so last monday we woke to more rain. i was feeling pretty puny, but didn't want to spend our entire tropical vacation indoors. we grabbed breakfast, but didn't bother getting dressed in any of our cute vacation outfits. so, naturally we ran into the photographer who wanted to shoot us with the toucan. nick and travis didn't snag a shot with the bird, but kate and i did. i love her picture!
we decided to head out to the shops just inside the gates of the resort. we'd heard rumor of a pharmacy there. so we grabbed our handy, dandy umbrellas {did i mention one of them was broken}, grabbed a shuttle, and rode down to the shops. there were little huts set up, but then there were gates into a square with actual shops. we walked around, but several of us weren't feeling too swell. we had to dash through the rain sometimes to get from one store to the next. we did finally find the pharmacy, but i wasn't willing to pay the price for the antibiotic, so we moved on along to the next store. we found another shop that had groceries. they also had halls cough drops, so i grabbed a couple packs of those and prayed they would soothe my burning throat.
it looked like the weather might clear up after a while, so we headed back to the rooms, put our suits on under our clothes, and headed out to look for lunch. it turns out that we ate a lot on this trip. we started living for our next meal ... which really wasn't all that appealing to me or kate. but it was what we had to do. so we did.
we found a really fun outdoor snack bar, so we parked it for a bit and had lunch there. it was completely covered, but was wide-open all the way around, so we had refuge from the rain, but could still enjoy the fresh air.
i wish so badly i had a picture of it, but there are the cutest little animals on the resort. they look like part deer {face}, part racoon {body} and they hop like a bunny! we saw them all over the place. while we were eating lunch one of them started sneaking up on the east side of the building. it saw the worker and slowly eeked backward. it snuck around to the north side of the building and had almost made it to a table with leftover food when the woman turned around and caught him. or maybe it was a her now that i think about it, because the woman said, "no, shoo chicka. shoo." she talked to the animal as if it was a pet though, so somehow i don't think it was the little girl's first time to take food from the snack bar. we had so much fun watching her.
after lunch we headed on down the beach and found another bar similar to the one by our rooms that we'd sat in several times. we stopped in there and played spades for a while. we were getting a little stir-crazy being trapped inside, but just tried to make the best of the time. it was incredibly nice to be away from work, not checking emails, etc.
the rain did finally stop, so we decided to take our chances and went back out. it was a little cooler, but we had seen several jacuzzi bars on the map, so we thought we'd sit for a while in one of those. and maybe we wouldn't even mind the rain if it came again, as long as it wasn't lightening. it turned out there was a jacuzzi bar just around the corner from us. it also turned out that jacuzzi just means "bubbles." there was no warm water in any of the jacuzzis we found. we did have a fun laugh about it, though. we finally just headed into the
this was the night we celebrated my birthday ... and somehow i got zero pictures on my camera or my phone. we ate at a really fun hibatchi grill. they lit up the entire bar all the way around! i've seen grills light the volcano of onions and even do other things on the grill {which this guy did}, but after all our plates of food were ready and he had them sitting on the bar, he lit a trail of fire from one plate to the next. we were impressed! i was really glad we all liked the food here the best of all the restaurants we tried since it was supposed to be for my birthday. and there was no embarrassing singing. just travis, nick, and kate singing softly when they brought my dessert. the rest of the table looked, but nobody joined it. it kind of made me laugh.
dinner was great, but by the end of our golf cart shuttle ride back to the room, i started feeling awful. i got a headache that just exploded and a bout of nausea to go along with it. i felt terrible because nick and kate were asking if we wanted to stay up and play cards or anything, but i couldn't find a bed fast enough. i jumped in a burning hot shower and fell into bed.
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