Beach, Catamaran, and snorkeling – Tuesday

It’s getting so close to the end of our adventure that I can hardly stand it! I mean we just got here right? The internet isn’t the best in our room but I was able to get a message to Kyle to make sure that everything was going good at home. He said that there wasn’t any issues so that’s good.

Today we plan to spend the morning on the beach, and then go on a catamaran ride that is for the afternoon and sunset. We stopped for a couple of photo op’s at the pool first. This first picture is a girl who was helping Daryl learning new dances. He was getting pretty good with them as the week went on, and the dancers kept giving him a hard time to join them on stage. And this one is us hanging out in the Infinity Pool

When we were heading down to the beach we saw what I thought was a huge iguana, but one of the other guests said that it wasn’t that big. Now I don’t know if they just thought that the ones that they have are bigger or what, but to me.. it was big. You could tell that he was used to being around people though because he wasn’t so scared.

Once we got to the beach we had someone bring over some chairs and drinks. I sooooo can get used to this! But I’m afraid once I step on the scale that it’s not going to be good! We hung out at the beach for awhile and looked for shells and cool rocks. We had the morning to kill and it was very relaxing. I laughed when I looked at my feet. So often you see pictures that people have with their two feet together at the beach. OK, check out mine. Can you tell that mine are on the left of the picture? We had some grilled food from the pool for dinner and then off to the ocean to meet up with our catamaran for the rest of the day. It was a double decked boat and it worked out really well. The sun was hot for the first couple of hours and it gave you a chance to get out of the heat if you wanted for awhile. After picking up some other people to join us on the other beaches, we went to a small cove to do some snorkeling. The water was so choppy but it was awesome! It’s been awhile since I snorkeled and I guess it’s just like riding a bike. How to do the mask and breathing came right back. We laughed so hard when we saw the beach though in this small cove. It was literally covered with all different shells and coral. My sister in law even was saying that while she was in this one spot that the shells would move a little bit and then stop. What they found out was the whole area was hermit crabs and when they felt someone move they all stopped. My brother was trying to see if he could coax one of them out of the shell, but even though they’re small.. they’re tough! As we were driving around we saw where Michael Jordan has his house but couldn’t find Madonna’s. We also found the Monkey Rock and it sure seemed like a good time to take a serious picture.

Then we saw some whales swimming not too far from our boat. I don’t know if what we saw was all the same one or not, but every so often you would see one come up and shoot water. It was so crazy how fast the sun went down and then we were back to our hotel again for the night. We all really enjoyed the ride and it was almost as relaxing as the beach was this morning. We needed to get cleaned up pretty fast because we were going to the fanciest restaurant at our Resort tonight. We weren’t sure if we were going to get in or not, but luck was on our side and we did get seated. There is only about 50 people that can eat there at one time and they have only two seating’s each night. I’m positive that we were out of our element but we gave it our best shot. I mean, how many times are you served caviar to start out the meal? It was fun to try the food that they were serving because since we had an all inclusive package, it gave you that chance to see what it all tasted like. Otherwise, yea.. I’m thinking that I’d be wayyyy too cheap to even think about ordering it. But like I said we gave it our best shot and we laughed so hard that our bellies hurt.