And can you believe it, the sun is out too!!!
Finally 2009 is gone...
Surprisingly we don't feel as bad as one would expect after a few bottles of champagne. Guess we have finally slowed down on that drinking habit, or maybe we are just older and can take more?
Today is certainly not the day to analyze such matters.
There is a massage planned, to rejuvenate our tired bodies (feet). I hope my experience today will be more pleasant...
We order breakfast in the room, soft boiled eggs (better to be called un-boiled), juice, fruit and tea.
No champagne, no omelet, HEALTHY 2010, that was our (HIS) resolution.
I check my email and see a message from Emirates. I can check in soon, for my flight tomorrow, it reads.
TOMORROW?
What does it mean tomorrow?
We have 2 more days, don't we?
I am calling at Prince, for conformation and he believes also, that we have till the 3rd.
"But, how can we arrive in Portugal, after such long trip on the 3. if we leave the 3.?", I ponder.
"Oh no... Emirates is right (well...) and our plane is tomorrow!", I hear him shout back, accompanied by the typical Prince-life sound - click click rolls the blackberry ball.
Our hearts are sinking.
TOMORROW?
We had no clue. And we had so looked forward to 2 more days on the beach.
Aren't we a bunch of dumbos?
Luckily Emirates sends a reminder.
Most likely the front-desk would have called in time, tomorrow, to ask when we vacate the room. In time maybe, but packing in 5 minutes would have been a funny sight. And us boarding in bathing suits and sarongs even funnier.
Ce la vie... Fun over. Time to return to life and reality.
Prince is even more deflated by the news, he loves it here. He relaxed soooo much and looks like the sunny boy I fell for, once again. I guess we needed this holiday. And I guess, 12 days are way too short after such horrendous year. But bad news, Prince has already business meetings arranged in 3 days time. So no way of postponing...Shame...Just when the weather started to clear up...
I get myself into my last cute summer-sexy outfit for some snapshots and with sunken faces we make our way into the gardens and to the massage parlors.
For me a massage is much more, than just a rubbing of skin and muscle. A good massage therapist has a gift and can feel and heal. Can touch you and know, what must be fixed. Now, a gift like this does not come along often, but I believe it can also be studied. There are some great therapists, that are just well trained doctors, never-so less, good in their work. But to have THE GIFT of touch and heal is something beyond. And if you once had such touch, you know what I mean. There is no going back after.
So, no gift found at the Oberoi, but that is ok. I have my set of gifted hands back in Sintra. I will make sure to visit them, when back at home.
Prince agrees with me today, but he confirms, that yesterday was massage-heaven for him. So you see, it is all in the hands of your girl! (a luxurious spa does not mean all girls deliver a cloud 9 rhapsody)
We get back to our villa, the sky once again invaded by fat grey clouds and the phone rings. Yes Ganesh? Oh, I see...Because of the bad weather no chance of our planned romantic bonfire and BBQ on the beach. Of course, no problem...
2010, I though Saturn is gone? (the star-forecast read, that Saturn will linger a bit into the beginning of the New year... ohoh... LINGER?)
We don't mind much anyway. We are, by now, used to it.
With an air, heavily filled with sweet melancholy we slowly drift into the end of the day and our stay.
While at the beach:
My nose is buried deep into Jonathan's book and I come across a baffling paragraph:
Jonathan is now at the younger age of 18 and he is somewhere in the deep forest, fasting and waiting and looking for the moment of divine revelation. Or better - looking for the truth, looking for the HIM inside.
In the stillness of the wild (as still this can be) he starts focusing on his prayers, on his meditation.
"With each moment of silence, the energy of the world grew stronger. I could hear distant frogs by the pond, crickets and the occasional night bird.... The sound of my breath was overwhelming... my heartbeat was like thunder... A surge of profound gratitude filled my body. How could I be so blessed to have such perfect moment on Earth?... I spoke my prayers of gratitude to her (moon)... And then something happened.
As I stared at the moon the world in my peripheral vision began to dissolve... I hadn't consumed any alcohol or unusual foods. And I hadn't taken any drugs of any kind, nor had I anytime prior...
I tried to relax and took a deep breath in and out. I returned my gaze to the moon and the Earth around me disappeared once again. My eyes were open and I watched as slowly the sky, too, began to dissolve. I started to loose awareness of my body. Stars faded into the night sky; eventually there was only an infinite field of dark and the sacred white light of god shining through the moon... I became the light for a moment, the taste of a formless spirit. It was vibration, life force and joy- only for one moment. Then, unexpectedly the moon also vanished. The sense of divine energy dissipated along with it. Wide awake, my eyes still wide open, there was absolutely nothing in the world to see... It was as if everything dissolved...absolutely everything...
What happened next, I can only describe in retrospect. I experienced a moment without time or space or content of any kind. There was no awe, no love, no unity and no presence...
There was only an awareness so clear that there was no awareness at all. It was void, emptiness, it was more than infinite and it was eternal and beyond any dimensional quality. ..What existed was nothing more than awareness reflecting awareness: the absolute insubstantial substance of al being. it's pure silence, pure stillness... It is a radical emptiness....
Nothing is me, nothing is mine..."
NOTHING!!!??? It is so similar to my shamanic journey that I am taken aback. Does it mean, I actually experienced a higher truth? The meaning of it all, the deeper knowledge that everything is nothing. We are nothing and part of a bigger nothing, yet part of something beyond this nothingness is part of us. Nothing...everything...
" The melting of the world around me into the nothingness wasn't an optical illusion, but a revelation of the true essence of all things as expressions of the ONE SPIRIT beyond concept.... In the experience of NOTHING, I felt as I had realized EVERYTHING..."
Jonathan EllerbyTime to say good by.
Snufffffffff
It is officially our last night.
Our last dinner.
Booked at the most romantic sea-view table, we savor a perfect Saint Emilion (at last! Prince usually does not want a wine, that has traveled too far) and naturally - I must enjoy one more time the Scallops and to splash it a little, we opt for lobster as our main course. And, of course, followed, by my absolute favorite 'moon-stone' dessert.
Booked at the most romantic sea-view table, we savor a perfect Saint Emilion (at last! Prince usually does not want a wine, that has traveled too far) and naturally - I must enjoy one more time the Scallops and to splash it a little, we opt for lobster as our main course. And, of course, followed, by my absolute favorite 'moon-stone' dessert.
Half way through the dinner we must regrettably move tables, since our neighbors - a family of 10, has also brought their newest member.
Cute, adorable, sooo kutschikutschiiiiii, maybe 4 months old, he or she is definitely not happy about the food. The disagreeing sounds are confirming an absolute dislike and since we don't agree with the little one, we better move.
It was nice, when the hotel was empty!
Slurping some Muscatel in the sand, we say good by to our last Mauritian night.
Igor appears and we thank him for the divine menu last night. His face lights up with our appreciation, a lovely thing to watch, the eruption of a smile...
So this was our very first day of 2010,
And our very last night at the lovely Oberoi Mauritius
2010... Please, please...bring happiness, health and peace and calm...
And Oberoi - stay as you are and we shall be back!
AND
Thank you dear Universe,
Because I have found the most beautiful gift of all, LOVE
I love you Prince,
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