Relaxing on the beach

Tuesday February 18th

A new day, a new attitude.

 

The sight that greeted us as we emerged for breakfast.
A beautiful place for a beautiful bride to be photographed

We had a very slow lazy start to the day and thought we were about to miss breakfast but once we got to the dining room at 9.45am, we discovered that breakfast goes till 10.30 so the rushing about wasn’t necessary.  The breakfast choices were vast so we filled up well.

We then took ourselves off to the beach for the day.  We hired a couple of the beach chairs that lined the beach, choosing a couple that were under the trees at the back of the beach.  We happily whiled away the day swimming, reading and napping.  We’ve been quite surprised by the level of tanning that goes on.  Whereas we do everything we can to keep the sun off our skin, we see people laying out in the full sun for hours, getting a very leathery look as they go.  Not for me, thanks!

No, that's not John paragliding

When the beach chair guy started packing up, we upped sticks and moved back to the hotel pool where we blobbed away another hour.

 

Little pineapple dudes sitting by the pool.
Cute idea for serving pineapple juice!

We decided to try the hotel restaurant tonight.  The food was delicious and we enjoyed sitting for a while listening to the band.  They played a good mix of contemporary music and golden oldies including “Horse with no name” and “Reminiscing”.  We were surprised when we looked up at the stage during the performance to see that the singers had been joined by a young teenage girl.  We thought it was going to be one of those painful moments when someone mistakenly thinks that they can sing, but she was very good.  She only sang one song and got a well-deserved round of applause from the audience.

The band

My substance of choice

We’ve decided that today’s activities (or lack thereof) are what we both want.  There are animal shows which I refuse to support, a temple (but hey, we’ve just been to the Angkor temples) and there’s a Buddha statue somewhere (couldn’t beat the Reclining Buddha in Bangkok or the huge Buddha that we’ve visited in Nara) so relaxing on the beach is just what we'll do.