Huge Waves! - Day 7

When I got up this morning Maria was out with Sophie for a walk. 

Anthony and Sarah had walked a little earlier and seen turtle tracks in the sand so they went to go see them. 

While they were gone a maintenance guy knocked on the back door because he had seen our collection of bottles on the counter through the window. As I put them all in the bag he was holding he said “Oh, wow”. I think it translates the same in Spanish to “Holy shit that’s a lot of tequila”. 

Maria and I avoided talking about the gym today until we couldn’t avoid it anymore and the consensus was no gym today. Lol. 

The girls made cupcakes today, the Corey’s unit is extremely well stocked (food, booze, condiments) because their Owner is a gourmet chef and chocolatier so they even had cupcake cups!





It’s like a cooking show where the finished product magically appears! Lol

The waves were HUGE today! 🌊 

I went back into the condo to get Jay and tell him “the waves are huge, these are the waves you’ve been waiting for since the first year we came!”  So he came out to play in the waves with the boogie boards supplied by the resort. 

There’s this little lizard hanging around today like the one in Kiawah Island that bit my toe right after I told the girls not to be afraid of them because they don’t bite!

I lost my Maui Jim’s to a big wave, not even one I thought I would have lost them to. Maria, Sarah and I looked for a few minutes but the waves are big so it’s often white wash and stirred up sand. 

About 15 minutes later I found them!  I stepped on the arm, reached down and grabbed them and said “Oh My God!”  Lucky ducky. 

We saw a couple of rays in the water today as well, about the size of an 18” bike tire. 








Sarah tried boogie boarding but got flipped off on her first run. Anthony said “You are shit on that one!” She agreed “I sure did!” 

After a big wave Jay gestured that I might have lost part of my swim top. He said he can judge how appropriate it is by the amount of untanned skin showing. “If there’s too much white it’s like ‘release the hounds’”.  It’s not so much pulling the fabric back over but tucking in the boob!

My girls and Avery spent a lot of time today inside -  It's like all day we were like “where are the girls, they were just down here” they went to go get sunscreen on. “Where are the girls, it’s been like 30 minutes getting sunscreen” they’re on the patio doing homework.  I think the waves intimidated them a little. 

But right around lunch time they went in the water and spent 45 minutes playing in the waves. I made them put sunblock on their faces and asked if they put it everywhere else and while they said yes they got a bit pink today, Ava has a farmer tan, so I’m pretty sure yes meant no, I’m too lazy.  As she ran away she said “If anyone asks about lunch just tell them I wasn’t hungry!” Ok...as she ran like a crazy person for the beach.  Anthony had come down to let us know they had made some Nachos if we wanted any,  but now the 3 of them were in the water so we had to stay at the beach. Maria cooked bacon for Jay and I and I made us  BLTs. Later I figured out why Avery went in the ocean at lunchtime and then ate at our place, Nachos, because Sarah made delicious nachos on a grainy cracker type chip and I think she didn’t want to say she didn’t want them. 

While we were sitting at the beach a couple with two teenagers came walking up to the caution tape (I sit right in front of where they blocked off the sand with caution tape because it’s the best spot for shade with a couple of big palm trees). She said they live here full time and have for 3 years, they love it but it has its challenges “if we have a day where nothing goes wrong it’s a good day”. 

Jim has a massage booked for 4pm. By this time we’re in the pool and again we are the only ones there. 

Jay stepped on a pebble and was complaining and I was like  “ok, Princess and the pea”. 









Maria went to go get Stanley out of the fridge and dropped the eggs off the top shelf. Lol. We now refer to Stanley as a person, like Wilson from Cast Away. 







When we got to the Corey’s for cards and dinner there was a little kitten on their patio. Very friendly. 







We gave it some water and it drank for a very long time!

I have no idea why Maria was practicing the shocker, but she was doing it wrong. I know Anthony had said “wow, your shockers suck!”  But I don’t know what prompted it. 

Dinner was a mixed bag of chicken, hamburgers, salad and pasta. I asked Sarah if I could grab a water and Sarah said “of course, you’re not friends anymore you’re family”. She’s been waiting for a family dinner together. 

Then we played 5 Crowns. We finished the last 2 hands of our previous game and then made Jim move over one spot to start our next game! Lol

Anthony was winning the second game and commented how quickly you can go from zero to hero in this game. Lol. 

We were listening to Apple Music’s Mellow Rock for a while and then I switched to Arena Anthems which Anthony loved but got a little “metal” for me so then I switched it to a 70’s rock hits channel. 

I reached across the table for cards and Anthony thought I was going to knock over his wine so he reached for it and spilled it all over himself!

As you can see from Anthony’s phone it’s only 7:37pm. Anthony came out shortly after that and said Maddy and Avery were upstairs in their rooms and the twins were keeping their eyes open with toothpicks to watch Jessie. 

Maria was dealing hand 13 and she and I were about 6 points apart with me in the lead. We had played most of the hand when I noticed I only had 12 cards. So did everyone else, except Maria...so she redealt 13 but at 6 she skipped herself and then at 7 she gave herself one too many...so she had to restart again. And dealt herself 5 wild card so we all cried foul! Lol. I’m pretty sure she just wanted to keep her middle finger up!