The big three oooooohhhh!
So, I’m 30 years old.
I haven’t imagined myself much at 30 but here I am. I am not having in midlife crisis moment as
my mother predicted. I am actually very
happy to be done being in my 20’s.
I decided to have a birthday party in Chicago with my
closest friends and family. All of my
siblings were there except for Courtney, who classically ran away from a family
function, and Najee, who was too young to be there. My mom and my daddy’s were there. It was
super fun. My wonderful boyfriend CIC
went all out for my birthday. He bought
some sexy ass clothes to enhance his handsome looks and he got us a hotel suite
in downtown Chicago.
He surprised me with some champagne and an amazing
view. The suite was so huge that instead
of going out to nightclub like I had planned, we ended up partying in the hotel
room. My siblings got to get to know CIC
more. I was also blessed to be able to
fly my Chica to Chicago to celebrate with me.
I am so glad she was there because when my baby sister got all funky on
me I had my Chica’s healing power.
After partying in the hotel with my siblings and friends, I
spent a romantic night with CIC. We has
thus huge bathroom and awesome tub. We
decided to run and hot bubble bath and bather together while having a night
cap. During the bath we had amazing
birthday sex. After the weekend
celebration, we decided to do things like that more often. I hadn’t seen him in about 3 weeks up until
that point.
CIC is based in LAX and commuting from IAH. Meanwhile, I am MSP based and I have been on
ground since January. I am also in yoga
teacher training every Sunday so we haven’t been seeing each other as much as
we are use to. That may all change as I
am going back to the line in April. I
talk more on this later.
So from Chicago, my best friend Unicorn and I went to Costa
Rica to celebrate our birthdays together.
Her birthday is 2 days after mine.
She turned 27 years old. Unicorn
is an interesting woman. She use to be
very egocentric and quite the perfectionist and I have seen her blossom into a
loving woman. I actually didn’t like her
that much when I met her. Never judge a
book by it’s cover but this cover makes it hard not to. Typical Tracie friend: astoundingly beautiful
with the body to match. How do I find
these women??? Why do I find these women?
We flew to Costa Rica from Atlanta. We go a great deal on our adventure: 8 nights
with breakfast and transportation for $450 per person. Can’t beat that! Our first night we traveled on a bumpy van
ride to Arenal, which is where there is a beautiful non-erupting volcano. It was a pretty cool view. We were right across the street from it. It was breath taking and my first ever sight
of a volcano. The next day we went zip
lining near the volcano and had some easy on the eyes instructors. Totally played into our egos and it was so
fun. After zip lining we enjoyed some
man made hot springs and delicious piña coladas.
After drinks we went back into the city to hang with a
couple guys we had met earlier who were trying to sell us a deal on an
adventure with free massages from them… They were cool dudes but it took a
while to calm them down from the flirting.
We drank a bit that night and then headed back to the hotel to recharge
for the next day.
The next day was perhaps the high point of the vacation for
me. We found another awesome deal from a
tourist vendor. We got to go on a 2 hour
jungle hike around the volcano and then partake in adult beverages around a
natural hot spring. When the
transportation picked us up from our hotel, the van was pretty full. There were 5 big dudes in there from Poland. A couple of them were particularly
interested in my vibrams. It made for a
cool conversation piece. Unicorn and I agreed on a good-looking ones. Prior to our trip we decided we would find
some guys to buy us drinks and flirt with us.
These were those guys indeed. We
had awesome time trekking through the jungle.
Our guide had 27 years of experience in the jungles and well as the
volcano. He was pretty epic. After the jungle hike we went to the hot
springs where our guide had rum and juice for us. The Polish guys found out it was a birthday
vacation for us and began to sing birthday songs in Polish very exuberantly. It was pretty damn cool. We then enjoyed each other in the hot springs
together. After it was over we all
agreed to meet downtown for more birthday celebrations.
We met at some dive bar.
We were 15 minutes late and the boys were about 40 minutes late. It all worked out in the end though. They bought us drinks all night. It later came out that one guy in particular
was interested in me in a romantic way.
