Day 7 - short boring day

 Sorry peeps, we didn't really do anything today - we ate some more, we sat some more at the beach, then we ate again, then we sat again, soon we'll eat again and then we'll go to bed.

The only picture I have today is one of Jay's butt cheek imprints on the frosted glass door because even as a very successful adult male he's still a child, lol.

Oh, and these 2 pictures of the 3 of them kayaking to go and see the big cave one cove over. (only 1 was worth posting)

Dinner was a buffet tonight in the courtyard with a live band.  Paige waited for the homemade ice cream to come out, got impatient and ordered ice cream at 10Eur a bowl,  the server came out and said ice cream should be out in 10 mins and is included in the buffet, ice cream came out in 18 mins (2 mins after Sophie gave up and left) and ice cream was lemon and a mystery fruit (no chocolate).  Paige was pissed.

Good night!

Day 6 - Mattinata is a ghost town, it's Riposo time.

I set my alarm for 8am this morning and woke up 2 mins before it went off.  Sophie wanted to get up and go to breakfast for 8:30am and then get to the beach so I called her and she said 9am worked better for her, lol.  So I called at 9 and she said she'd get up and get ready and come down.  When she arrived she said "where did that Coke Zero come from?"  The mini bar. "What mini bar? Paige had a Coke Zero last night and I asked her where she got it and she said she wasn't telling me" Oh really, I called up to your room and told Paige that anything in the mini bar is free to drink, lol, and told her it was in the dresser with the coffee maker on it".

Jay came down to breakfast with us, Paige kept sleeping.  The breakfast was a really large buffet, really anything you could want with nice fresh fruit, pastries and yogurt.  The jam is so loose it is dispensed in a jar with a pump and spout but it was good!

After breakfast we went back to the room to change for the beach.  I told Sophie "I'll go with you, I want to see your room and.." "we're not switching", lol, ok, "No, we're not switching" but now I'm wondering just how much better this room is!

It's better.  It's larger for sure but also on the second floor so I don't really care and definitely don't care enough to go through the trouble to switch.

What I was going to say was "to see your room and see if Paige is up".  Paige was up, she was ticked we went without her and said she thought we were waiting for her for breakfast.  I said if you get ready now then I'll go with her or call Dad and he will go back with you because Sophie and I are going to the beach.  Then I called Jay who said "I literally just got off the phone with her and told her I would go with her to breakfast" huh, she failed to mention that.

At the beach I'm always asking everyone to put on sunscreen.  I asked Sophie do you want the Neutragena that's 100 or the zinc one that's 30?  She choose zinc.  She chose wrong.  When Jay came down I said do you want the 100 or the 30 and he said "Not that stuff it's like smearing on wallpaper paste.  I might as well cover myself with drywall putty". lol

As soon as Jay arrived Sophie immediately recruited him to go for a kayak around, they ended up on the rock formations that there was a picture of yesterday because we saw some kids cliff jumping off of it when we were at dinner.  Sophie couldn't get up the rock, it was too slimy. I think was the main issue, she needed Jay to help her up but he had to stay with the kayak - so I think they might try to swim out later if they're brave (if she's brave).

I want to go and do something and the girls want to get goggles, which you can't buy at the store in the resort - they sell fins and water shoes but not goggles.  Also I want to pick up a lanyard or pouch for my phone so that they can take it out to the water on the kayak and get some pictures looking back at the beach  - so we all decided to get changed and go into town for lunch.  

Jay and Sophie went a little ahead of us and I took some time gathering my stuff, the towel to take up to the hut, my garbage, etc so as I was walking up to the elevator the doors shut - Paige was in there with a family.  I decided to take the stairs up thinking it was about 5 flights.  It's 7, the last 2 are a bitch.  I rounded a corner thinking "this must be the last" nope it was a window and not a door for the elevator and then I rounded the next corner and it was another window and I muttered "jesus christ" and finally around the next corner was the elevator door and Paige pops out of it, alone.  Now I know I did not sprint up those 7 flights of stairs so she said "where did you come from?" I took the stairs. "why?" because it's the only exercise I'll get today - where did you come from?  "Yeah so I got stuck in the elevator when the family left they took a long time and the elevator closed and then it went all the way back down and then all the way back up again".

