Nostalgia that i remembered

I remembered what i was being all nostalgic about a few days ago. I remember being about 13, living in the Peruvian jungle, buying bananas by the stalk. The stalks of bananas are really big, like, one person can hardly carry the thing. We'd get them still mostly green, and as they ripened, from one end of the stalk to the other, Phoebe, JJ and i would gather on our large, concrete floored back porch, and munch away. My all time favorite stage of ripeness was when the part of the banana nearest the stem would be the palest greenish yellow, and the tip would be blazing yellow. With such an abundance of bananas, we'd be able to be quite picky about what we'd eat -- the bottom quarter of the banana often got tossed, since that's where the "sticker" resides, and if you're unfortunate enough to get one of those bites of banana that seems to make your mouth all chalky and bitter, well the end of the banana is where that evil resides. I think one of us ate a banana in, like, two and a half seconds.
In related news, i'm very very much looking forward to this weekend. I'll get to stay with my honey and my kids the WHOLE TIME!!! Yeah!