Hello From a very sunny, breezy Meerufenfushi. Meeru for short. A Maldivian island about an hour boat ride from Male. I am...FINALLY...in the place I will call home for the next 2 weeks. It's a little surreal and I'm not fully convinced that the past 3 days haven't been a dream, and if so...let me sleep...never wake a happy momma.
All this happened because I have an extremely generous sister and brother in law who invited me along .(I kinda think the BIL is gonna have fun with the whole "sister wives" thing.) I need to back up a little. They discovered the joys of cruising about 4 years ago and have taken to it like...well like a sister/sister-in-law to business class? They have gradually booked longer and longer trips until my sister finally pulled the trigger on an around the world cruise. They leave from Florida Dec of 2022 and end in London May of 2023. And while they typically kennel their animals, this was too long of a time frame so they asked me if I would come out to Washington state and pet sit. Since the pandemic has given the the opportunity to prove my effectiveness at working from home, I've been approved to work from Washington. So sometime next fall I will take up temporary residence in Bellingham. (And to be clear NOT being in Minnesota for a winter made the decision much easier). As "compensation" for the inconvenience, and to a degree to help keep Michelle company for part of the 3 weeks that Bruce will be diving, they graciously offered me this opportunity. And when opportunity knocks. A LOT of flaming hoops had to be jumped through to make this happen, but...LOOK WHERE I AM!
The Maldives are a group of islands (over 1000) of which around 190 are habitable. It is almost exactly on the equator just south west of India in the Indian Ocean. Meerufenfushi is in the N Atoll basically the most eastern most of the islands. Michelle and Bruce have one of those amazing rooms (this is after all their 5 year anniversary) over the water, the top red dot, while I am "making due" with a villa on the beach the other red dot).
The entire island is a resort. It's about 2 miles from end to end. I walked a little of it yesterday but I'll be honest...the jet lag hit like a truck around 3 pm yesterday and the inevitable headache followed. So I took a short nap, headed to dinner and returned to my room where I crashed. Hard.
But not before catching my first sunset.