When we got to the room I had a quick shower - have I mentioned that the door to the bathroom is a pocket door, made of frosted glass?    I got undressed and bent down to look under the vanity and Jay said "what are you looking for" and now I know he's looking at me through the frosted glass and I chuckled, which hea heard which meant he knew I realized he could see me - he said "I can't see details but I can see tan lines", lol.  I'm looking for the conditioner that I took from the place in Rome!  Do people in Italy walk around with frizzy hair?  No where has given us conditioner except for the 15ml bottle in Rome - I have about half left but the Girls absconded with it later in the day so now I have none.

It's a 20 minute drive along the water mostly on an elevated road, pretty drive.  For nothing.

Have you heard of Riposo?  We can only assume that's what was happening in Mattinata, a rest period mid-day where everything closes.  Otherwise, the town suffered some apocalyptic event where no one was on the streets, all the windows and businesses were shuttered (even the grocery store and pharmacy).  In case they know something we don't we'd rather be ignorant so drove back to the beach.

Jay stayed in the room and the Girls and I went to the Beach Grill and ordered lunch, they have a nice restaurant there with light options - the girls each got the same caprese sandwich from yesterday and I got one with salami (I ate half and saved half for Jay) and sundried tomatoes. We also shared burrata and bruschetta and Paige got an ice cream treat before heading down to the water.

Jay came down and joined us in the beach and the Girls went in the water for quite a while, I'll be surprised if they don't get burnt because there was just the one sunscreen application from this morning (but really that's the equivalent of putting on a shirt).  Jay poked me and said "See, they can get along" - they can, and they can't.  Just like any sisters who spend A LOT of time together.

The girls were telling a story about how they were getting absolutely rocked in the waves when they were sitting on shore and I said "the undulating waves that were gently lapping at the shore?" Mom, they were big waves! "There was not a crest on those waves".  They were big from our angle "Ok, well I have pictures you want to see them?"  Oh, well, they seemed a lot bigger at the time. lol.

After another hour or so at the beach we came back to the room - I did some work, got the blog started, got changed and Jay suggested we go to the lounge for a drink before dinner.  It's about 6:30pm and the restaurant doesn't open until 7:30pm so we go to the Reception and ask which lounge is currently open (because a lot of them close at 6:30pm) and they point us in the right direction.

50% Italian Glow Up - linen shirt with his regular shorts and lulu slides. Progress. Except for our steamer got smoked by the wattage here and so we tried to steam it in the shower but there are still creases.  Oh well.

The girls met us just before 7:30pm and we headed down for dinner.  There is the same menu as last night and just the Specials change which are better tonight.  Paige and Jay got the fusilli special with bacon and a hard goat cheese and I got a tomato based pasta that Paige was debating and just told her she can taste them both and decide which one she wanted (she decided on mine), Sophie got pasta with butter and parmesan (but no parmesan came).

While we were at dinner Sophie got an email from Laurier, she earned an annual scholarship of $4,000 a year for having an entrance average over 95% average. She has to maintain an 82.5% average each year to maintain it year over year but if she can then she gets a total of $16,000 scholarship.

Paige's main focus today was getting gelato (or ice cream), so when dinner was done she was all over ordering the homemade ice cream again.  At one point she had a drip of chocolate ice cream and wiped it on her leg.  I said "You have a napkin, you don't have to wipe ice cream on your leg" she said "I didn't, I licked it off my hand and wiped saliva on my leg" yuck.

As we were leaving, Jay and Sophie in front, approaching the sliding glass door Jay said to Sophie "Watch out for the glass door" (which was open) and she stutter stepped before realizing it was open already.  Paige quipped "For someone getting $4000 a year you'd think you'd be smarter".  Jesus that one. I feel like she's her mothers daughter sometimes, lol.

