Manzanillo - #4

Monday was facial day!! They had a very nice spa so we 3 girls decided to check it out and made appointments! Brenda and I had facials and Patty had a chocolate wrap!! I thoroughly enjoyed my facial and found it very relaxing and soothing...........And yes, Patty LOVED being painted in chocolate!!

We decided this would be shopping day -no vans were around so we ended up taking 2 taxis. We kept telling them we wanted to shop and they kept saying the "mall" and that's where we ended up, but it's NOT where we wanted to be!! After asking around, we found a guy that spoke English and he said we needed to be at the "flea market"!!! Yup, that's where the souvenir stands were, right along the beach!! We took another taxi and found the place!!

Nobody found a lot to buy (and I never did end up getting vanilla for Jessi because everyone only had the larger bottles and I needed 3 oz or less for our carry-on) - I was really wanting to get one of those cotton white jackets - I had one from Isla Mujures but somehow lost it while I was garage saling in Ft. Collins last year! But nobody at the flea market had them........

Then it was back to the pools for some afternoon sunshine! Nothing like relaxing in that hot sun and cooling off in the cold pools!

Late afternoon we all got ready for the sunset cruise! Because the little bay was too shallow for the big boat, they took us out to the bigger boat by smaller boats - it wasn't a huge crowd on the boat so we had lots of room to walk around. Drinks were served but I didn't participate because the Ladies Room on the boat was pretty disgusting!!! But the guys had fun and some of us danced!

One of the deck hands was selling items and I ended up buying a Tigers Eye necklace and bracelet that is really pretty!

Unfortunately, there was no sunset due to just too many clouds......oh well............

After sailing around for quite a while, we once again crawled into the smaller boats and headed to shore at another location! Dinner was to be served on the beach at the Oasis Restaurant - they had tables and chairs and lights all set up and it was so pretty! A local band was playing and they had a fire thrower showing off his skills! All in all, it WOULD have been a great time except for the fact we were starving and they didn't serve dinner to us for over an hour!! Complaining didn't seem to help either...........

But one fun thing we DID do on the beach around the fire was to burn 2 of our farm notes that are getting paid off this year!!! HOORAY!!!

Our fish dinner was good but by that time we were all tired and ready to head back to our hotel - transportation was by van or truck - 4 of us crawled into the back end of the open air truck and sat on benches as we went back to our resort - only in Mexico........ha ha.........To Be Cont'd