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[tsuki_no_bara]

hi flist, i'm home. :D well, i've been home since saturday but i needed the whole weekend to get my shit together (and stop napping!) and yesterday when i got home from work i felt so awful all i could do was lie on my couch and watch criminal minds reruns and try not to be nauseous. and on sunday i curled for the first time in weeks and was just

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[anigo]

Cuba's one of my favourite places on earth, but as a Canadian we have less challenges getting there or exchanging money, so that helps. It's ridiculously poor, but I find they wear their shabby really proudly and I don't think I've met a mean Cuban yet. Over the years I've gathered a couple of friends who we usually bring things to when we visit. I understand for you to go you need an educational or humanitarian visa or some such thing. Was that the case? (Though you may have talked about that earlier and I missed it, sorry if I did!)

(And Killing Eve for the win...)

[tsuki_no_bara]

the cruise line took care of the visas, but i can't remember what kind we had to say we had. people-to-people, i think. there were a bunch of more specific options (academic, humanitarian, people-to-group or something), but people-to-people was the closest to "we're tourists and just want to eat cuban food and look at cuban buildings". i'm actually really glad it's easier for non-americans to get there and get around, because it seems kind of unfair to the locals to make it so hard for non-cubans to get there and spend money.

killing eve is so good. so weird and violent, but such a good show. sandra oh really deserved her golden globe.

[donutsweeper]

Oooh sounds like a great trip

[tsuki_no_bara]

it was! cuba's kind of a depressing place but it was interesting and i'm glad we went.

[countlibras]

Sounds like a memorable trip!

Cuba is not currently on my traveling hit list but it's probably because I don't like the idea of cruises.

[tsuki_no_bara]

it was definitely memorable! it was a good vacation.

you can always fly. it might be easier to get there by cruise ship, but that's not the only option. that said, it wasn't on my list either until my mom decided we should go.

[jola]

ha! we just saw the "Conan, without borders" show on Cuba last night. It's snowing here so i envy your tan :D

[tsuki_no_bara]

i didn't know conan went to cuba! how was the episode? and i may or may not envy your snow. slightly. maybe. (it's just really cold here. but sunny! but cold.)

[jola]

do you have Netflix? it's on there now

[halfshellvenus]

I think I missed that you were planning to go to Cuba! With your parents, I presume? Since they're closer to a good starting point to get there?

It was probably much nicer weather in Cuba this time of year than in Boston, so that was a win!

[tsuki_no_bara]

me, my parents, and my sister. the whole fam damily. :D mom booked the trip about a year and a half ago, so for the longest time it was just "yeah, at some point in the future we're going to cuba...." and then it was the future. them being in sarasota was super convenient, because my sister flew there a couple days early and went home a couple days after we got back to the mainland. and we could drive to miami.

the weather was fantastic! hot, tho. but sunny! we only got rained on once, and that was in florida. coming home was kind of a shock. i don't think i'm quite as tan as i was, but someone at curling on sunday commented on it, and that was a week and a half since we got off the boat.