DAY 54 - Mushroom magic

I had arranged with the people who have my bag for them to drop it off here at 1pm, which meant that we couldn’t really leave the house until then. We used the time to cook our dinner so that we would only have to warm it up later on - not too big of a task with a rice cooker and readymade curry-sauce. At 1 I nervously waited outside the street entrance and finally finally the old man from the other day pulled up and handed me my beloved bag with everything still in it, that absolute legend. We’d arranged with Brayton from the other day (the ginger-dreadlocked guy) to go and hang out with him and his friend Luke at the beach, so shortly after he picked us up and we went to a little bay area with not many people around and set up camp at a little picnic table by the water. Brayton had, in true hippy manner, quite the strong opinions about politics, the Illuminati and the New World Order and I was soon engaged in a heated debate about various topics such as Mandela, 'the Amero', subconscious programming and the like, thinking that while he obviously had some good points, saying stuff like that relationships will in the future only work in threesomes is just a bit far-fetched. After a while he had enough of it and whisked Sarah (whom he immediately had taken a fancy to) away to sit by the water for a bit, while Luke and I remained and talked about less intense topics.

He invited us to join him and a few friends in the evening to hang out and have some mushrooms, and even though we of course had our dinner to get through, we thought that sounded like quite a fun plan. On the way home we stopped at the Choicemart again to get some ingredients for dessert, but when everything was either too expensive or non-existent we gave up on that idea and bought doughnuts for everyone instead. We served our curry at the main house and everyone said that they very much enjoyed it (whether that’s true is quite another story) and I talked to Cameron for a long time about the afterlife and such, which was quite entertaining. After our very cheeky dessert we excused ourselves and were picked up by one of Luke’s friends Matthew, a tall skinny guy, his younger brother Shane (who didn’t say a word during the entire night) and Luke himself. They brought us to a little black-sand beach that we had to trudge over a lot of rocks to get to, where there was already a campfire burning, the dark ocean rolling in the darkness and the stars glowing above. We had some mushrooms there and the rest of the night will be left undiscussed apart from these few diamonds:

a.k.a a lot of illegible inside jokes

Sarah and the dog 'Selecter' - this drawing is quite improvised since the actual sketch from that time turned out to be rather abstract when viewed the next day in daylight.

Finally after some of the boys left, the various bottles of alcohol were emptied and the fire started dying down, we fell asleep right where we were under the stars.