on the smaller boat which people called a Danfo but it got to land much quicker than the big cruiser which people called a coaster bus.

Big Cruiser-Coaster

Small Boat-Danfo

It was slightly awkward because I'm new and I haven't been properly introduced but my category of people weren't called up to say more about themself. My hair didn't stay put atall and my dress was too big. I packed shorts but I didn;'t really see the point of changing as I wasn't involved in any games. My category of people were forgotten again but it's all good, I'm contract staff.

The fact that our boat got there first is a perfect example of the statement "The first shall be last and the last shall be first"

This life jacket makes me look like an orobo sha

There was a trail from the jetty to the beach house, I'm not about that walking life so I waited for the Quad Bikes

Your thoughts on these specs?

The food was Amazing, doesn't the small chops look tempting?

You people know I Love my Small Chops

If you didn't know, that means you haven't read this post!

Food pics make me lick my lips.

On the way back to land, we slowed down at certain points to show sympathy for the people on the cruiser and so we could get a taste of what they were going through. I took some pictures of the ships we passed by at this point.

No boat should be on the waterways after 6, we made it back in time, Thank God! The Water Cops.

Looking through the pictures reminds me of Keyshia Cole's Heaven Sent video. I remember singing it with my Dolphin Girls, Adiba, Inikpi and Arinade.

This flying hair won't let someone be great sha, I straightened it yesterday as I was contemplating taking the weave off so now it looks neater.

Dress: Matalan (it's a size 8 but it's slightly big which is very annoying, finna go to the tailor)