I didn't bother getting up for breakfast that morning. I insisted taht my wife leave for her final 2 certifying dives. She reported back later that they had a breakfast buffet as there were now 10 people staying at the hotel at this point. To tell the truth, I was laying there for a couple hours, achy and having weird fever dreams and I was just too exhausted to reach over and get the bottle of Tylenol and water that were literally 3 feet away on the bedside table. Way too much effort required. I finally mustered the energy to take some around 10AM and started to feel a bit more human an hour later. I think my wife went for lunch around 1 after she got back but I was not up for it. When she came back, she said the restaurant staff were really worried about me and they sent me some ginger tea. They also wanted to send lunch to me (so I didn't ahve to leave the room) but I really wasn't hungry at that point.
I think I turned a corner that afternoon (what's in that ginger tea?!?) and was actually able to go to dinner that night, which was also our last night there.
Tapenade
Gado gado is an Indonesian salad of sorts but my stomach definitely wasn't up for that. Same for any kind of cream soup. However, I did get the Ikan bakar rica = spicy grilled fish. People in North Sulawesi feel they have the tastiest food in all of Indonesia because theirs is the spiciest. A common dish there is Rica-Rica - which is usually something grilled topped with a sambal of insanely hot chillies. This one wasn't so bad - it was barely spicy - enough to make my mouth happy and not upset my stomach.
The fish was local yellowfin tuna, cooked in traditional style, which means completely and thoroughly cooked. With white rice, shrimp chips and stir fried bok choy.
The next morning, I managed a little bit more:
mee goreng, ikan goreng (fried fish - I think this was more of the same tuna) and some kind of chicken sausage and onion stew.
Pineapple and dragon fruit.
This concludes the surf portion of this trip!! Next, on to the turf!!! Spoiler alert - I started feeling better, and then my wife caught it from me!
