We woke up at 5:30 but had to wait till 8:00 for breakfast. This was our first
time to be around a TV since we left the States so we watched a bit. There was
a channel that played CSI and the like in English all day. I felt a good bit
better and managed to eat a few pancakes at breakfast. After breakfast we
walked over to the beach. I dug a big hole in the sand and got in it. Carlos
decided to take advantage of the situation and turn me into a mermaid. I
protested that I should be a merman but I didn’t have much choice in the
matter.
This was my first time to be at an All Inclusive Resort. The
cost to get in included food / drinks anytime you want, nightly entertainment,
and access to pools. It is kind of like a cruise, it even has excursions you
can pay extra for. Breakfast and lunch are buffets and dinner is a nice meal
with a waiter if you make it to reserve your spot in time. If you don’t make
reservations for dinner it is a buffet just like breakfast and lunch.
So after playing in the sand a bit we went over to make our
reservations. It was about 10:30 AM and they told us they were already full,
that we had no choice but to eat at the buffet. They told us “better luck
tomorrow and be there to make reservations at 7:00 AM. Carlos, Hector, and I
talked for a bit and then met up with everyone else to have lunch. After eating,
everyone went their separate ways to take an afternoon nap. When I nap I sleep
for 30 minutes, tops, and then I can’t go back to sleep. So I woke up and
walked around exploring the resort. I caught some good pictures of an iguana
and I saw that the tide was out so I walked around on the rocks. Della called
wondering where I was just as I was walking back to the room. I was hungry from
the walking so Della went with me to get a burger. After I ate Della and I went
over and sat in lounge chairs. We had only been sitting for a moment when two
girls came up to us and struck up a conversation. They both spoke English and
we talked for over an hour. One of the girls was strikingly like our teammate
Lucky. She was Guatemalan like Lucky, had food habits like Lucky, acted like
Lucky, bilingual like Lucky, and lived in California like Lucky. They told some
amazing stories and said they were here for a big religious convention. We
parted ways when it came time for dinner and we never saw them again.
Della and I met back up with everyone for dinner. It already
feels like all we do here is eat. We all walked to the buffet restaurant
together but there was some construction blocking the walkway. So the entire
group went one way and Hector and one of his kids went the other. Rachel found
a table for us and we look all over but couldn’t find Hector anywhere. Rachel
asked me to call him but he didn’t answer. After about 15 minutes he called me
back and said he was on the second floor and almost done eating. We walked back
to our rooms. There was a beautiful lightning storm and Della and I watched
from our balcony for a while.
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| Mermaid Caleb |
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| View out the balcony |
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| Della on the beech! |
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