His name was Martin. He looked
like Eric Bana…drool…but even hotter. I
had a free pass from CIC to enjoy myself from vacation but for some reason when
it came down to it, I only saw CIC in that moment. In fact, I wasn’t even turned on by the guy
or anything. I wonder how that would
have turned out…
The next day we headed to Montezuma early in the
morning. It’s right off the inner east
coast of the peninsula so we had about a 2 hour car drive, a 1.5 hour ferry
ride, and about another hour or so in the car.
We stayed at a place called El Sano Banano and it was amazing. Wonderful staff and food! I loved it there. Unicorn met some American boys in the van
from Arenal who were also on their way to Montezuma. I had no interest in them because one, it was
early in the morning and I don’t care to normally talk so much. Two, after the very cool and hot Polish
gentlemen, everyone else seemed uninteresting.
Three, all I wanted in Costa Rica was to experience the rain forest and
meet hot foreign guys; my trip has peaked the night before so I didn’t give a
shit what happened after that.
I am sure they thought I was a total bitch and I really
didn’t give a shit.
Fortunately/Unfortunately, we spent a lot more time with these guys with
a fair share of drama. They were just
some dude as white boys and I just have no interest in that. At the same time, all of us shared some very
personal things with each other. We were
destined to meet and connect. One of the
guys, Billy, is on this beautiful spiritual journey and although he came off
like a dumbass American, never judge a book by it’s cover, he was very deep and
had intuitive messages for everyone. The
other guy Chris was not being himself all the time yet Unicorn took an interest
in him, which is why we were all hanging out in the first place.
I did my best to save face but I was pretty bored by these
guys. I personally don’t go on vacation
to meet American dudes but that’s just
me. Of course I never mind playing wingman for any of my tribe. When we arrived in Montezuma, we all
decided to do a small hike to a waterfall.
It was pretty cool. I didn’t get in the water because I wasn’t confident
in my swimming skills (yet another topic to write about). We ended the night with margaritas, which
didn’t sit well on my tummy the next day but I pooped it all out.
We mostly ate at our hotel.
I ate lots of fruit and it was delicious. The food in this country is all organic and
pretty damn good. I ate so healthy there. I drank a lot of beer but balanced it all out
with lots of walking, hiking, and yoga!
The next day we spent a lot of time on the beach and did a kundalini
yoga class. It was Unicorn’s first time
doing it and she didn’t like it. She
prefers more vigorous asana. Most nights
we ate at this place called Organico that had live music and great food. We went to this bar called Chico’s, which was
dominated very much by locals. It was a
strange place.
The next day we went SUP Boarding for a couple of
hours. We had another great
instructor/tour guide. I wore a life
vest and fell in the water once due to my inability to turn well and some wind. It was very refreshing. We stopped to eat
some coconut on the shore in the middle of boarding. It was beautiful. The next day we had signed up for spa
treatments, spent more time at a pool from a sister hotel and on the beach, and
took a yoga class with live music. I
forgot the name of the unique Swiss instrument but it was awesome. A very strengthening and centering class.
The next day we made the trek back to San Juan in order to be
nearer to the airport to make our flight home.
It was a motel but it was friendly, clean, and had nice staff. We ended up getting drunk in our room while watching
Wall-E and doing yoga. It was a great
way to end an awesome trip. We had pizza
that did a number on my stomach the next day.
I did my best to stay away from dairy while I was there and I had too
much on that last day. The next morning
we made business class on the way back to the States.
After clearing customs I was able to make it on a flight back to MSP in what seemed like impossible odds. There were only 2 seats available and I was number 10 on the list. I have never placed any worry in being able to get home and I wanted to maintain my faith in seeing myself at my yoga class. Me and the Divine were able to make a miracle happen and I was the first standby cleared on that flight.
All in all I have had an extremely blessed 30th birthday experience. I am so grateful to god for all the people who love and support me but mostly for god's abundant and infinite love. He truly amazes me with his blessings. Conclusively, I would like to blog about the following topics below.
Swimming
Food & My Body
One Night Stands
CIC & I
Pain
Yoga and Teacher Training
I miss writing and it always gives me better perspective. I love you, I love me, we are one. Namaste.
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