Jim and I occasionally get to go to the beach alone and it's quite peaceful and refreshing! However, how we laugh at how our understanding of "alone" has changed!
You see, it takes 9, count 'em ... nine people for us to go to the beach "alone!"
Here is most of the group -- and a bunch of the neighboring village kids. (It's "magic" -- out comes my camera and out come the kids!)
For the two of us to have a peaceful day at our beach hut, we require assistance from:
1 --Jide, our driver
plus 4 -- a driver and three escorts, two of them armed
plus 2 -- Ola, our caretaker and his assistant, Sampson
plus 2 -- our chosen assistants, those two precious kids Gbenga and Ishak
That totals 9!
The amazing thing is that it actually does feel peaceful compared to entertaining the scores of guests we usually take along for the fun!
We swing back and forth between feeling total shame for requiring the attention of so many to feeling totally blessed for the privilege of having their help and the joy of providing income for all of them!
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