DAY 70 - Chromosomes

We’d sort of arranged with David to go to some sort of daytime ecstatic dance event today (it was our day off again) but naturally we got up quite late and while I dragged myself out of bed at a vaguely reasonable time, Sarah was very hungover and had to be made a ginger-tincture by one of our new guests, a smiley surfer girl called Ana. After taking it easy the entire morning and most of the afternoon we decided to go to Kehena beach again since we’d missed out last week, even though, through our lazing around, it was already quite late. On top of that it was extremely hard to get picked up today for no apparent reason and we had to wait for a very long time and get two separate rides before finally, at about 4:30 already, arriving at the beach. Once again, EVERYONE we knew and cared about was to be found here, and the inevitable had finally happened in that Satori had shed his clothes – thankfully he didn’t see us until he was safely clad in his bright blue sarong-pants again.

'Im a naughty mermaid'

We were both feeling rather lazy and antisocial and just laid around by the water for a while, only talking to a few people such as Shawn and Billy before spotting Peat and JonJon from yesterday, who persuaded us to come to ‘The Lawn’ again which is apparently where everyone goes after leaving Kehena. So we got on the back of their truck and soon settled on the grass amongst the various hippies there who were dancing, playing a whole variety of instruments, contact-juggling and engaging in a bunch of hair-curdling acrobatic acts.

Some more Kehena specimens.

I got to show my sketchbook to a few people I’d drawn which was very nice, and got talking to some people from Cinderland (Tiago who’d given me a back massage during the Kehena full moon night, a guy called Van who looked like a hobbit, and the famous Bonnaville) and they invited us to come back to Cinderland with them, and since JonJon (from this point onwards he will be referred to only as ‘Jon’ since Sarah and I both agree that that is a much less silly name) and his friends were interested as well we decided to join them. Cinderland seemed very quiet and strange after last weeks intense Taco Tuesday and I was feeling quite tired and sober anyway and so just settled by the fire while Sarah was getting engaged in increasingly bizarre conversations with Jon (J: ‘And there I was dancing away, and suddenly I see this alien dancing behind me!’ S: ‘Oh wow… what colour was it?’ J: ‘It was…it was just like my colour, but his head was just really really big! And, y’know, I just wanted to be like ‘Dude you’ve got a really fucking big head!’’)

After a while the two of them left to go on a walk and I remained by the fire, trying very hard at this point not to fall asleep. Peat came over soon to inquire where Jon had gone because he wanted to leave, and so we sat silently for a while waiting for our respective friends to come back. When that didn’t happen for another long time we finally decided to go looking for them, expecting them to be just around the corner, but after looking all around Cinderland and checking all the houses including ‘the yoooga rooommm’ and finding nothing, Peat decided to leave without Jon and his friend Natalie set me up to sleep at Cinderland in ‘The Goddess Temple’ so that I could meet up with Sarah again in the morning or whenever she came back. I tried falling asleep but was surprisingly agitated by Sarah’s absence at my side (we have quite literally not been out of each others sight more than half an hour for the last two-and-a-half months) so I went back to the campfire, where soon enough she turned up again and we both went to sleep under one sleeping bag with some sort of foam material as a pillow.