Day 1

Today we spent all morning in our dining sala eating a very nice breakfast and basically lazing around by the pool. The torrential rains from the night before had gone, and the day was looking pretty good. At lunch time the staff surprised us with some complementary pineapple.

Once we finished the crossword puzzle, we walked down to the beach. I took out a boogie-board after some stern warnings about the currents. It looks like things can get pretty rough, so we stayed waist deep. One thing we noticed was the abundance of trash floating in the water. I'm not sure if this is due to a culture of dumping trash in the ocean, or if we are still seeing flotsam left over from the tsunami. Also, there was a bunch of what looked like pulverized jellyfish. I thought Hilary would freak on that but, amazingly, it didn't bother her at all.

The water is the perfect temperature. Neither trash nor jellyfish goobers could get us out of the water until the sun started going down.

Off to get some dinner now. If it is anything like the great pad thai I had on the beach today, we are in for a treat.