Besides seeing Santa, day three was great for a few reasons. October 11th is our anniversary. We have been married for 14 years and I love Brad more than ever. This was originally going to be a trip for just us but we decided to take the kids along, and I'm glad we did, but we were able to celebrate just the two of us when we went out to eat the night before without the kids. And it was also Thanksgiving. And I had so many things to be thankful for; a wonderful husband who loves and supports me and our kids (and takes us on great vacations where it is warm and sunny), being able to be somewhere warm and sunny, my four fantastic kids who I love, all the rest of my family, my health, my home, being able to be a stay at home mom and the list goes on and on. And I was thankful for this day where we just relaxed and had a lot of fun at our resort. Here's a few pictures.
Billy and Adam loved snorkeling, especially Adam. We had a reef a little ways off our beach where they snorkeled and there where also some rock pools just down the way where there were tons of fish, and that is where I enjoyed snorkeling for sea shells.
Later on they played a game at the pool where they had to jump off the side and try to catch the football in mid air. Here is one of Adam's attempts, he caught it.
And then there was just some pool fun.
Then they brought in Poncho. Poncho was the donkey. You could dress up and get your picture sitting on Poncho (for a small fee, of course). I settled for a shot from a distance of a pat on the head.
We went out to eat that night at the Seaside Grill. The food was great and we even tried some escargot. There was mixed reviews from the kids but I'm glad they tried it. I really wanted them to try some new things while we were on our holiday as it was all you could eat and I didn't have to worry about whether or not they liked something. If they didn't, we could just order another or get more from the buffet. And we did try a few different things. But even if we thought we were ordering something normal we were in for a surprise. Check out Amy's shrimp ceasar salad. It was a piece of lettuce with cheese and dressing on it through a very large crouton with shrimp on the side. Cool!
Next, it was the Mexican show at the theater. Lovely costumes, great dancing, we all really enjoyed it.
During or after each of they shows, they asked for volunteers for contest or to help out, like Adam and the clown, the roper had some guys come up and try to rope, etc. Well this night, they asked for three guys to come up on stage. No one really went, so Brad got up and finally two others. While they were on their way up, the guy says "Don't worry, it not a beer drinking contest" Whew! They get up on stage and he says "It's Tequila!" Oh no! So Martin says (he the guy from the entertainment team) "You have to say '.......' (something in Spanish), drink the shot of tequila, and make your best bandito face."
So the first guy goes, makes his attempt at the face and then it is Brads turn. He says to Martin "I don't drink".
"Oh yeah right"
"No really, I don't drink"
"Whatever"
So Brad goes ahead and attempts the Spanish, ignores the drink and makes the face and they move on to the next guy. Well, it turns out that for their tequila drinking, bandito face making contest, they got two out of three Mormons (number 87 didn't drink as well). It was quite ironic. Brad ended up winning the contest after a vote for the best face and we made some new friends, Jacob and Alma and their three girls. And that's the end of day three.
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