Bed time - it's almost 10pm.  We are meeting for breakfast at 9am and a repeat of today except for tomorrow there is dinner in the courtyard and there will be no useless excursion to the local ghost town.

Day 5 - Travel to Puglia

I set my alarm this morning for 8am and slept right until it. I woke up the girls and Jay just after 9am because we have to check out and get on the road by 10am. I had to pack up, have a shower, get everything off the line, wake up the girls, check the bathrooms, check the fridge (I asked Jay before I got in the shower to just make sure all the garbage was in one place and pack up the rest of the food), make sure the girls were up, make sure we left the keys, make sure the girls were up and finally head up to the car.

I forgot my phone.

I realized really quickly but when we were out of the parking area and about 50m down the street.  These streets are narrow and not really condusive to 'turn around and get it' so Jay pulled over as best he could a little ways down and I got out and walked back.  Thankfully when I left the keys on the dining room table and pulled the door closed behind me the door didn't lock so I could get back in (I knew in advance it wasn't locked), I just said to Jay "if you need to move just go further and pull over again, I'll keep walking this way until I find you".  The only way he would have had to move was if a bus came by and couldn't pass him but he was in the same spot when I got back.

It wasn't too long into our drive that Sophie complained about being car sick, then Paige complained about Sophie complaining that it was making her car sick (they have zero empathy for eachother but it's mostly because one does seriously trigger the other, it's not a twin thing it's an anxiety thing).  We stopped a little while later and I got gravol out of the back and gave her a real one and a ginger one and said to take both as the real thing was probably better for her at that point. Unfortunately it was too little too late, so after being sick we moved her up to the front seat with the AC blowing on her and I moved to the back.

Jay said he was getting hungry and we got onto a part of our drive where we weren't getting off the road we were on for 113km so I turned off the GPS, clicked into Trip Advisor, did a map of restaurants "near me", searched an area about 10 mins ahead of us for a while and finally stopped on a restaurant in the middle of no where that had 31 reviews and a 4.8* rating. Set the Maps to the location (not quite, so tried again and got it) and Trip Advisor didn't steer us wrong (it rarely does).  I have no idea how anyone originally found this little restaurant but now it has 32 reviews so that if anyone is ever searching for a good restaurant off the highway they'll find it.  When we parked Paige said "I can do without stopping" she was being judgy, it was actually quite nice outside.  The staff didn't speak a word of english.  The one server came over and then called the other one over who ALSO didn't speak any english (but he understood), I had pulled the menu up online and translated it (how did we survive without THAT too!), so we did a lot of pointing and nodding and got exactly what we ordered.  I had fusilli with pecorino and grilled zucchini, Jay had fusillli with tomato sauce and basil, the girls just shared fries and Jay also got a sauteed steak with mushrooms and cheese on top - he didn't need it because the pasta was bigger than he thought but it was good!  The fries were homemade with real potato but also crispy and light - some of the best fries I've ever had actually, the perfect amount of salty.  The fusilli Paige said "why does it look like that?"  Because it's homemade pasta.  5* from us.  Plus the whole meal came to 57EU which is the cheapest meal we have had!  You know it's authentic when the menu has no english and all the people in there are workers in uniforms - good food, like Nonna makes.

I didn't take pictures so went back to the website - I had looked up the website on the road so I was fairly confident that it would be good.

After about 3 hrs of driving Jay asked to switch...because of the stop for lunch that puts us getting there at 3pm instead of 2pm and I have a client call at 2:30pm to review some mortgage documents before sending them off to DocuSign.  It's now 1:30pm...we can switch but you have to switch back in 45 mins.

At just after 2pm we came across a gas station with a restroom so I pulled over to switch with Jay and use the bathroom.  Sophie said "you just went to the bathroom" - thank you Sophie, I also had a Coke Zero and half a large bottle of sparkling water, mind your own fucking business.

