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3RD INSTALLMENT –
CONQUERING THE JACUZZI AND KILLING LIZARDS

On with the trip report… By the end of Day 3 (Tuesday) I was suffering with a terrible dilemma. What to do? See I wanted to try the Jacuzzi again (you know – sober), just to show I could. Anyway, wouldn’t some nice warm Hydrotherapy be good for the old rear? I was so excited about getting into the Jacuzzi – so I climbed on in – one foot at a time….. well actually only one foot. Didn’t make it past the ankle – ooooooohhhhh the burn!!! Sat there for a while contemplating my strategy – ok – turn on the cold water for awhile. Didn’t help much. Oh well – do I burn my legs to blisters or do I relieve my bruised and sore butt? Well – needles to say, the butt won. I did manage to scald my legs, but that pain helped me to forget about my aching bottom. See – strategy!! Needless to say – I slept on my side the whole rest of the trip. BUT – that’s okay – I’m on VACATION! Nothing and I mean NO THING was gonna get me down!

Day 4:

Okay – moving a little slower today. Decide to have breakfast and guess what? Hang out at the pool all day – again. I should stop here real quick and mention that the breakfast buffet and the Manglar restaurant was wonderful. Ate there almost everyday. Anything you can imagine – they have (well – almost anything). Created my own omelet most of the time, but the fruit was fresh and the other pickings were very good. It was usually our favorite meal (but then again, we normally never eat breakfast – so this was a treat). It should be noted that I decided to wear a new pair of shoes and just from the walk to breakfast – my heels were bleeding. Guess I should’ve broken in the shoes. Don’t freak – the walk wasn’t THAT long – it’s just me – Magnet for Disaster. Got to the pool around 10:00 am. Took our usual spot in the water and just vegged. It got hot pretty quick and I couldn’t wear my shoes to the bathroom so I either had to run (couldn’t – sore butt) or burn the bottom of my feet. HA! – I got smart, put on the shoes and wore them as slip-ons. I guess somewhere between noon and midnight, things got going and we just kinda forgot to eat anything for the rest of the day. Stayed in the pool all that time, talking to people and YES – DRINKING (UGH). You name it, we probably had it. Oh, and we made a lifelong friend in the bartender – Raul. Oh yeah, he just LOVED us. He loved Mark’s generous tips even more (funny how they got better as the night wore on). Yeah – Raul liked us okay – he saw us the next day and let us know what times he was working and where (yeah). Anyway, we notice that the amphitheater is jumping and there is food out (buffet style). Get out of the pool and head for the room, missing my white sarong and our suntan lotion (like it worked anyway) – have NO idea where they might be. Mark proceeds to run ahead of me and inform me and everyone else who cared to listen that he was drunk. So drunk, in fact, that he fell and rolled a time or two. No problem, up and going and back to the room and to bed. Day 4: Busted butt, Burned legs, Bleeding Blisters on both heel – I’M STILL HAVING FUN!!!!!!

Now Mark and I are not falling down drunks (pun intended). I know it must seem that way but the fact is that we hardly ever go out much these days. I guess the vacation and the freedom kinda got to us. (hehehehe).

Day 5:

Hangover. Let’s just eat breakfast and go back to the room. Now why do you suppose Raul liked us so much? Could it be the missing $40 from Mark’s wallet – the same $40 he had the night before? Oh where could it have gone??? Mark just can’t seem to remember what he did with that money. (UGH)! 2 strikes against him holding the cash! On the way to breakfast, we notice a few squished and quite dead lizards and other unidentified reptilian creatures (frogs perhaps at one time?). My guess is that Mark took out a few with that drop and roll he performed the previous night. Not a pretty sight. Just hope he remembers to take a shower when we get back. Hope they change the sheets in the bed. Don’t want lizard residue on me. GROSS!!!! Anyway since Mark and I are fans of Jim Morrison (The Lizard King) – I now refer to Mark as the Lizard Killer. NAH – I guess we should give him a fair trial. No-one actually saw him commit this heinous crime. And the little critters can’t draw us a composite – so I guess we’ll never know.
Back to the room for the rest of the day to watch movies. (Yes – we suck. We are in paradise – and THIS is how we spend our time. I KNOW!! – UGH.) It rained a little. Mark took a nap. I just had to conquer the Jacuzzi again. Later that evening we went to the Mexican Night Show. Had a great time. The buffet was delicious! Had red wine with the meal. Mark had water (the poor hung-over thing). The waiter was great. He replaced my wine each time it ran out and remembered to put ice in it for me. We had a good time at the show – but declined the tequila slammers down the throat (Gee – I wonder WHY?). Had our pictures taken with big sombreros, the works. We looked ridiculous. And we were SOBER too. It was so horrible that we had to buy it just to keep anyone else from ever seeing it. UGH! I sure hope we don’t really looked that bad. If we do – I’m taking up drinking full-time. Anyway – we went outside after the show – to the Amphitheater to listen to a band. There was lightening over the Caribbean and it was beautiful. I sat there like an idiot with my cheap 35mm TRYING to catch the lightening on film (yeah). Got the pictures back yesterday – Guess what? No frickin’ lightening – just night sky. Back to the room and in bed by 12:30. I know – I know – we lead such exciting lives don’t we? Hey – this was suppose to be relaxing – remember!

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