Spring Break Day 6 - Thursday Mar 19

It’s Groundhog Day!  Same thing as yesterday…

To the pool by 0900.  Pool had been filled up to normal levels and the rain added some coolness.  Pool water was chilly today.  The sun?  It was hot.  Hit near 80F (27C).  But we didn’t complain.

Lunch was next door at the pool deck restaurant.  But after lunch, as Alex was walking back up to the room, he missed the very last step, stumbled, and fell.  He poured his drink all over himself and cracked the screen protector on his phone.  He was angry and threw his now empty cup.  Nothing was hurt but his pride.  Sadly, there were no witnesses and no video.  We did enjoy his retelling of the events tho!

More cornhole games in the afternoon.  Sandy and I tied Andy and Alex 1-1.  But the game Andy and Alex won had our team going back 3 times and them going back twice.  So technically we should have won 42-35 because that’s how many points we each scored!  Alas, the game don’t work that way.

Dinner was Asian food theme.  Lots of pizza was had!  We came back to play more games before bedtime.  We found out that Alex cannot draw and we laughed until we cried.  Lots of fun.

It is March Madness.  How’s your bracket doing?  Andy’s is not so well with all the upsets, especially in the Big Ten!  

We fly home tomorrow with the temps expected to be in the mid to high 70’s, almost the same as here but without a swim-up bar and a beach.  Still it will be good to be home even though we enjoyed our time down here.

Enjoy some photos.

This morning’s sunrise!

Today’s ocean

Larger shot of the resort


Looking across the infinity pool

The obligatory shot to send back to the office!

Coming back from the swim-up bar.
Yes, the pool water is Chilly!

The beach chairs

The sun starting to come up over the pool.
Stunning!

A sample of the stupid game we were playing.
You have to guess what the previous person drew.
And then the next in line has to draw what the previous person guessed.
This was Kathy’s drawing for Sandy to guess.
Sandy did not guess.  Can you?




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