All Good Things Must Come To An End

 Today was our last full day,  It has been a fast 10 days in some ways and a long 10 days in another.  Today was pretty chilly and cloudy all morning. This has been the coolest it has been.  It finally warmed up early afternoon but it didn’t last long.  I got in the pool this afternoon for a last time but it was chilly so I didn’t stay in a long time compared to the past week.  

The construction noise was really bad today.  They had to remove the concrete floor on one of the upper floors.  The used a concussion hammer to bust it all up.  It got so bad we went to our room for a while just to get a break.  That worked out well as Art sat and played his guitar.  It was soothing and comforting.  I am telling you his new song sounds really good.  I am excited for him to record it.  It is one you’ll want to put on repeat.  I will anyway.  We went back to the pool but the noise was worse so  we went for a walk to get away from it.  We were so surprised we found a huge mall. We had no idea it was there.  We didn’t  shop but we will remember it for another time. 

Our waiter tonight tried to tell us a joke.  The funniest part of it was we had no idea what made it funny.  He delivered the punchline and we just sat there.  Then he laughed and we looked at each other hoping the other got it and could explain it.  Nope…. Neither of us got it.  Art looked at me and said I bet it is funnier in farcy.  Then we really did laugh.

We had our covid test tonight and passed so we are good to go home.  .  

Best Massage Day

It has been nice to sleep in a little the past few mornings.  And sleep through the night.  Out neighbors went home,  I think a lot of folks have gone home.  The resort was pretty quiet all day.

We had a good breakfast.  We found a waiter that makes sure Art’s  breakfast is cooked just right.  I tried the French toast today.  It was just ok……don’t  think I will order it again though.  I will probably go back to my old standby….omelette.  

It was a little warmer than usual today.  I didn’t mind.  I like the heat.  I went this morning to get another massage and facial.  It was different than the last one.  I will say I LOVED it.  It was one of the best massages I have ever had.  It was so heavenly.  I think I was comatose a few times.  Not to worry my snorts from snoring snapped me back to consciousness.  When it was all over, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to get up I was so relaxed.  The therapist was super sweet.  She was worried about me.  At first she said I needed to relax……my muscles were so stiff.  They were likes bricks.  But that didn’t last long I was so relaxed I could hardly move. She also did some extra  reflexology work on me   If I was going to be here longer I would  definitely go see her again for another one of her incredible massages.

That really was the big deal of the day.  Other than that we just hung out at the pool.  We are getting pretty tan.  I will really miss the warn sun after we leave.  Tomorrow is our last full day,…

Throw Caution to the Wind

 Well that is what I did this morning.  I threw all caution to the wind and ordered something for breakfast off the menu that a.  Really isn’t  breakfast food and b. Nothing I would order anyway.  I ordered chicken enchiladas.  It is listed as the chef’s specialty on the breakfast menu.  It isn’t offered at any other time then breakfast.  So…… I did it.  It actually was good.  Art’s breakfast was excellent.  It was a great way to start the day.  I was either at the pool or in the pool all day.  Art was for the most part.  He went to the room to practice his guitar and get the floatie. Art learned a new song and it is sounding great.  Probably my favorite of all he plays.  

The poor floatie is on life support.  Art keeps blowing it up but it just refuses to keep air.  I can usually get about an hour out of it.  I think it is destined for the garbage can.  You can only perform so much CPR on it.

Hardly anyone was at the pool area for most of the day and then late afternoon it was packed.  I am not sure where everyone came from.  Tide is up so most of the beach gets covered with waves.   We watched two drunk guys taking pictures on the beach by a pile of rocks.  They were making all kinds of poses.  By the look of the poses, they thought they were pretty special and the worlds gift.  A wave came and in their drunk effort to get out of the way of the waves one fell down on the rocks.  Oh my gosh he yelled and cursed.  Not because he was hurt which he was but because he was bleeding and that would ruin the pictures.   He kept saying the rock hit his head.  In an effort to help him, the other guy fell down and rolled in the water.  I feel bad for them but it really was funny to watch it all unfold.   

I did get a free shoulder massage today poolside.  It was sure nice.  I am going tomorrow for a last massage at the spa. I am really looking forward to it. 

Lazy Day

 This will be a short post.  We spent all day at the lounger by the pool.  The day seemed to fly by for not doing anything.  I tried to zoom into church but it kept cutting out so I gave up.  I didn’t even try to put my floatie in the water today even though Art brought the pump to the pool.  The floatie is pretty flat. Maybe tomorrow.  Art went to the room to practiced his guitar and I just stayed on the lounger.  It was a super lazy day.  I think we all need one of those every once in a while.  

The weather was a little cooler for most of the day.  But by mid afternoon it heated back up.  We have really lucked out with the weather.  Tonight we are just chilling watching football.  We will probably retire early.  This relaxing is exhausting.  Hahaha. 

