Sunday April 16, 2006 - Middle Eastern Bong Easter Celebration

On Sunday, following a visit by the Easter bunny, “C” and I headed northwest about an hour and a half to Polis. I had hyped this place up after reading extensively about it over the past couple months, and the town wasn’t nearly as nice as expected. We did find an amazing secluded 5 star seaside resort called Anassa. Following our oooing and awing, we made a little detour to the Bath’s of Aphrodite – a place where she “supposedly” bathed back in the day.









We rolled back into Limassol about 8PM and picked up Ian for dinner at a “new to us” Lebanese restaurant. We knew we had found a good restaurant when we walked into Lebanese music accompanied by a few people smoking a hookah. “C” and I ordered the Lebanese meze for two and again were met with an onslaught of food – the photo is of just the cold appetizers. We had to laugh at the absurd amount of food that came – it was delicious.

After ordering dessert, we were all tempted by the thought of sharing a hookah. We ordered one full of strawberry flavored what we were told was just molasses…”no tobacco.” I cut myself off after a few puffs of the quite tasty smooth strawberry goodness, leaving Ian and “C’ to take up my slack on the giant Middle Eastern bong. Hookah + Lebanese coffee + two bottles of wine + dessert made for the end of the perfect evening…until the next morning. Ian and “C” both rolled into work the next morning a little worse for wear. And after a little Wikipedia research, us hookah virgins were able to blame the less than peppy morning on the truckload of strawberry flavored tobacco from our little friend the night before. But it was agreed, however, that we would do it again in a heartbeat – it really made for a great time.