3pm and we arrived at Baia Delle Zagare resort and it's LOVELY.  This is my jam.  I'm happy we did Rome and Positano but I've been to both before (though didn't see the same things as we did this time so that was great) but I do enjoy relaxing at the end of a few hectic days. 

We got checked in and our rooms were ready, the girls are in their own room and we are in 110 in the same building.  I asked at reception if the rooms are the same and the attendant said yes, so I said then it doesn't matter which room the girls are in and we are in.  The rooms are not the same, ours is on the first floor (which I prefer) and theirs is above ours but they said theirs is larger.  We still have a pretty big room and don't need any more space do I really don't care and they're happy on the 2nd floor.  Paige as we checked in said "this is my part of the vacation, I want to eat, sleep and do nothing".

The girls want to go down to the beach, Jay wanted to go to the gym, so I got changed to go to the beach with them.  Its a short walk around a couple other buildings and to the elevator or stairs down to the cove.

On the way down the elevator they asked about the beach grill and restaurant and I said "Anything you get here you just charge to our room" and Sophie said "Oh, so it is all inclusive" and Paige sighed and said "Oh, I am going to like it here". lol

We gave our name to the attendant who double checked the manifest and then gave us 2 sets of 2 chairs and an umbrella.  

The girls dumped their stuff and then went to kayak around the rock formations and across the cove

This is more like it. I do like to relax at the end of a trip - I enjoy 2-3 nights and then move on and this is a perfect relaxing ending. 

We sat down at the beach for probably about 90 mins, Jay came down and joined us and went in the ocean for a quick dip.  The girls were too chicken to order anything from the bar (a lot of the staff don't speak english so it is a little more difficult) so waited for him and then they ordered a sandwich with tomato, mozzarella and basil on fresh bread that was served warm and really good.  I had a sparkling water and a Coke Zero, none of the cocktails really appealed to me.

We came back to the rooms and relaxed for about an hour and a half before dinner.  At 7:10 I said to Jay, Ok I'm getting changed (I was in my pyjamas, a pair of light striped shorts and a tank top, no boobs after coming up from the beach) and he said "for what?" For dinner? "Into what?" Something nice for dinner? I brought mostly 'nice' clothes, even my tanks aren't tanks - his 2 linen shirts we bought for him are still packed so now they're creased and there is no steamer or iron in the room so we'll try to steam them in the shower tomorrow.

The Girls came down and met us by our room, and when we got to the restaurant and perused the menu we all looked at eachother kind of side eye - there really isn't a lot on the menu and the 2 things I thought might be steak because they said 'fillet' were, in fact, fish per the google machine.  Overall no one was overly impressed with their meal, which is a huge let down because the rest of the resort is so nice.  Paige had veal which was overcooked and not seasoned, it looked grey but tasted good; Sophie ordered burratta with tomato and basil gazpacho, I know that gazpacho is a cold soup but I thought it would come with tomatoes and a basil gazpacho (like a sauce).  No, it was a ball of burrata cheese and then a spoon full of cold tomato soup with a few leaves of basil.  Like WTF, who eats a ball of cheese like that? I had the eggplant parmesan which was actually delicious and Jay ordered a ravioli which was also good but they were literally the only things on the menu we would contemplate having.  The Town is about 20 mins away so tomorrow we will go into town for dinner, maybe the day after we'll just get a bunch of late snacks at the beach we'll see.

The homemade ice cream was really good - the Girls got chocolate (they said it had a slight hazelnut flavour) and I had lemon.  Jay got a cheesecake.

I started googling places to eat as soon as we got back to the room because that meal was 200Eu (about $325) and not worth it AT ALL.  Paige had a pina colada (and I know my pina coladas) that was just sweet but no coconut or pineapple flavour (and when we asked if they had pineapple juice for Sophie they said no so that should have been our first clue now that I think of it, I had a glass of rose which was really really good. But no other alcohol for $325!!  No thank you.  I looked at the Trip Advisor reviews for the restaurant after and they're only 3.2*, no freaking kidding.  I'll review once we leave, lol.

