Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Last night we went to bed at 10:15, fell asleep quickly, and woke/got up at 6:15.

We had breakfast in the same buffet close to the beach.

After, we found a cabana with chairs on the other side of the restaurant. I’m staying in the shade but still tanning. I picked up towels with our cards and we used them to claim our spot for today.

A guy came around selling boat trips and we listened to his spiel for several options but declined in the end.

We had lunch in the buffet again.

This last one is ice cream (sometimes vanilla but often rum raisin) with a muffin.

Never a problem finding an empty table, more so here than the buffet by the lobby.

Back to the beach until about 2pm when I returned to our room.

More photos of the grounds:

By the pool I saw these guys cutting down palm tree branches.

I called the front desk and the muchacho returned within 5 minutes, changed the 4 AA Duracell batteries on the safe and tested it to make sure it worked. I worked on this blog for about 90 minutes before returning to the beach.

It rained very lightly for about 5 minutes, wouldn’t know it was there except a few drops came into our shelter.

I finished reading Ali Hazelwood’s Check & Mate on my Kindle. It was a nice read but many of the chess parts were a little ridiculous.

We left at 5:30, exchanged our towels for our cards and it was a short walk back to our room.

I got slightly burned on one shoulder so I’ll have to be more careful tomorrow.

We had a 7:30 supper reservation at Tanuki the Teppanyaki restaurant. While waiting for the tram half a dozen 30-something girls arrived and were the very definition of rude Americans, very noisy and full of themselves and possibly drunk. At the restaurant after a short wait for our seats, they put on the usual show cooking on the large griddle in front of 8 of us.

The food wasn’t the best though the lady sitting on the other side of me tipped two of the workers what looked like $20 each.

We walked around a bit and stumbled on a children’s party in the theater, with young kids waving balloons and singing.

We returned to our room by tram and went to bed right away.

 

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