What's better than a week with your husband and no kids in a gorgeous beach house on a deserted beach? NOTHING!!!
To celebrate Lane feeling human again and being in remission, we took a little getaway the first week of December and stayed in the Casa Blanca Villas on Sandy Beach. We haven't been there for 15 years - it has changed that's for sure!
The funny thing is that the whole place was deserted! We literally didn't see another "tourist" or visitor there the whole time we were there! We had the beach to ourselves, the pools to ourselves, the dunes for quadding to ourselves, the restaurants to ourselves. 5 different restaurants - we were the ONLY people in every single one! That's OK I guess - we had a very nice private seranade that probably lasted longer than it normally would have - were there other people there to draw them away!
We had a great time hanging out, doing nothing, doing a 1000 piece puzzle (which by the way was missing a piece - and we opened it brand new!), quadding, eating, reading, getting massages, pedicure, running on the beach, etc.
The last night there, we were so starved for interaction with other people that we decided to go do the "booze cruise" and no - we don't drink. We talked them down to $20 a person instead of the regular $30. That was all the beer and margaritas you can drink - no help to us - as well as some food. We figured it would be worth getting out and doing something instead of sitting in a restaurant alone. There was a live band on board - and it looked to be quite a party on this 3-story boat that could hold about 200 people.
Well, we enjoyed a 2 hour cruise off the coast with 4 other people. Yup, there were 6 of us total. Can you even believe it? Why would they even take the boat out? I am SURE they lost money on that cruise! We were sitting at a table by ourselves, and started laughing when we saw the workers playing the Wii. I guess they have it there for the guests' entertainment, and since they had nothing to do, they were playing baseball on the Wii. Lane and I knew we were getting a Wii for the kids for Christmas so we thought we'd try it out. I guess the highlight of the cruise was playing tennis on the Wii. You can see pictures of the empty boat and the workers playing in the collage. That was the exciting night out to interact with other people.
Can I just say that I missed my technology though? I really need a little bit of noise in my life! There was no TV, the cell phone didn't have the best reception, there was no movie theater in Rocky Point (?what's up with that??). Thank heaven we brough the i-home and the i-pod. I laughed on the drive home because I was reading a book. Lane said he'd give me 1/2 hour more to read then I had to talk to him. I looked at him and said we have been together by ourselves for 3 days talking. I am out of things to say!!!! That's pretty scary when I run out of things to talk about or say! Wow!
Anyway, we had a great time, even if it meant I had to scratch half the Christmas decorations on the house. We got home and I had missed out on the whole first week of December and decided it just wasn't worth the effort of putting it all up when half the month was gone! :) Call me Scrooge.
Thanks to my awesome husband for a great week!
