a whale of a time

I heart being on vacation.  Doing nothing will never get old.

AM routine, same old same old (glass of lactose free milk, followed by a mug of cafe con “leche”).

With no real agenda for the day, we spent the morning lazing about on the sun deck and roof.  Later, my parents ditched us for a Costco shopping spree, so my sister and I headed to the beach.  I grabbed an apple for the road. 

Rather than get harassed by vendors every five seconds (like yesterday) on the public beach, we decided to go to our gated community’s private beach.  It’s also closer, which was a big selling point, since we were walking there.

Prior to leaving, we had a brilliant plan all laid out – walk to the beach, get some sun, hitch a ride home from the ‘rents (they said shopping would only take them a few hours).  I’m not sure how or why, but somewhere along the way the plan broke down (even though it was very clearly organized before they took the car in the first place).  Pretty soon it was 2:30 and there was still no trace of my parents…communication gap?  I think so!  I had to pee, my stomach was growling, my non-text savvy parents were MIA, but we were really trying desperately to avoid having to hike it back up the hill.   Eventually we had to accept the impending trek, so we packed everything up and up, up, and away we went.  Ugh.  No work out necessary after that. 

Yes, my parents were at home when we finally made it back…completely oblivious!  They made it up to us by taking us to Los Quesadillas for lunch. 

The obligatory chips and guacamole…YUM!

Since I was stuffed with guac I split and order of fish tacos with my sis.  The fish was battered and fried (not typically my cup of tea) but I’m on vacay, so what the hell.

Piled with refried beans, guac, and salsa = heavenly 🙂

Whale watching time!!!  In the afternoon/early evening we took a speedboat dinghy out to try and find some whales.

I can’t even put into words how cool this was.  We were SOOO close to them, and they are HUGE!!!  That’s the tail popping out of the water in the pic below.

Not to mention the sunset was pretty spectacular.  

I like this one because of the pirate ship in the background.  We were on a tiny speedboat, so we could follow the whales much easier than the other ships.  Plus, at times we were practically next to them.  There is no zoom on these pics, we were actually that close.  It was so so so cool. 

We got back home pretty late, but not too late for hot tubbing with some vino :)   Since my sis wanted to watch the Golden Globes, we decided to buy food and kick it at the villa for the night.

Pre-dinner apps.  The kiwi was the best part of the platter, so juicy and sweet.  I think I ate all but 2 of the slices!  Don’t worry, I did some serious damage to the chips and guac, too…

Some fish on the barby…

Our balcony dining set up.

I was in charge of the salad :)  Look how colorful!!!

On my plate is a bit of fish, wild rice, and salad.  I only had seconds of salad, and wine (times 3).

We chatted, played games, and watched the golden globes for the rest of the night.  No work out today, and I feel great!  I’m totally sore in all these weird places from yesterday’s jetskiing (mostly my inner thighs from squeezing my sister for dear life).  Time for zzzzzzz!