Exploring Day

For the last few days when I've woken up in the morning I've said to Mom "I am SO hot sleeping.  I don't like these memory foam mattresses, I keep feeling like whatever is touching the mattress is burning hot and I'm sweaty"..today when I woke up the corner of my sheet had pulled off the mattress and I came out and said "I know why I've been so hot at night...there's a plastic sheet on my bed!"  Oh my God, off it came, I'm sure that will do the trick for tonight.

This morning after breakfast and blogging and looking up some scenic drives online we decided to head out to Ragged Point and then to Bath Beach on the East coast of the island.  In the middle of all of that I played a game of Jenga with the girls, which was interesting - they wanted to take their piece out and put it beside them, not put it on the top.  I guess they never heard the song "You take a piece from the middle and put it on the top...jenga je je je jenga".  Also, Maria let the girls use her camera this morning so there were some interesting photos..

Sophie, the little director, said "can you move that towel (which was on the sofa arm) it's ruining the picture". Hmmm, sounds like her Mom?

Maria firmed up her vacation too..gotta love her..she's good to go for December so we're booking the house on the hill for the first week of Dec!  Google Casa de los Congos, Flamingo Beach - freaking awesome.  Just waiting to see if the Conrods can swing the second week and we will either book it for two weeks or book a house on the beach because Lea wants to be able to have easy access with the baby, totally understandable. 

We headed out this morning and went to Ragged Point, where there is east point Lighthouse, there was a cool look out point here.

After that we went to Bath beach, but got lost along the way and ended up way inland, but had a nice scenic detour.  We found our way to Bath beach, which was a lunch bag let down, it was described by the owners of the house we're in now as a nice beach with water as warm as Bath water..totally not cool.  

There was a tonne of seaweed and a beach that did not seem appetizing at all, so we left and went to Crane Beach which Leanne had wanted to go to last week and was described as one of the 10 best Beaches by Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (which you have to say with the Robin Leech accent).

We went to the Crane Hotel and Resort and paid 25 bajan (12.50 US) per adult to go onto the resort, but then you got a voucher for 25 bajan per adult to use for food on the resort, so it was basically free as long as you planned to eat on the resort.  Its a total 5* resort, and Maria said its where a radio station in Toronto does "Breakfast in Barbados"..but I would be upset if I booked there as a family because the beach was very rough and full of seaweed as well.  The red flags were up, which means no swimming because its too rough - which is typical of the East side of Barbados.  We were staying on the West side last week and the South West side this week.  Jay and Trev would have loved it here - the waves were huge and it was a lot of fun, and even though the waves were big there wasn't a lot of rip tide.  So even though it was a red flag on the beach we went in with the girls 1 adult:1 child ratio and had a great time.

That rock outcropping is actually flat just above the water and when we first got here there was a lifeguard in the water with a boogie board and people were jumping off the rocks and into the waves. 

The waves break way out, then break in a different spot every time close to shore.  There's a mild undertow that can knock you over when multiple waves come in at the same time.  One second you're standing ankle deep and the next almost chest deep.  Tons of fun!  But not for the faint of heart.

At one point going through Maria's photos for the day I said "it's a good thing you came, I have way more pictures of the girls. I'm usually telling them to get out of the picture so I can take the scenery!"  I've airdropped some of Maria's photos and put them in the blog. 

We finally pack up and stop on the way home to buy . . . Tequila and limes.  And a few other non-essentials like bread and juice and fruit and vegetables.  These would be bottles 4 and 5.  We are on day 4 and Mom hasn't broken into the tequila yet. 

We came home after spending the afternoon at the beach and I jumped in the pool before we even unload the groceries.  I was very, very hot and the cold pool water was just what I needed.  Mom had a shower, then a baby beer,  a couple of Zantac, then she was ready to attack the tequila.  The tequila sours are so good.  She has to add a bit of sweet to hers, she doesn't like it as sour as Maria and I do, but I think she enjoyed them... a short time later Maria found her dazed and confused trying to remember what she was doing in the kitchen.  Amateur.

 

We had leftover stuffed peppers for dinner - briefly we thought about a salad but then filled up on booze so didn't need it - and went to bed at 8.  A typical day!