A Night on The Town

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On Friday, we went surfing in the morning, which I mentioned before. Then we came back, had lunch and got a couple's massage at the resort. This was my first massage; I was kind of nervous. But it was relaxing and nice.  Do you talk during your massage or lay there quietly?

The room was on the second floor, white and bright. One whole wall was windows to the back of the resort so it was jungle like. When our massage was over there were 5 monkeys and a baby monkey hanging out in the trees. It was awesome to watch them.

We wanted to go on a jet skiing excursion on Saturday morning. (Jon has never been and is SOO missing out!) And I LOVE to jet ski!! The local area was too rocky. So one of the staff helped me find a place that would come pick us up at the resort and take us to the place where we could jet ski. We had that all planned with the Oleksa's, some friends and coworkers. But there were more people who wanted to come and the outfit only had 3 jet skis :( So I canceled it last minute and tried to make arrangements to go snorkeling the next day instead. But I didn't know how to get a hold of the excursion company. I was told we'd have to go into their shop in town to make arrangements and hopefully they'd still be open because the resort didn't have their phone number.

That night we planned to go to town and make arrangements for snorkeling, shop for souvenirs for the kiddos and have dinner at Seasons, another recommended restaurant. We took a taxi into town and told the driver where we wanted to go. (The taxi drivers and bus drivers are SOOO fast and crazy! They just pass cars and bicyclers so close and fast! And all the roads in town are dirt so its really bumpy. They'll often drive on the other side of the road because its smoother!) Anyway, this driver was so nice. The excursion company had just closed but he was able to catch the guy who worked there and I was able to talk to him and got him to open the shop back up and make the call so we could go snorkeling the next day!

Then we found some sweltering and lame gift shops, got some ibuprofen for Jon's pain, and found a good shop where we got the boys each a hacky sack and a little monkey with velcro hands and feet.

Then we stopped for drinks, since we were meeting some other friends for dinner in an hour. We found this nice little place on the shore.

The group: Angela, Max, Emily, Brian and Jon

We didn't know where Seasons, the restaurant was, so the guy at the place on the shore drew a little map. It was a little scary walking around the dark dirt streets, with no phone, not really knowing where we're going. There were locals here and there and apparently Jon was offered marijuana a few times just that night. Also, each restaurant has a guy out on the street with a menu to get people to come in for dinner. One guy was talking to Jon and noticed his Skullcandy hat. (Everyone in the town knew about Skullcandy and wanted gear and stuff.) He asked Jon if he could have his hat. And was a little persistent about it.

We found the place quick enough and saw that there were already like 15 other Skullcandy people there. The service was poor and VERY slow (probably because they were busy with our groups), but the food was really good. Our server wouldn't break the check into groups because, "it was too hard". Yeah...we weren't going to tip her at all, but it was included! But the food was good and filet minon for $15, not bad!

As you can see the air is hot and sticky even at night!

Biggie and Maddie joined our group for dinner. There were geckos on the ceiling here too!

Later that night, Skullcandy put on a party at the local night club, Aquadisco. Locals were invited too. After dinner we went back to the resort and chatted with friends on the pool deck. We decided that we didn't want to go to the night club. Plus, people were already getting drunk before the party even started.

We just hung out on the lounge chairs at the pool for a couple hours. It was so nice! With everyone either at the club or in their rooms, it was quiet and private and just nice. The sky was so pretty with the palm trees swaying and the occasional shooting stars. We talked about life, goals, perspective, direction, experiences, etc. Its always nice to enjoy that part of our trips.