Day 105: Reptile Show — Trash for Mock-Mojitos — Dinner at the Lighthouse Bar — Early Bedtime
We hit the breakfast buffet at the Oyster Box then came back to the room with the intention of doing a couple hours of school. Willa had a meltdown that resulted from some combination of post-safari exhaustion, refusal to accept being back on a daily homeschool program and journal writers block.
After a lot of tears she climbed up to her top bunk and slept for 90 minutes — and that was after she had slept more than 11 hours last night.
James and I took a tennis ball out to the little patch of grass in from the of the hotel. It was super windy and we promptly lost the ball in the vines.
We went back to the hotel restaurant for lunch, then Margaret took Willa and James to a kids club reptile show in a hotel conference room.
No thank you! Margaret graciously gave me a pass on that one so I took my iPad to the Lighthouse Bar for some personal time.
I then met Margaret and the kids on the beach where they were taking the hotel up on their offer: collect a bucket of garbage and exchange it for a free milkshake or cocktail. It was windy and starting to rain so we only stayed long enough to collect the trash.
We went back to the room for a couple hours. The kids were still tired and being suuuper annoying so we turned on Disney Junior in their room which tranquilizer them immediately. We took some time to relax, read and write.
We went upstairs to the Lighthouse Bar for early dinner and drinks. The kids decided they wanted to cash in their free drink coupons for a “mocktail” Mojito. They couldn’t believe their eyes or their luck when two MASSIVE drinks arrived. Margaret and I had Gin and Tonics.
We played some cards, ordered an Indian food sampler and people watched a funny combo of three generation families on holiday at the hotel mixed with locals gussied up for Saturday night dates.
Someone had used the lighthouse to help pop the question.
Another early bedtime, trying to catch up from the lack of sleep over the last couple weeks.
