As readers will know, the Burds received a handfull of goodies for enduring a "presentation" at their hotel. The jungle tour, described in a previous post was well used and yesterday the rest of the package was cashed in.
The two free massages at the Spa were, according to Doreen - "great!". But before getting to that we had to buy half-price all inclusive packages at the front desk. $33.00 for a full day of meals, drinks and entertainment was the hit. Getting into the buffet breakfast it was decided that Doreen and her brother Charles would take up the free massages and Manon would sit by the pool and Ben would catch up on the cyberspace stuff, back in the room. Ben also regaled M&C with his exploits the previous evening. B&D had been invited to 'an owners meeting'. D did not want to go and B finding nothing on TV trekked on down, found the farmers from Vermont and preceeded to go through the usual stuff - hosts telling us what great people we were, invitations to eat the food, drink free drinks and chat with new friends. Then the entertainment - us. The host wheedled and whined and finally got some volunteers to go to the front for his games. Sensing he was missing one male he looked for a sap willing to be plucked from the cozy confines of the back of the room to be embarrassed by some silly game. He found one - Ben. "You Senor, sitting at the back of the room." obviously without an escort - an easy mark. Playing the game I approached the play area and proceeded to receive basic foot step dance intructions. Having mastered this we moved into a small game of "Tequila means dance, whiskey means change partners and Rum means STOP!" Cutting a long story short, another unknown women manged to survive them all. She received a tee-shirt and I got a free pass to "Swim with the dolphins" The kicker being that we could only use it if we bought a matching ticket, $69.00 - no dice.
Breakfast done and determined to extract maximum value for the all-inclusive, we stayed at the pool knocking back beers, strwberry margeritas and pina coladas. Looking around it was noticed that everyone else was doing the same but the smart ones were getting their Canadian Tire mugs filled - the largest ones seemed to be favoured. Spa done, drinks done, it was time to walk to the hotel where D's sister was staying - a fifteen minute walk, accomplished in five by using the bus! Hey it was hot.
Back at the hotel, after walking to the mall to get a decal for C's new car, it was supper time. Pigging out on the buffet again it was time to watch the "International Night" A stage show put on by the hotel's activity staff. When these kids sleep one can only guess - work the pool all day and then act until 9pm and beyond. Not really chuffed by this Mike Nd Molly on channel 31 was more appealing.
Down to the front desk to remove the purple wrist bands that entitled us to all the goodies and the day was done.
The two free massages at the Spa were, according to Doreen - "great!". But before getting to that we had to buy half-price all inclusive packages at the front desk. $33.00 for a full day of meals, drinks and entertainment was the hit. Getting into the buffet breakfast it was decided that Doreen and her brother Charles would take up the free massages and Manon would sit by the pool and Ben would catch up on the cyberspace stuff, back in the room. Ben also regaled M&C with his exploits the previous evening. B&D had been invited to 'an owners meeting'. D did not want to go and B finding nothing on TV trekked on down, found the farmers from Vermont and preceeded to go through the usual stuff - hosts telling us what great people we were, invitations to eat the food, drink free drinks and chat with new friends. Then the entertainment - us. The host wheedled and whined and finally got some volunteers to go to the front for his games. Sensing he was missing one male he looked for a sap willing to be plucked from the cozy confines of the back of the room to be embarrassed by some silly game. He found one - Ben. "You Senor, sitting at the back of the room." obviously without an escort - an easy mark. Playing the game I approached the play area and proceeded to receive basic foot step dance intructions. Having mastered this we moved into a small game of "Tequila means dance, whiskey means change partners and Rum means STOP!" Cutting a long story short, another unknown women manged to survive them all. She received a tee-shirt and I got a free pass to "Swim with the dolphins" The kicker being that we could only use it if we bought a matching ticket, $69.00 - no dice.
Breakfast done and determined to extract maximum value for the all-inclusive, we stayed at the pool knocking back beers, strwberry margeritas and pina coladas. Looking around it was noticed that everyone else was doing the same but the smart ones were getting their Canadian Tire mugs filled - the largest ones seemed to be favoured. Spa done, drinks done, it was time to walk to the hotel where D's sister was staying - a fifteen minute walk, accomplished in five by using the bus! Hey it was hot.
Back at the hotel, after walking to the mall to get a decal for C's new car, it was supper time. Pigging out on the buffet again it was time to watch the "International Night" A stage show put on by the hotel's activity staff. When these kids sleep one can only guess - work the pool all day and then act until 9pm and beyond. Not really chuffed by this Mike Nd Molly on channel 31 was more appealing.
Down to the front desk to remove the purple wrist bands that entitled us to all the goodies and the day was done.
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