Day 4 - Positano

 It's hard to believe it's only day 4.  It feels like we have been away for at least twice that at the moment. 

Last night when I went to get into bed I noticed that on our bed was only a sheet.  I said to Jay "no blanket?" No.  So I opened a drawer in the dresser and lo and behold a thin comforter, perfect.  There was another wool-like thicker blanket too but we don't need it.  I went into the girls room and said "do you just have a sheet?" And Sophie turned over and was like "yeah" with a surprised and slightly disgusted inflection. I checked their closet and there were two thick comforters they didn't want and said "do you want a blanket? We have one in our room"  Paige said "I'm ok, I have this one".  Little shit had found a blanket, folded it in half and put it in bed over her and under the sheet so Sophie wouldn't know. When I brought back in the big blanket and spread it over Sophie Paige said "You wanna share that?"  Jesus Paige.  So I spread it on top of both of them and got satisfied little hums from them.

We all slept until 10am this morning!  I probably fell asleep at around 10:30pm so a really good night sleep.  I woke the girls up and we all left the house around 11:30am to head back down to shop, have lunch and grab some meat, cheese and bread for dinner tonight.

When we got down to the bottom of the MANY stairs, we enjoyed another lemon slushy.  

I told myself I was going to take some pictures today.  I did not.  I took this one which is right at the bottom of the stairs back to the house. 

Those weren't even the pretty postcards, the pretty ones were in the next display to the left but 3 guys stopped in front of it right as I was about to take the picture and I lingered uncomfortably long waiting for them to move on until I left, lol.  I think Paige took a photo of the nice ones so I'll ask her for her pictures.

After some shopping (we got Jay a short sleeve and a long sleeve linen shirt) we stopped for lunch.  It was fantastic, we sat inside in the AC and enjoyed feta and watermelon salad with arugula and then Jay and I shared a focaccia flatbread with proscuitto and parmesan on it while the girls shared a margarita pizza and a salad as well and we got fries for the table.

We stopped at the market at the base of the steps on the way home and picked up buffalo mozzarella, tomatoes and bread for dinner and figured we would get meat and cheese at the market at the top of the stairs at our road.  Ahhhh, shit.  That one is closed, lol.  

Sophie really wanted to go to the beach (all the way back at the bottom), so Jay took her.  My calf is bothering me a little bit after all those stairs yesterday and this morning (plus there is no way I am voluntarily going back down those stairs again today.  As Paige said when Jay was working out this morning doing push ups "Why is he doing that? He has free will" - his free will just tells him to do push ups at 10:30am in the scorching sun on vacation - the same free will that he's using to do the steps again to keep daughter #1 happy). We talked about them grabbing the other dinner items while they were down there but they didn't take money because they planned on going in the ocean.

Paige and I enjoyed the terrace, sitting under the umbrella I read my book while she baked in the sun for a bit then headed inside.  I went in the hot tub, which is really just a tub full of circulating water, it was about 30 degrees which is cooler than my body was so felt nice.  

When Sophie and Jay got home and Sophie sat out with me I said "How were those stairs again?" She looked at my side eye and said "Dad wouldn't let me stop to rest, he kept saying 'just push through it''just one more step'" but she said the beach was warm, the sand so hot it burnt her feet and the 'secret beach' was not, in fact, where she thought it was so they walked extra far for nothing.

I did some more laundry this afternoon and hung it out to dry on the terrace, I purposefully booked a place with laundry for mid-trip so that we can get everything washed and fresh for the last few days.  Since it's been stinkin' hot (literally) it's been especially helpful because you really can only wear something once before it's not really super wearable again.

