the shark, the dolphin and the browns

there's a gecko running around my room. they chirp like birds. fuckin weird if you ask me. better than the resident iguana rocky likes to chase every morning. have you ever seen one of those things run? i can't walk for laughing every time i see it. it's just simply absurd. one of those things in nature that just shouldn't be. iguanas running. what the fuck.

i got up really early yesterday to take my folks to cozumel. on the way to the ferry my dad's lugging around his bag of snorkel gear and some guy yells out, "señor, you going snorkeling?" and my dad says no, so the guy asks why he's carrying his mask and fins and my dad points to my mom and says, "to smack the wife!!" haha.

we got on the ferry and this mexican guy comes along selling a snorkel tour and my dad wasn't interested, and he was in one of his goofy moods and when my dad is in one of his goofy moods, there is no one he won't talk to, and that usually means he's fucking with them in some way or another. so my dad says to this guy, "no inglés" and the guy starts his whole schpiel over again in spanish and when he's done my dad says, "no, gracias" and they both just crack up. my dad knows like maybe 6 words in spanish and somehow he managed to convince this guy he was fluent. fucking hilarious.

once we're on cozumel, it's ten bucks to corona beach which is a cluster of plastic tables on a little coral plateau, away from anything else at all, where natural coral steps lead the way to snorkeling. i was swimming alongside my mom and saw a fucking shark about 4 ft long maybe 20 meters in front of us. i shrieked sort of and was like, "mom, mom, look!" and she looked and didn't see, and again i pointed and she still didn't see, pointed again and finally her eyes grew wide and she says, "let's go! now! go!" and i never saw her swim so fast. fucking insane, it wasn't like in thailand when bobby saw the shark and told me to boot it and i never looked back, it was like i looked this fucker in the eyes for 3 minutes right directly in front of me and my body was shaking with adrenaline and i didn't let myself leave because i was so fascinated. stupid maybe but dozens of people were snorkeling around there all day and noone seemed to get hurt by this shark so i guess he was well fed, didn't need to taste the humans for a belly full of fishies. i was fucking enchanted. a shark. fucking beautiful. then as we sat at the tables and dried off before our next stop, we saw a pod of dolphins swim by, leaping out of the water. i kept text messaging my brother. bobby is absolutely obsessed with sharks and dolphins more so than anything in the world. he reads incessantly about sharks, the different types and which are most dangerous, their migration patterns, diet, etc. he knows more about sharks than i think sharks do. so i texted him when i saw the shark and he called me and was like, "what the fuck, you saw a shark?" and i told him all about it. then when i saw the dolphins i texted him again and he called again and he was so disappointed he didn't come with us. he spends half his life in the water studying to become a dive instructor, and has wanted so badly nothing more than to see a shark and dolphins in the wild up close.

we left corona beach and went to the first town ever on cozumel, called cedral. i was there before in the summer with john. it's a cool little town with some mayan ruins and this tiny little church doused in flowers in the middle of it. my mom stood outside the church and asked if we were allowed in and i said, quite seriously actually, "of course, god welcomes all" and she laughed. after cedral we went back to where the ferries leave cozumel and waited for the next ferry at a restaurant and i met a tattoo artist and chatted him up a bit. he had the most beautiful portrait tatt on his chest, so impressive. like kat von d good.

i spent all day watching football and the browns won and we're happy the browns won and now it's bed time. beunos noches.

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posted by Courtney at 12:38 a.m.

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