Jo soy malo.....and misc. musings

....well, the last time I felt like this was 30 years ago as a young and stupid visitor to the Club Med in Guadeloupe and who, against his own better judgement, participated in an excursion to a private beach and played young and stupid beach games involving lots of alcohol with a lot of other young and stupid Club Med-ers ....by 3pm I was down and out with all the classic symptoms of heat exhaustion.
....although I'm no longer young and stupid [ just stupid....but I digress]  the same symptoms manifested themselves late Thursday afternoon [flushed, feverish, shivers one minute then sweating the next, a bit woozy, achey, flu like, etc...]  and were in full force by the evening. ....fortunately I missed out on the messy ones like nausea and....but that might be TMI.....then again, it just might be the flu!.....btw, others, myself included, are exhibiting cold like symptoms...
...who wouldn't, going from +34c and humid to a nicely air conditioned 22.

...took Friday off....spent most of the day in bed...going down to the lobby around 3 so housekeeping could do their thing.....and blogged.

...I was somewhat overwhelmed by the concern shown by the crew upon their return. All the, let's call them the "more mature", female members felt my forehead and concurred that I was feverish....Wendy went so far as to kiss my forehead and announce that it was 102 degrees!
...I wanted to know when her lips were last calibrated.

...I'm not used to all this attention and quite liked it .....
...definitely raised my spirits a notch or two.

...also pleased to report that Emily, the first victim, is feeling much better. So much so that she participated in the town excursion today.
I'm feeling much better today as well but choose to pass on the town trip as I had been there, done that, and, unfortunately, the trip to the orphanage was cancelled....besides, I need to save my strength for the futbol game this evening!

...oh yah, and the build!.....I'm told that all went well with walls rising rapidly. The weather being somewhat more agreeable on site.
[and dare I say that it was announced that my presence was missed...but modesty forbids!]
Apparently a looney and a toonie were embedded in the concrete threshold of the main entrance. "with this, you will never be poor!"
Alixe was overwhelmed by the gesture, the masons were touched as well, never having seen the ritual before....and the crew was pleased by the reaction. I somehow suspect that it might have gotten a tad emotional but no one fessed up to that.
I will try to score a few pics......but first comes futbol!