Friendship in Mauritius

Hi! Remember me? I'm that girl, Mallory, who used to write on this blog. I should be publicly shamed for my negligence, but instead I am coming back to beg forgiveness. I'll spare you all my apology and just dive right in.

Mauritius is like a dream- a super short dream filled with clear blue water, pina coladas and good friends. Semester at Seas time in Mauritius is severely limited, thanks to the thoroughly charming behavior of past voyages (who mostly just get super drunk and destroy things). Thanks to that truly diplomatic behavior of past voyages, our time on the island was very short- only one day. So, I had to make it count. This was the first port where all my new SAS family members had nothing planned, and so it was the first place that felt like a home away from home with the best people on the planet.

I began my day with my friend Joe. Joe's brother is married to an Indian woman who grew up in Mauritius and had a request; to find her childhood home and take a picture of it for her. What we didn't know is that her old home is on the same street as the Prime minister's primary residence on the Island. So, we make a wrong turn and there are armed guards- oops. BUT, eventually we did find it and creepily took a picture of the house (I never quite as creepy as a do when Im with Joe).

After our trist into creeperland, we finally made it out to the star destination of the day- the beach. Mauritius has some of the best beaches in the world and the beach we landed on, Flik'n'Flak Beach, had to easily be one of the most beautiful beaches I have been to in my life (and I grew up in Florida, so I have some expeirence with this). The heart inside my lifeguard chest rejoiced in the crystal clear water and the weak currents. Plus, with the help of SPF 50, I remained pastey white and sunburn free!

The true star of the day were the people I was with. These people have become my family here on the ship and I will be eternally changed because of them.