After coming in to change I looked up "markets near me" and aside from the one that we went to go to this morning at the top of the stairs that was closed there are 2 more on our road just a 100m further down and around the bend so Jay and I walked down there and at the first one we got some fruit; Grapes (not seedless), peaches and cherries here and then went to the second one and got parmesan and salami and then picked up a can of pringles for the girls and a carton of pineapple juice and at the third one we got some provolone, 2 slices of lemon cake, a croissant for Paige because she said she wanted a pastry and they only had 1, 2 kit kat bars for the girls and a few Coke Zeros for the apartment.  We have to check out by 10am and probably won't eat all this but maybe we'll have a mini fridge in the hotel room and can snack there or on the way.  My calf was bothering me today, I should have put on my compression sleeve as soon as I felt twinges today - the last market had a step down that I missed so I landed on that foot with a hard step and hurt it.  Not so bad I'm limping but enough that I have my sleeve on now - in fact I had it on when we went for the walk.

Turns out the croissant was stuffed with lemon cream so I got my lemon cream stuffed croissant after all (because no way was Paige eating it), it wasn't super fresh but was delicious!

Did another load of laundry so that everything is clean - it dries so quickly here because there is a nice breeze and the sun is frickin' hot.

We had our terrace dinner, caprese and bread for the girls, meat and cheese with bread for Jay and I and then we shared some sliced peaches (which it was good that I ate mine while I chopped up the peaches because I went in to throw Paige's blanket in the wash and came out and all the peaches were gone!). It's cool once the sun isn't overhead anymore and with the breeze it's quite comfortable out even though its still 28 degrees at 9pm.

It's early but we haven't really done anything else today so not a lot to report!

Only 6,485 steps today, 4.21 km and 17 flights of stairs (the stairs are a killer).

Day 3 - Travel to Positano

 We got up by 7am this morning and out the door by 8am in order to get to the market.  Pretty sure the taxi ripped us off as half way there the meter turned off and he took the long way and charged us 25Eur but on the way back we took an Uber and it was 19Eu so he didn't rip us off that bad if he did.

Sophie had success, she wanted a dupe Dior bag and found it.  Originally 70Eu and got it for 50Eu (after about 30 seconds of me looking at her I think the guy thought I was going to walk away).  She had a Prada bag in her hand as well but he said it was 200Eu.  I told Sophie that in a place known for selling fake bags you don't buy a Vintage bag or one they say is real.  Fair enough.

The market is about 2km long and there are about 10 different stalls just on repeat.  Leather bags (Paige got one), fake bags, leather shoes, used shoes, random clothing and small electronics, then again the same things.  We walked the whole 2km in case Sophie found another gem but she did not.

Yesterday I asked Claude "Where is a picturesque place to stop for lunch between Rome and Positano (driving a car) that has good reviews.  Can be by the water, in the country, doesn't matter.  But doesn't add more than 20 mins to the shortest route"  

Claude's Reply:

Claude did us dirty.  Here was his reply to my comment back:

Jay and I have done the math 6 ways from Sunday and we aren't sure how the trip took that long, we've dropped pins at the highway and tracked down to Sperlonga, we've dropped pins and tracked from Sperlonga to Positano and from Rome to Positano and Claude  and the trip should have been only 4 hours...we have ZERO idea how it took 5, but it did.

Anyway, the girls weren't super happy about the long detour, we had some pretty scenic views, a shitty lunch at an overpriced ocean view restaurant and got back in the car for another long drive to Positano.  We couldn't check into our Villa in Positano until 4pm anyway so it doesn't really matter but they could have done some more walking around here.  And I don't know what they complained about they were both sleeping for the car ride!  Because of all the naps yesterday they were up until 3am last night they said.  At MINIMUM it was a pretty view from lunch.

Jay and Sophie right before we left both got the RingConn rings and they've been tracking their sleep and stress and oxygenation levels since they got them.  Paige and I are feeling left out so I think there are some rings in our future.  Jay says that the data it provides is pretty astonishing.  

We arrived in Positano and the property manager had an issue with her scooter so she was a little late meeting us. We were really careful not to go past the unit because turning around to come back would be a nightmare.  They gave very clear instructions on how to get here which I appreciated.  We have parking and a really nice terrace which is why I booked this place.  It's only 8 mins walk DOWN to the shopping streets (there are 2 main ones) and there is a little market just down the street.

