My Life As I Know It: Good Morning, Paradise

Gorgeous view from our balcony this morning

We got a good nights sleep and were excited to start the day. It's pretty easy to get up in the morning when you're in such a beautiful place.

Little lizard outside our hotel

First, we headed for World Cafe for breakfast. We were greeted at the door with mimosas. Seems like we are given champagne everywhere we go. We had a quick buffet breakfast and headed for the beach.

Alyssa told me that she wanted a day where we could just lay on the beach all day and do nothing else, so that's exactly what we did. We got down to the beach around 10:30am and didn't leave until 3:30pm. We definitely got a lot of sun. We went to the pool for a little while after that. There was a float up lounge/bar in the pool so we hung out there for a bit and mingled with another couple from Jacksonville, FL.

Well, it's not a good trip until something embarrassing happens. As we were leaving the pool we had to cross the grass to get to the sidewalk by the beach. We were jumping from tile to tile across the lawn. Alyssa jumped over to the sidewalk and then heard a thud beside her. Yep, when I jumped my wet feet slipped out from under me and and I landed flat on my back. To make things worse, there apparently was a baseball umpire staying at the resort because just as I hit my back a man across the pool repeatedly yelled out, "Safe" waving his arms back and forth in front of him. Alyssa was laughing and all I could do was laugh as well. Looking back, it is pretty funny.

We walked out on one of the seawalls that protruded out from the beach. There was a little bench at the end that we sat on for a while and just watched the waves roll in. We watched some crabs shuffle around the rocks below. One actually crawled into a styrofoam cup to hide from us. Just as we were leaving Alyssa spotted something. deep in between two giant rocks that were part of the seawall was a piece of paper. I reached down and grabbed it. It was a slightly weathered $50 bill. We've had some really good luck ever since we had that flight debacle on Monday.

We went back to the room, took a nap, and got ready for dinner. The resort has numerous international restaurants to choose from. We went to the Jamaican restaurant last night, so we decided on Italian tonight. The food was great. Bruschetta, tomato mozzarella caprese, and spicy tomato penne for Alyssa and calamari, ceasar salad, and linguine for myself.

All dressed up for dinner.

After dinner, we did some sidewalk shopping. Alyssa picked out a painting that was made by a local artist and paid for it with the cash we found in the seawall. We still had some cash left after the purchase so we tried out our luck at the little casino. We jumped on a black jack machine and played for a long time. We broke even, so we were both pretty happy. Then we played a little pool in the gaming center.