WOW! What a sleep-in. After the long goodbye to Boise yesterday, Sandra and I slept in like it was a retirement home. Nobody mentioned "snoring", so we assumed there was none. This is the day we are to consolidate with Alexa from her trip from NYC. She didn't have so much of a travel being on the Eastside of the country, but just the same she had an early get-out-the-door schedule. Sandra and I only had to shuffle a couple hundred yards to await her exiting the airport. When she did, it was a happy hugging fest.
We then grabbed our Costo shuttle (yes, we booked it through Costco, and it was glorious) to our hotel. That too wasn't far, and when we arrived, I was accordingly happy as I immediately saw 3 bars, a swimming oasis and half of it air-conditioned. This is 4 steps up from Sandra's normal "I want to try a jungle living experience in a malaria tent". This was a great compromise.
We arrived a few hours before our check in time, so we ventured out to grab some lunch along the boardwalk restaurant by the beach. It was pretty chill, and you could start to feel the tensions of travel dissipating. We didn't have to lounge too long before the room was ready, and soon everyone was changed into their vacation attire. Sandra and Alexa were instantly in their super-hero unforms of swimsuits and flipflops. I changed into my alter super-hero personality as Dad-Bod! My superpower was cargo pants, straw hat and an attitude capable of hiding out the sun. We left the room ready to protect pasty white skin from sunburns.
Of course, Sandra and Alexa headed for umbrellas posted on the sandy beach. Once I hit the border of concrete and sand, I had to stop. I met my kryptonite. I bid them farewell until dinner, and I meandered to a lawn chair by the pool where 4 palm trees protected me. Put in some crunchy tunes, watched a gecko play about by my feet and before long it had turned 6pm. Whaaaa? Does time stand still in the islands? How long was I asleep? In any case I made it back to the room and not long after the girls came in. They did their shower thing, and we headed out to dinner.
We ate at a place called the Metropolis (?) I think. In any case, it was nice and local, and when the menu arrived, I felt like I had finally found my people. It was beef centric and for the most part all "fried"! Thank you, lord, I did not see any quinoa or herb bowls. We each had a delicious beef dinner, and I felt my soul was fed.
Not much of a walk back to the room, and once in PJ's the lights were out and so were we.