Anyway, we woke up around 8:15 on Tuesday morning. It was the first full night's sleep we got since the wedding and we got almost twelve hours! I didn't sleep as well as I wanted to, because the resort was small and the steel drum band was still playing when we went to bed. The walls were thin, so we could hear people walking past our room and we were so close to the airport you could hear planes flying over head. Nonetheless, we managed our twelve hours, which was desperately needed! I woke up covered in bug bites, which is pretty typical. I forget who it was, but someone told me the mosquitos weren't that bad in Jamaica, so I hadn't bothered to spray the night before. It sounded strange when I heard it and I should have gone with that doubt, because it was obviously a lie! After showering and applying sunblock (and bug spray!), we hit the breakfast buffet again and ate on the deck again. We then went to the beach where some random Jamaican on a surfboard tried to sell us stuff and I started my journal (which is now being turned into this blog). We sat under a tree that took us days to figure out what was growing on it (almonds!!). They kept falling on us (and everyone else!), so we had to be on our toes to make sure we didn't get hit on the head! We ran into David & Lo while we were at the beach, but didn't really hang out. When we got back to our room, Calvin & Hector had been trying to call us (on the cell phone they gave us to contact them all week!). Apparently they had reserved chairs for us at the beach...oops! While we had them on the phone, we had them book us on a glass-bottom boat tour for the afternoon. We got lunch at Mariner's Seaside Grill (the beach-side bar) before we went out (Ryan got a cheeseburger and I had a hot dog). I thought we'd see some turtles on the glass-bottom boat tour and I was really disappointed that we didn't. We saw lots of coral and some sting rays, but the boat scared all the fish away. It was still pretty cool. I was definitely feeling nauseous, which has never happened to me before, so I had to keep looking down.
After the glass-bottom boat tour (which I DID take pictures on, but none of them turned out because the boat was moving too fast), we went back to our private pool. We met our suite neighbors, Zack & Robin, who were from Texas and really cool. They got married on Sunday. I was getting super annoyed at this point, because people that were not in the swim-up suites were using our pool and lounge chairs. There was literally exactly enough for the four rooms that lined the pool, so it was really annoying when "outsiders" used them.
We ordered some room service (shrimp cocktail and caesar salad), which was very good.
I managed to lock us out of the room at that point and we had to call Hector to come let us back in. We stayed outside for several hours, drinking, reading and listening to music. Then, we came inside and tried out the jacuzzi tub. We got Hector to set up a reservation at the Regency Grill, which served international food and was actually the same place we ate breakfast every morning. This was great, because while everyone was waiting in line to be seated, Hector took us right back to our table (which had a "reserved" sign on it!) and we got served right away! Ryan had the 3-cheese shrimp linguini and I had the grilled/jerk chicken (Jamaica's specialty). Our view was much better than the view during the buffet and we got to see the sunset while we ate. Very nice and very romantic.
When we got back to the room, Hector was there and told us to come back. We wandered around the resort for about ten minutes until he called us to come back. When we walked in the room, there were flower petals on the bed with "Happy Honeymooners" written in grass pieces and little elephants made from towels. There was also an envelope addressed to the wrong couple (oooops!) inviting us (them?) to some dinner the next night. I'm sure it was for us anyway, but when we told Hector that it was the wrong couple the next morning, he took it back, looking so embarrassed and never said another word about it (I felt bad...I told Ryan not to say anything...).
After dinner we went to the resort's center stage to check out the entertainment. It was "Romance Tuesday," so I thought there might be something cute to do, but there was just a lounge singer doing covers. We listened for a little bit, but it made me kind of sleepy, so we came back to the room and watched TV. I fell asleep around 10:30, while thinking that the crickets, "or whatever they are" sounded like a squeaky bed. Ha!! (They were tree frogs, I later found out).
Wednesday-(okay, maybe I'm going to get two days into this entry!)
We started Wednesday off at about 9:15 with breakfast delivered to our room. I think we got a little carried away with all the choices, because we ordered scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoes, cereal, toast, fruit, orange juice and banana bread...most of which we didn't touch! We ate outside on the patio and this was the only morning we got breakfast delivered. We had planned on spending some time indoors that day, because we were already getting a little burnt, but we got a phone call from Hector letting us know they reserved chairs for us on the beach again. So, we went to the beach and found our seats, which were right under the almond tree at the water's edge. We weren't there very long and when we were done we came back to our pool for a few hours. We then had lunch at the beach-side bar again. I had chicken quesadillas (disappointing) and Ryan had a jerk chicken wrap and cajun fries, which he loved!
On our way back to our room, we stopped at the main pool and got some drinks at the bar. They were playing "name that tune," so we stuck around a little bit for that. We weren't very good...When we got back to our room, the bathtub was filled with water (and bubbles!), candles were lit, flower petals were scattered and champagne was chilling next to the tub. Clearly, we had to take advantage of that...
When we went outside later to hang up wet towels, we found plates of food waiting for us-little finger sandwiches and cheese & crackers. I'll tell ya, I LOVED how much they fed me there!! We ate them while we watched TV. Ryan fell asleep, so I went outside to read. It rained for about a minute, then it stopped and started again about ten minutes later. There was something very calming about sitting outside watching the rain. No one seemed to be bothered by it. Everyone just carried on with their business, some with umbrellas, most without. It started to clear up again and then starter much harder with thunder. We had reservations at the Thai restaurant that night (which is on the private island, that is also part of the resort), but I wasn't sure if we were still going to be able to go. I was glad that we did go and we took the two-three minute ride over to the private island, which was set up in an Asian motif. It was pretty cool, but we didn't get to enjoy it as much as we could have, since it was dark and raining. At one point it was raining so hard and it was so windy, everyone was getting soaked and I honestly thought we were in for a hurricane!! I was diappointed that I didn't get to see much of the island and didn't get to take many pictures, but the food was definitely interesting. Instead of ordering one entree, they gave you a sample of all three appetizers (spring rolls, some sort of chicken and some weird noodles with shrimp), then you chose your soup (chicken or spicy shrimp-we didn't like either one), then a sampler of all four entrees. The entrees were beef stir fry (pretty much the only one I ate), duck, shrimp and curry chicken. Ryan tried the duck, and said it tasted a little like pork. Desert was coconut flan, some lemon jello thing (gross) and something spongey looking-I wish I had paid better attention. HA! I don't even like coconut, but the flan was my favorite and I ate it all! I remember seeing a rainbow on the way over to the island and I was so mad that I couldn't get my camera out in time!! It was the only one we saw while we were there.
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