Some pics of our place, which I booked on Airbnb.

We got changed, put some stuff in the wash, and the Girls and I walked down into town - it's about 6pm and we have dinner reservations at 7:45pm so we don't have a lot of time but wanted to see what was down there.  As we were walking down Sophie was complaining about her calf cramping and at the bottom we all felt our legs shaking.  I hadn't had anything to drink today with the exception of a Coke Zero at lunch so we grabbed a lemon slushy from a street vendor which was SPECTACULAR!  I love anything lemon and they're known here for their lemons and lemoncello in the Amalfi.  It was just the right amount of sweet and tart.

The Girls did a bit of shopping, they each got a makeup bag and Paige got a pair of sandals.

On the way back up, at the top of the one million stairs (no literally, my watch says we did 19 flights of stairs today and in Rome we only did the 2 up and 2 down today), I grabbed 2 Coke Zeros and a big bottle of sparkling water at the little market at the end of the street.  I noticed that there was a bottle of lemencello in the fridge and I'm a sucker for anything lemon, so maybe I'll have lemoncello and a sparkling water later - sounds refreshing!

When we got back I quickly drank my Coke Zero and sat on the terrace to start the blog but didn't get very far.

We decided we have to do an Italy Glow Up on Jay because all he brought is Lulu so tomorrow's goal is to get him a nice pair of shorts and a linen shirt.

I told Jay I'd like to have a meal today or tomorrow just on the terrace, meat, cheese, oil, maybe some fruit or a caprese salad.  Not tonight though, we made reservations at a restaurant called Roc Steak and Pizza because it had good reviews and was super close to our Airbnb (just 200m away) .  Oh. My. God.  Listen, the prices were not low (which I did not check in advance) BUT, the service, the food, the drinks they were all fantastic!  Paige had a Positano Spritz which was like a peach bellini and I had a Lemoncello Spritz (it's not lemony enough for me so I probably won't get one again but its' good - I haven't really been drinking much for the last 6 months so 3 drinks in 3 days is a lot for me these days), Jay had a glass of Brunello and Sophie had water.  Jay said this would rank in his top 5 meals of all time (for steak), the steak in St Maarten a couple years ago was phenomenal.

Jay had the Angus - you buy it by the Kg

Sophie had a margarita pizza - they won 3rd in a National Pizza contest.

(I feel like I've written a lot of this already but I can't find it here but I did have a whole Lemoncello Spritz so sorry if this is duplicated, I checked 3 times, it's possible I wrote it in the 2 reviews I did because they brought QRs to the table for Google and for TripAdvisor).

Paige got an Irish steak that was served with creamed potatoes and we asked for the Leak sauce on the side.

I had a Steak Tataki appetizer.

Every steak is cooked to rare and then they bring a hot plate so if you want to cook it a little more you can.

We just got home after walking back - this won't be a super long blog today because we didn't do too much.  I'll try to take more pics tomorrow!

Told the girls if they pose for 1 picture that's the one that goes in - I took 6 in quick succession and this is the best one of me, lol.  Just kidding there were better ones of me but by the 0.8 seconds it took for the 4th to 6th picture they were rolling their eyes. haha.

Sniped (this is in our parking area)

10,896 steps, 6.99Km and 19 flights of stairs (straight up) - considering we drove 5 hours that's not too shabby!

Oh, and I caught my fingers in between the gate and the thing that the gate slides into, they're sore - so that's fun.

Oh, haha, notice the ring sizer coil on my ring?  I've lost a bunch of weight so even with the sizer balls added it isn't enough so last time I went to the jewellery store they gave me this plastic, ghetto coil to put around my ring but it keeps it in place so that's what I'm using!  And my callus is from working hard at Curves!

Last shot from the terrace before bed!  9:30pm here, that's more like it.