The Search For A Proper Dirty Martini

     Today we pretty much did nothing but chill on the beach get a massage and eat seafood. At the end of the massage without asking they did a thing called threading where the lady uses a string and twists it pulling out the hairs on my neck,. it was so painful. Around sunset we had to move our chairs because the resturaunt was setting up tables on the beach for dinner. So we returned to the room took showers and went on a seach for a dirty martini.

     Ever since we went to the Martini Bar back in Vientiane, Laos I have been spoiled by their goodness. Asia is not exactly the place to get classy drinks but this place is Laos really set the bar to high and everything since has dwindled in comparison. Since this island is pretty ritzy I figured we had a good chance of finding a good one at one of the fancy resorts so we took off down the beach on a mission.

     We stopped in at all the resorts and bars on the beach looking at the menus laughing at everything and trying to explain dirty martini to the Vietnamese bartenders who had no clue as to what we were talking about. It was pretty hilarious, us in board shorts and no shirt walking up to the big money resorts where couples fine dinning sat and we asked for dirty martinis acting high class with no class at all.. Finally about 15 minutes walking down the beach we came to the Spice Garden another big resort, where a canadina guy named Kieth mannaged the bar and resturaunt, we did we finally get a martini from him..
    We talked for a while and he told us there was no olives on the island and our search was just never gonna lead us to a dirty martini. Instead he told us he could make a mint chocolate martini that he said was really good so we took his word for it and got one as well as the Pork Cordon Blue which was a deep fried pork wrapped around ham with motzerella cheese in the middle which was awsome.

   We hung out for a while drank our martinis and talked about life and our trip. It was a great conversation and Chris and I felt really connected in our hopes and dreams for future events to come as well as our plans for work and living upon our return homme. Afterwards we headed back to Eden and played pool for a while checked out a bonfire on the beach and went to bed.