(Written on Day 4 of my jolly holiday)
Well its 6.00 am again ... unfortunately
the weather only marginally improved. I
probably got a total of 2 hours in the sun yesterday. It was really weird actually; it would be
baking hot sun one minute and like Armageddon the next!
One of the lovely ladies I met here that I
told you about in another post, Julie, came up with a genius idea the first
time it bucketed down ... "Let's go in the Jacuzzi! We'll be wet from the
bottom up anyway, so the rain's not gonna matter!" I thought that was rather inspired myself!
Genius, bloody genius. We settled in, ordered a couple of strawberry
daiquiris (well it was 11.30!) and watched the world go by. She's fab Julie. Wonderful sense of humour. We actually just giggled and drank daiquiris
for an hour. Lovely.
That evening, we were all going on a sunset
cruise. The hotel puts on a cruise at
4.30 every Friday night for customers.
When I was here last year it was only for return guests but I believe it’s
open to everyone now. It's actually (as
you would imagine) just an excuse for a piss up. I went on it when I was here last year, although
it was my first time at the resort, I pulled some strings as you do and it was
fabulous. A mini bus picks us up and
drives us 5 minutes down the coast to the marina where we catch the boat. The boat then sails back up the coast to the
hotel's bay and mores there while much drinking and merriment is had by
all. It also includes the obligatory
'formation' dancing to tunes like 'The Dollar Song' (if you've ever been to the
Caribbean you'll know that one) and of course, watching the sunset.
Last time was fabulous. The weather was amazing and the sunset beautiful. This time ... it pissed it down the whole
time. I don't think I could have got any
wetter if I'd swam alongside the boat – the rain was coming in horizontally! I was a bit disappointed at first, more so
because I'd just spent half an hour trying to dry my hair straight, combating
the mad humidity. However, we still had
a fabulous time (I've laughed so much on this holiday) and I really enjoyed it,
in spite of the wet. Everyone is so
lovely here, I’ve met some wonderful people - no wonder 85% of the hotel's
business is from returning customers.
Boy was the champers and rum punch flowing
on that lil trip. So much so that when
we came into the bay, they took the boat in as near to the shore as possible
and one of the bar men waded out from the hotel with another box full of
champagne! I love that ... completely
fabulous.
When we got back, despite being slightly
bedraggled and rather damp, our little gang headed off to the Club House for a
BBQ which was unbelievable yum. A meat
eater’s idea of paradise.
I drank far more than usual last
night. When I realised that I really
couldn't get any more 'thin' liquid down me ie wine, I had an inspired moment
and went back on the strawberry daiquiris. However, when the second one came,
it was so loaded with alcohol that I couldn't taste the strawberry ... that's
when I felt a bit woosey and decided it was time to go to bed.
Today, I haven't looked outside so I don't
know what the weather’s doing yet.
Hopefully it'll pick up. My 9 am
treatment is an Aloe Vera Body-wrap which should be nice. I booked it because I thought I would have
had two days sun by now and my body might need a bit of a cuddle from the aloe,
but hay ho, it'll be nice anyhow.
Yesterday's lime and ginger body scrub was
good. I thought my skin was already
exfoliated to within an inch, but after having had that treatment ... it really
wasn't. It's wonderfully smooth now and
I still have some of the false tan left on too!
Not too shabby even though I say so myself.
Right lovelies, that's me for another
day. More tomorrow, until then, be fabulous.
Lots of love
Jx
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