TCI: First Full Day

We are finally here!  Thank goodness.  Our trip here wasn't too eventful, unless you count the last 45 minutes of our flight that had just enough turbulence to make me feel like I was going to lose my lunch.  It was not fun.  But we arrived in one piece and that's all that really mattered.

Our resort is really awesome.  We have a view of the ocean from our room and were welcomed with complementary rum punch, so it's fair to say that we're pretty happy with the place we picked.

This is where we lounged this morning.

When we arrived it was raining quite a bit, which I gathered is pretty unusual.  Mike and I ended up hanging out at our beachfront restaurant/bar that's at our resort and then went to sleep relatively early last night because there wasn't much to do.  But we made up for our lack of activity today.  We spent a good part of our day hanging out on the beach.  Since our resort is beachfront, we had to walk a grand total of five minutes to get where we were going.  We picked out an umbrella, put our stuff down, and headed out into the water.  An hour and a half later, we decided we needed a change of scenery.  There is also an area that has a couple of hammocks in it that we ended up hanging out in during the afternoon.  Today was a lazy day for sure.

The water here is the bluest I have ever seen.  I don't remember it being this blue in Jamaica, nor do I remember it being this blue in Corsica or St. Martin.  When you first get in it, the water is kind of cold but then your body gets used to it and it's absolutely lovely.  We made it through the day without a sunburn, so that's a plus.

We've been eating pretty well here.  I had conch pizza for lunch today and Mike had conch wantons at a resort close to ours, and last night we had conch fritters.  Sensing a theme here?  Tonight we went to a pretty fancy-pants restaurant down the street and had an amazing meal.  You can tell that the restaurants here are struggling a little because they aren't super full and they are offering all sorts of deals.

Conch pizza.  Complete with rum punch.  Yum!

As far as being in a foreign country goes, there really isn't too much that is different here.  The biggest difference I've seen is that people drive on the other side of the road and speed limits are posted in kilometers.  The cars here aren't consistent with which side the steering wheel is placed on, so sometimes you view them placed on the left and sometimes you see them placed on the right.  The cars are also pretty large.  I remember St. Martin having everything ranging from SmartCars to SUVs, but here I've seen more of the bigger cars.  Another interesting thing that I've noticed here is that the poverty isn't as stark as it was when we were in Jamaica.  Don't get me wrong, it is still present here but nothing like it was when we were on that island.

Our view during lunch.

Tomorrow morning we are getting up early to go on a glass bottom boat/snorkeling tour.  We also get to go to Iguana Island to check out some of the wildlife.  Needless to say, we're both pretty excited.  Stay tuned for my next post on that!