When you quiet the outside world, your own heartbeat may deafen you

Avani Resort and Spa, Bentota beach, Bentota. I see the ocean. We arrive at sunset so the sky is doing all sorts of breathtaking orange and purple things. Check-in takes forever, as usual, then we go stand on the beach and stare at the sky. Resort is nice, very new.

Dinner, drink, bed.

Wake, walk on the beach at sunrise, breakfast, swimming in the ocean, swimming in the pool, drink, eat, swimming in the ocean, swimming in the pool. Ashan and I made crabs. That sounds dirty, but it isn’t. Champagne and appetizers at sunset. Oil massage. Dinner by candlelight at beach end. The moon did funny things in that it appeared in an instant when the sun went down and then over the span of 2-3 hours, it moved across the night sky from overhead to over the ocean and then dipped below the horizon. The stars were also odd. All clustered overhead and to the east but not a single one to be seen over the ocean on the west. Stared at the ocean with mouth slightly ajar not believing that the sky could be so pretty, the sand could be so soft, the water could be so warm.

Ashan won't let us go to the Reggae Celebration at the Ganja Palace tonight. Life is hard sometimes.