Phase II
So we left you (or I stopped writing) after our first night
here....or when we arrived and entered the condo. It's really not bad, We have the penthouse, but now a couple of days in and no people to be
seen. We did find the pool.... it is a
very pretty pool. All to ourselves. We found one of the benefits of being some of
the only residents is that we can stand on our balacony and call to those of us
in the pool that it's time to come home.... (the pool is about a 5 minute walk
from the condo!)
Sunday started with our traditional mamosia's, and writing
of the vacation house rules! Rules are
important. They include stuff like,
singing, dancing and being kind. We
didn't have any tape to hang the rules, but The Russian McGiver used toothpaste
to hang them. Getting ready for the
beach will be fun on this trip as we have to motivate 5 adults and 2 tweens to
get moving and get out of here. While waiting
for the other half of our our group, the
music was playing the Cupid Shuffle....
You need to see the video. I can
not do it justice to try to use words to describe myself, Kosti and Popi doing
the Cupid Shuffle in the kitchen while waiting to head to the beach. Belly laugh fun!!!!
Off to the beach!
Knowing it's winter here we headed to what is suppose to be the most beautiful beach.... (winter usually means beaches are empty). We wanted to find Bahia Sucia. (translation ~ Dirty Beach). The name I think is to discourage folks to
from going to it! When we arrived in
the general vacinity, we were instructed (by the local police) to park about a 20
minute walk from the beach. Hmmmmm, 20
minutes in the sun and 85 degrees, not happening. Jay had a little conversation with the
officer directing us, he explained that it was Sunday and all the locals were
out. He suggested we come back "tomorrow" it would be empty and we'd be able to park in
the parking lot.
U turn and in search of another beach..... We made it to
Playa Combate ...... Pretty, lots of
people... good music. A bar down the
beach a ways for libations. Nice day in
the sun. On our way back to our car we found
a very fruitful (full) tamarind tree. We
love tamarind...... had to stop and pick some.
We did do some grocery shopping the night before, one of our little traveling buddies wanted steak
real badly. ~ digression ~ When met up with her, her sister and her dad
on saturday, the girls stayed with us as Sean when to pick up Tracy and Kosti
at the airport. They hadn't eaten and
wanted breakfast. We had met them in a
McDonald's parking lot. Great, both Jay
and I thought, we'd get McD's. Nope, she
announced she is on a health eating program, and had to eat good healthy foods,
not junk food..... okay.
We headed off to find somewhere where we could get a
"healthy breakfast". Found
IHop. The girls had steak and eggs. Jay and I split and omlette and pancake
breakfast. $50.00 later, the girls were
happy with their "healthy breakfasts" of steak and eggs. (they didn't eat the fruit however that came
with it!). They did eat the whole steak
and eggs.....
That night we had steaks for dinner. (healthy eating at it's finest!) We thought it would be fun to eat on our top
deck, under the stars. Tracy got eaten
alive by mosquitos..... never again is he eating outside! EVER! We were all tired.... early night for
everyone.
Monday morning mamosias!
I love Mondays, Mamosias, 80 degrees, sunshine..... Sean is a cooking machine, he made breakfast
for everyone. Kosti and I headed off to the pool. I did some laps (yeah right) and Kosti
practiced his diving moves. Lovely. Since we have two young students here with lots
of school work to do, Sensei Hendershott
called school into session. An hour and
a half of school work under his tutalage,
Once school was out, it was time start to corral the crew to
head off to the beach...... a few hours later we were out the door heading to
Bahia Sucia. I can't wait until you can
see the pictures. On our way to Bahia
Sucia we passed through the oldest salt flats in the western hemisphere. It was neat, kind of surreal. Kind of funny as well given Tracy's need,
affection and obsession with salt.
Around the same local was a very out of the worldly mud area. We needed to stop and explore. Walking across this was like walking in mucky
quick sand. Coulda lost a leg..... I did get some beautiful pictures.
Down the road there were some pretty pink, yes pink salt
corrals. And then out of now where,
Bahia Sucia! It is just a beautiful
little bay area, with warm aqua blue waters..... ahhhh.... Mondays..........
There is a lot more fun to come, but I need to take a nap,
so I'll continue later!
Janet
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