Aligning the Stars

 This was a different kind of day. The stars weren’t completely aligned but that is ok.  We had breakfast and instead of regular ham in my omelette I had turkey ham.  Not my favorite but ok.  Art’s pineapple wasn’t that great either.  It has been super good until today. It was just off.   Off to the pool we went after breakfast.  There were a lot of folks at the pool.  I went this morning for a mani/pedi.  Art says everything in life is either a learning experience or a good time.  My mani /pedi was a learning experience.  I won’t do it again….. I learned. It is surprising because the massage was so good. 

We went to lunch for the first time since we have been here.  We were hungry and it sounded good so we went to the open air restaurant.  It took over an hour just to get our food. Thought we were going to have to eat my arm before we got our food.  My burger wasn’t completely cooked and Art’s wings were way too spicy to eat. The fries were good though.

To top it off my floatie has a leak.  So sad!!! I am hoping we can fill it enough for me to use some more but if not …….oh well it was fun while it lasted.  I was lounging in the pool and all of a sudden I heard that old familiar sound…….NO!!!!  The tuba band was back.  They played for a while this afternoon.  Maybe they won’t come back and play again tonight…….with any luck.

Dinner was really good……. Ahhh back on track.   The weather has been just stellar.  Couldn’t ask for better.  Here’s for the stars aligning for a fabulous tomorrow. 

Malecon Day

 I knew today was going to be a fun one and it certainly didn’t disappoint.  Art had somewhat of a rough night.  His dinner didn’t completely agree with him.  They argued through the night.  So needless to say he slept in. He is much better and appears to have won the argument with his dinner.  He won’t be eating the duck again.    The neighbor kids even did better.  They were good until 5 this morning.  So that was a huge plus. AND an other plus was no tuba band today.  This has been a great day.  Now if the construction noise was gone this would for sure be the Garden of Eden.  Guess you can’t have everything.  I’ll take the construction noise over the tuba band every time.

We hung out all morning at the pool.  Art rested on a covered lounger and I was on my floating in the pool.  I had a great time visiting in the pool with my peeps. Seriously,  I was in the pool from 10:30 til 1:30. And the only reason I got out at 1:30 was because we went back to the room, got cleaned up and headed to the Malecon.  

We had a late lunch at our favorite restaurant.  Yummy it was so good!!!  Then we walked around to work the lunch off.  A lot to the shops are still closed.  We didn’t go to the barter market but I understand it just opened back up. Only went in a couple shops but didn’t buy anything…….  Not even shoes.  Surprising, the Malecon still had a lot of the Christmas decorations and displays up. 

I know there are a lot of jokes about women drivers but let me just share something.  We have taken a lot of scary taxi rides here.  In fact, I can’t think of a time that the taxi ride didn’t scare us…….. until today.  Today we got in the taxi to go to the Malecon and it was a female driver.  That is the first time we have ever had or even seen a female taxi driver.  BEST ride ever.  Didn’t scare us once.  It was great!!!!  The ride back was the usual…… our driver was a nice guy but……..we flinched more that once in fear. 

For dinner, we decided since we had such a big lunch we would have something small so we thought we would share a pizza.  The chef said we should each get are own because they are small but we decided we would share one.  Good thing,….. it was big.  Even if we were really hungry, we couldn’t have eaten one by ourselves.  It was really good but it was big.  

Tonight we sat on our deck and watched fireworks.  We have great seats!!!

What did you do today

  What did you do today you ask? I lounged in the pool.  It was a great day!  The weather was hot and sunny. 

We woke up pretty early.  Our little neighbors are early risers which kind of surprises me as they don’t sleep all night.  You would think they would want to sleep in past 5:30 am.   But it makes it all the sweeter to sleep down by the pool.  

The food was awesome today!  We had a good breakfast and a great dinner.  Lunch was cake.  I had chocolate cake and Art had carrot cake.  It was so good that we had some more tonight after dinner.

We hung out at the pool until early afternoon and then we walked down to one of our favorite stores.  We were so surprised.  I guess the supply chain is effecting them as well as they didn’t have much.  It was pretty disappointing.  But it wasn’t a complete lost.  I managed to find some sandals and a swim suit cover.  We stopped off at the farmacia on the way back.  It was cool the clerk didn’t speak English and we don’t speak Spanish so she used translator software on her laptop and we were able to communicate perfectly.  They are super careful here.  Masks are required everywhere and the store we went to had a thermometer that took our temperatures when we walked in and all the stores have sanitizer for you to use when you walk in.  It is working as their numbers are super low and flu and colds are pretty much nonexistent.  We went back to the pool area when we got back and I spent the rest of the time in the pool and Art napped on the lounger.  Such a splendid afternoon.   

