Day 1 of full on gluttony

[cornerofmadness]

So the breakfast is all buffet here with more things than I can remember or count or could possibly try. I did sample new things like shaved salmon cured in beetroot (yum), a dippy egg in a potato bird nest, huevos rancheros, iberico ham, tons more of cheese, lots of fruit. (You can also get lunch and dinner at this buffet) Lunch on the beach (thai red curry tuna ceviche and tacos cameron) Dinner - the Italian restaurant (fried calamari, red wine braised beef stew over gnocchi, pistachio portfitteroles).

Mostly today was just swimming and sunning. The uncomfortable thing came when both Dad and SiL were bowled over by relatively small waves and I realized, yeah I can't actually GO into the ocean any more above my ankles because if I get knocked down, I can no longer get back up on my bad leg.

The pool bar pool was very nice, half kicked in the ass by noon (lots of dirty monkeys), did some water aerobics, eventually went to the quiet pool for a while and in the heat of the afternoon, came back here and wrote.

We went to the cabaret show tonight, very fun. I loved the young man doing a flying pole routine and on straps and the young woman with the hulu hoops dancing with nearly a dozen of them by the end.

New to me drinks: something with lemon, rum and cinnamon syrup, an elderflower gin fizz (I've always wanted to try St Germaine, an herbal liquor with elderflower, very nice) and we went to another resort to the snake bar (pictures another day) and I had something with papaya syrup and rum that was very very sweet and yummy.

Saw a lot of iguanas (pictures of them another day too)

Comments

[spikedluv]

A day of good food, sitting in the sun and hearing the waves, and writing sounds perfect to me! I'm glad you had a good first day.

[cornerofmadness]

It was nice, thanks

[under_the_silk_tree]

Day one sounds like a success. The food sounded delicious. Sitting at the beach seems like it would be heavenly right now. I hope each day is just as good!

[cornerofmadness]

thank you. I get incredibly bored sitting on the beach and I do not like the heat but I'm here making the most of it

[a_natural_beauty]

It sounds like it was a pretty good time! Standing in too far in water like that makes me nervous, too. I'm glad you got to drink some new drinks! ;-)

[cornerofmadness]

It was.

Swimming in the ocean was always a joy so I'm a little sad that's over

[a_natural_beauty]

Hopefully you can go back someday. I loved swimming in the ocean when I was on the outer banks NC some years back.

[cornerofmadness]

it will need to be a very gentle wave lagoon which do exist