{"id":11846,"date":"2005-04-16T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/?p=11846"},"modified":"2023-03-24T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T02:53:10","slug":"march-21-2005-you-had-to-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/blog\/2005\/04\/16\/march-21-2005-you-had-to-be-there\/","title":{"rendered":"March 21, 2005 &#8211; You had to be there."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>NOTE: This is a repost of the original pics taken on my birthday in Utila. Due to a horrendous server move, several posts of mine went bye-bye. This is one of them. I&#8217;m going to try to bring up the rest of pics in as chronological order as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My birthday in Utila was an incredible day for me. The people around were people I&#8217;d known for mere months or weeks, yet I felt oddly at home with all of them. Utila was a place that has become very dear to me because of the way I got to spend this day on the island. Without further adieu, I want to take this moment to post up the photos of this very special time for me&#8230;.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/mietsie\/TONY-B-DAY-400PX\/TONYSBDAY400RAF\/HondurasUtilaTonyBDay1.jpg\" alt=\"Me and the Tranquila sign\" title=\"Here's a pic of me in front of the sign for the Tranquila bar which rather ceremoniously mentions my Bday! Cool....\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/utila2\/UtilaBdayLotteTonyonGround.jpg\" alt=\"Lotte almost breaking my back\" title=\"Here's Lotte jumping on my back on our way back from Mango Inn. I fell back because she leaned too far, and we both fell. Luckily we landed on her ass and not mine.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/mietsie\/TONY-B-DAY-400PX\/TONYSBDAY400RAF\/HondurasUtilaTonyBDay4.jpg\" alt=\"Lotte and Pauline\" title=\"Here are the 'Dutch Bitches', Lotte and Pauline, who got all dressed up for the festivities. They really did alot to make my birthday special, and I so appreciate it. \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/utila2\/UtilaBdayLottePaulineTony.jpg\" alt=\"Lotte, Pauline and me\" title=\"Here's Lotte, Pauline and me on our way to Mango Inn for the infamous Bday dinner. \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/utila2\/UtilaBdayLottePaulineTshirt.jpg\" alt=\"Lotte and Pauline \" title=\"Here's Lotte and Pauline showing off their Bday present, which was the T-shirt I'm wearing. That's a picture of them on it, taken while they were scuba diving. \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/utila2\/UtilaBdayMietLotte.jpg\" alt=\"Mietsie and Lotte\" title=\"Here's Mietsie and Lotte on our way back from Mango Inn after dinner.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/utila2\/UtilaBdayTonyMaura.jpg\" alt=\"Me and Maura\" title=\"Here's me and Maura, she's a swiss girl who has the same birthday as me, so we both celebrated each other's birthdays!\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/utila2\/UtilaBdayTonyMauraMicaCristina.jpg\" alt=\"Me, Maura, Maika and Cristina\" title=\"Here's me with Maura and her friends, Maika and Cristina, all from Switzerland.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks again to Lotte and Pauline, for making this birthday special for me. I&#8217;m also very grateful to have been lucky enough to have such a great group of people around me for the day. Raf, Mietsie, Cil, Tony P and all my other Utila friends also made it extra-special. And thanks to Monica and the Tranquila staff for hosting the festivities!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Comment from: mietsie [Visitor]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Woohoo!!!<br \/><br \/>Finally you got the chance to catch up,<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;m reading all of it, you know,<br \/><br \/>so &#8230; good job captain!<br \/><br \/>x<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/log_b2\/index.php?blog=5&amp;p=141&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1#c1275\"><\/a> 2005-06-13 @ 05:29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: This is a repost of the original pics taken on my birthday in Utila. Due to a horrendous server move, several posts of mine went bye-bye. This is one of them. I&#8217;m going to try to bring up the rest of pics in as chronological order as possible. My birthday in Utila was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11849,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions\/11849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}