We had another fairly relaxing day. Actually, that makes it sound like we've had days here that were something other than relaxing, and that's certainly not true.
We slept in, till maybe 10, and when we finally woke up, we actually considered staying in bed all day. We have enough books and magazines, and room service is just a call away, after all. But I didn't want room service right then. I wanted a ham and cheese croissant from Must. And would you believe that my wonderful husband - the same one who spent all of yesterday (his birthday!) taking cafe of me after my little incident in the restaurant on Tuesday night - actually got up, got dressed, and went and got me a ham and cheese croissant from Must? He brought it back, just like room service! And I ate my breakfast in bed.
But after that, we did decide to go out and explore some more. In fact, we were looking for the disco. Obviously, it wasn't going to be open this morning, but we hadn't even figured out where it was yet. We never did find it, but our mission did lead us on a nice little walk around the resort. And when we were all hot and sweaty from that, we made our way to Sun Bar. It was probably noon at the time, and we stayed there all day.
We switched between the pool tables and the bar shuffleboard. We ordered Jim Beam and Coke (only because they were out of Jack Daniel's!). We took turns going across the hall to a little deli called Lime, where we got sushi to bring back into Sun Bar with us. We saw a lot of people come and go, and we just stayed there, watching people come and go, challenging each other to this game and that game, listening to their play list, which we realized after a couple hours, was made up mainly of Phil Collins/Genesis, Sting/The Police, and Elton John. We heard the same songs over and over; fortunately, we like that music quite a bit!
We also became friends with Alfonsa today. She was our waitress for the early part of the afternoon (she goes home at four), and we got to talking to her. Now, we don't speak very much Spanish, and Alfonsa speaks even less English; but, working with the words we do know and some hand motions here and there, we were able to carry on quite a conversation with her. And she even taught us a bit of Spanish.
Well, like I said, she left at four, and we left at five for first dinner. We decided to try out the pizza place, which was just down the hall. We ordered one with shrimp and pesto, and it was absolutely delicious.
Having nothing better to do after dinner, back into Sun Bar we went. And we were there until just before 10, when we decided to go to Prime Steak House for second dinner. Prime is one of the restaurants out toward the pools and beach, and it was quite a hike over there - this resort is huge! But it was so worth it!
This was a very nice restaurant (although still casual-dress), and it was decorated in a very modern style - very different from the other two restaurants (Samba and Marina) that are also by the beach. It is also inside. Thank you, A/C! We did not have to worry about fainting in this place!
Right after we sat down, they brought us a sort of sampler platter, complete with stuffed mussels, fried cheese, spicy shrimp, and little chicken wraps. We loved some of it so much, we ordred more appetizers! They were out of the mussels, but we got the spicy shrimp and the chicken wraps; and we must have looked a lot hungrier than we were because both Brandon and I got a plate of both of these items to ourselves. And then we still had to eat dinner!
Brandon ordered a steak, and I ordered lamb chops. Both meals were delicious (as usual!), and they were served on these really cool skillet-type things. We were so, so, so full, but we just kept right on eating. Such gluttons, we are!
When the meal had been cleared, they brought us dessert - they didn't even ask; they just brought it right out! It was a little tray with five little shot glasses, each full of a different flavor of custard - apple, creme brulee, meringue, and two chocolates. Yum!
When dinner was over, we went out to the beach. The waiter had told us to take our bottle of wine and our glasses with us, and we thought it would be nice to drink it out there under the stars. We found some lounge chairs, and we just rested there. The night was clear, and there were so many stars. The ocean was loud, but it was peaceful. I could have slept there.
But instead, as the fatigue crept up on us, we began to make our way back to our room. We're tired, but we don't want to go to bed. Tomorrow is our last full day, and I don't think we're quite ready for that to be here.
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