Day 2 in Paradise

On Day 2, we drove over to Sugar Bay beach. We loved it, and didn't expect to stay more than an hour or so, but the weather was perfect, we had a nice shady spot under a tree to leave our stuff, and the sand and water were so nice that we spent the entire day there. This was a more crowded beach, which didn't turn out to be as bad as we expected it to be. The resort nearby sends out waiters for their restaurants with menus and you can order food and have them delivered right to you on the beach. It was great!





We did some swimming, ordered a pizza and after we ate, Aaron rented snorkel gear and went over to check out the reef. I read my book and fell asleep under the coconut trees.

I woke up an hour later because a couple was walking by along the water and shouted, "look out!" and startled me. There was a huge iguana standing on our pizza box and his face was like 6 inches from mine! Ahhh! There were a couple of girls sunbathing 10 or 20 yards away. I asked them why THEY hadn't woken me up, and one of them held up a tennis racket and said, "we were just glad he had finally left us alone and went over to bug you instead!" nice
I pity the fool who eats my pizza!

After a day at the beach, we walked out to the penninsula to check out the amazing view.

See that long skinny pathway lined with coconut trees? When we reached the end, Aaron took me by the hand and looked me in the eye and said, "Meg Willardson, will you accept this rose?"

hahahaha I totally died.

What a stupid show. Sorry. I know there are a lot of fans out there, but give me a break. Could you get farther from reality?

What's that? You don't understand how we made it two whole days on beaches under the Carribean sun without getting a sunburn?

First of all, have you met me? I keep the sunblock industry thriving. I like my beach trips without the side of skin cancer. I kept us both lathered up in waterproof Coppetone and Banana Boat hourly. Only once, near the end of our trip did Aaron not reapply. He got a sunburn that day. Sunscreen works, baby! If it didn't, there's no way I could have returned home from a tropical vacation and still be white enough for a couple of girls at the local pool to ask me if this was my first time out, this summer. hahaha!

We ran out of sunblock on the 2nd day and had to buy more at one of the ridiculously overpriced gift shops. It was worth it, but all I have to say now is that when I turn 60, I'd better still look like I'm 25, or what a waste.

That night, we went to Duffy's Luv Shack for virgin pina coladas and chicken quesadillas. All of the drinks come with a bunch of those fun little decorations on a stick, like a pipe cleaner flamingo, or a tiny umbrella, or a pom pom with shiny streamers, or a plastic mermaid floating in the drink. Well these kids at the table next to us (thier parents had been there for an hour for drinks, and the kids were done with dinner and they had to wait for their parents to finish up) were totally bored, so they took all the decorations off of the drink sticks that had come in all of their parents alcoholic beverages. Then they stuck the stick (like long toothpicks) into their drink straws and walked over to the balcony near where we were sitting and like a blow dart gun, they shot the toothpicks out of the straws into the traffic below the restaurant. The REALLY funny part is that since the toothpicks had been soaked in alcohol, the boys blew their "guns" by some tiki torches, and the sticks burst into flames as they shot through the fire, and continued to burn as they flew down to the people and cars below. It was really funny, but also kind of sad that they were being so ignored, because their parents didn't have a clue how awesomely creative their kids are. We enjoyed the dinner entertainment though.