You know I have talked about the tuba band and how bad the are and really they are but we discovered something even worse…….Hard to imagine I know but the hotel next door, where the tuba band plays, had a karaoke night.  But it had a twist.  It was  karaoke with rap music.  Holy Hannah!!!!  We prefer the tuba band over the rap karaoke. The open air restaurant had a flautist tonight.   Now that was beautiful.  We enjoyed it from our deck while we were eating our delicious cake. 

The hotel is currently under construction.  They are building a new building right next to us. It is pretty noisy but  fortunately, they don’t begin in the morning until after 10 and stop by 5.  The new building will be three bedroom suites.   

Totally enjoyed today…..Not sure what all tomorrow will bring but I am sure it is going to be another great day!   

Goldilocks Day

What a great day!!!  We spent all day at the pool and I spent most of the day in the pool.  Art brought the blow up floating chair.  He blew it up this morning with the electric pump and I was set.  It was heavenly just bobbing around most of the day.  We were a little tried when we got up as our neighbors have three small kids and one of them had several loud melt downs all night.  The dad was none to happy and he had a loud voice as well.  It was so nice to go to the serene pool.  Hope the little tyke realizes they are not taking him to the pool in the middle of the night no matter how loud he screams and he gets better sleep tonight. 

I met some really nice folks in the pool and I met a couple that is from……any guesses???  drum roll please……Green Bay.  We had quite the football chat.  He was taken aback on how much football I knew. But we really had a great conversation.  

There are a lot of folks here today.  There weren’t any empty loungers in our area.  I wouldn’t be surprised if the hotel is full.  But the weather was great.  A little cloud cover to keep it from being too hot but not so much you couldn’t see and feel the sun.  It was a Goldilocks day…….just right.  

The tuba band was back this afternoon and played on the beach.  They added a banjo and accordion player.  Sadly, it didn’t improve their playing but hey they are out there trying.  It’s just they are really soooo bad.  It is sad that they are so bad.  At dinner tonight they had a trumpet player and he was exceptionally good.  We could even hear and enjoy him from our balcony.  

The food today was all excellent. I am so full tonight I can hardly move.  Tonight was batted veg night otherwise know as Japanese night.  I had sushi and a lot of tempura shrimp.  Art had batted veg and stir fry.  For this who understand the batted veg joke I will say……. We went mad.  

Anyway, it was a great day and sad to see it come to a close but I am sure tomorrow will be another great day……ever so looking forward to it.  

We Arrived

 We did make it, I was just too tired to blog last night so I will combine the two days. Yesterday we got up before the bum crack of dawn…. 3 am.  The buddy picked us up at 4:30 and we were off.  The flights were as we would hope….uneventful.  When we landed here the runway was under construction so we had to wait about 15 minutes on the runway along with 8 other planes.  Not that big of deal until we all unload into the customs area at the same time.  It was crazy full!!  But the positive is by the time we got through customs our luggage was waiting for us instead of us waiting for our luggage.  We even got the green light to get out of the airport.  That was great because a lot of folks were getting red.  We got a taxi pretty easily and made it to the hotel safe with not to scary of a ride.  After six years, the hotel has changed a little but a lot is still the same.  Needless to say, we had some dinner and called it an early night.  We did manage to walk the ground after dinner.  The hotel next door had a tuba band.  The band had a snare drummer, bongo drummer, a guitarist and tuba player.  They all sang…….and overall they were terrible.  And I mean terrible. And they were back tonight……….and yes they were still terrible.  Most of the entertainers around here are really good but ummmmm not these guys……yikes!   We wanted to watch the championship football game but we kept falling asleep so we caved and climbed into bed.  Our suite is really nice.  It is a one bedroom 2 bath with a full kitchen.  I say full kitchen which it is but it has a tiny fridge.  No problem for us as we aren’t really going to use if for anything but drinks.  We even have a concierge assigned to us.  How fun is that.  He checks on us, it is nice.  When we asked where the ice was, he said if you want ice, just call me and I will bring it. 

Today we had a great breakfast at the open air restaurant.  Then we went to the adult pool area.  One of the improvements they have made is the pool is now heated.  Hallelujah!!!  I am planning on spending a lot of time in the pool.  While we were hanging out this morning a gal from the spa came around and I booked a detox massage and facial. First let me say it was incredible and I loved it but I have never experienced anything like it.  I was scrubbed , lotioned, and steamed about four times.  I definitely got detoxed.  I am planning on doing it again before I leave.  Crazy part is when it was all done I felt rejuvenated with a lot of energy.  I haven’t felt much energy as late so it was really a nice.  The service at the pool area wasn’t  very good but I think tomorrow will be better.

We had a a great dinner at the open air restaurant.  We watched the sunset and it was just beautiful.  Couldn’t have asked for a better night.  The weather was nice.  It was partly cloudy but that was great, it kept it from being miserably hot.  It was just right…..very pleasant.  The rest of the week is supposed to be the same.  Can’t wait!!!!!  Gotta go…….Art is playing his guitar and I don’t want to miss it.