A New Years Eve to remember!

A lot of people are very traditional in how they celebrate New Years Eve! I must say I did NOT have a traditional evening!
First there was a wedding at sunset. A Swedish couple had planned to get married here on the beach at Mabul. Unfortunately they lost all their luggage on the way with wedding dress and all. So what to do? Well, you buy 5 meters of white fabric, a golden ribbon and some safety pins and voilá you have a beautiful dress for less than 20$. He borrowed a shirt and a pair of troussers. Never mind about shoes! No-one wears shoes at Mabul…
The minister was one of the instructors from the resort who filled out the right paperwork and is now allowed to marry people so it is legally binding and the organ was replaced by the manager with a guitar! The flower girls were two of the local girls, the altar was two palm tree leaves made into an arch and decorated with flowers found on the island flanked by two upside down baskets covered with a white cloth and a bouquet of flowers and the guests were everyone staying at the resort plus whatever else came by! After the ceremony there were cocktails and that was more or less the end of that wedding except for the wedding cake (chocolate cake with icing) served after dinner (pasta Bolognaise)!

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After dinner the New Years Eve fun started! First there was a fireshow (except they forgot to get fuel so they used glowing balls). Three staff members took turns and they were really good. After that there was traditional dancing performed by three local members of staff.
Then the REAL fun started: The Miss Mabul Fashion show performed by all the local male members of staff!! It was hilarious and some of them were really scary in a way so I’m glad I’m not a man and had to figure out they were NOT woman…. They came in one by one and had to answer a question: “What makes you the most happy” and the three winners got a various amount of free dives.

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Then Rohan played guitar and sang and after that we had our very own DJ also an instructor to play music until late. When everybody started to dance and jump around the floor suddenly threatened to cave in so we all had to move the dance floor. Luckily the bar is still standing… Around two o’clock the music stopped and I was going to bed but instead I got dragged down to the beach where the party continued!

That was my New Years Eve! How was yours???????

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