Day 3
I can’t sleep in. I suppose it is from years of getting up early. I tried sleeping in but kept waking up every few minute so I got up and made a Greek Frappe. This has been my morning choice for a coffee drink for years. After breakfast a walk on the beach and we would hang out by the pool.
I brought up the fact that you always over pack for trips like these. If you stay in a condo like we do you always end up doing laundry so most of the clothes you take with you aren’t even needed. Take underwear, I have to make sure I have one clean pair for each day plus a couple of extra. Socks is the same, need extra socks. Extra shoes too. We still ended buying some t-shirts at the beach shop and a department store on day three. So more than half the clothes I took didn’t even get used and then I bought more!!!
So the afternoon is spent around the pool or on the beach which brings me to the sun. If I spend 5 minutes in the sun I burn. I wear spf 50 for crying out loud! One of my facebook friends made fun of my white legs, they would have been whiter if I had not spent some time in the sun already. Anyway, my head was sunburned a couple of times. After being in the sun for 45 minutes I will be burnt and for three days my chest will be red. My head, face, nose and arms are pealing. I had to cautiously spend my time in the sun. Jackie spends 5 minutes in the sun and is immediately tan.
The evening of the third day was spent at the Hard Rock Casino. First of all I hate this casino; not because I lost…I always lose. This casino is the most confusing place I have ever been in. I’m sure some expert designed the layout for the purpose maximizing the amount of money gambled by people.
A side note: When we eat out I usually order ice tea, unsweetened and with NO lemon. When I receive my ice tea it almost always has the lemon wedge ( I didn't ask for) on the glass. They get the unsweetened part correct but can never get the lemon thing right. Second, I order a Caesar salad with no croutons and the dressing on the side which they can always manage to get correct. So why is it so damn hard to forget the lemon wedge in my case? Anyway, we ate at one of the 18 restaurants at the casino. It was a Tex-Mex kind of place. It was very pricey and really wasn’t that good.
Day 4
Day four and our friends are meeting us at our condo for a day on the beach or around the pool. Again, me being the original white man I needed to be careful in the sun. The first thing I do is put SPF 50 on while Jackie puts on accelerator. Day four was also the day we were reunited with Sid.
Now at 11:00 a.m. we have to sit through a time share sales pitch. Jackie’s mom gets some kind of points for us sitting through the damn thing and hey what is hour out of your life anyway? First we sit through the first sales person trying to convince us that the time share thing will fit nicely into our lifestyle. Second we have to sit through her boss trying to sell us on the same idea only at a reduced price and third is the final “Guido” type guy making an even better offer and then tell us goodbye since we didn’t buy the timeshare. This was a painful process but we got a $100.00 AMEX gift card and free weekend at another timeshare where we will be subjected to the same sales process all over again!
Before we head back to the condo, where our friends are lounging around the pool we decide to stop and get some fried chicken for an easy lunch. We head back to the closet store which is the Winn Dixie where we first encountered the plastic surgery queen. Now in the Mid-west you can encounter rude people but for the most part I consider this one of the friendliest areas of our country. Not the case in south Florida where I think it is a prerequisite that you be an ass&%$#! In general I found the people that worked at the stores and the shoppers to be pretty rude. Well, we bought our chicken and heading back to the condo.
On the beach we people watched. Again it was a freak show. Next to us were two men that I never was able determined their county of origin but their sexual orientation was never in question. A few spots down were a group of “booty-luscious” ladies. Next to them was an older couple. On the other side of us were a mother and daughter who were whiter than me, yes it is possible for someone to be more white than me.
First to the old couple, it was windy and the waves coming in were pretty rough. The old man decided to head in to the water where he was hammered by a wave and knocked down into the water. This guy couldn’t get up so several people rushed to his aid. This was when we first notice the “booty-luscious” ladies. These ladies were not dressed in the normal beach attire; no, no, no! These ladies had on halter tops and black spandex shorts. As far as the two gents, all I can say is that they were posing for each other as they took photos of one another.
Almost forgot the mother and daughter. These two were also not wearing the normal beach attire. They had sun dresses on and they were whiter than me. Now every day these balloon looking like jelly fish kept washing up on the beach. The girl in the mother daughter duo was trying to help one of these jellyfish back into the water. This went on for a long time. She would move it close to the water and the waves would push it back up on the beach. Back and forth, back and forth!
To finish day four Jackie and I ate left over fired chicken and watch a little TV. We had an early and long drive so we had to get to bed early.
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