I’ve never seen so much food in my life! Breakfast is an orgy of everything you could ever desire to eat. Ok fine, they didn’t have baby seal (which is both tender and tasty) and dolphin was off the menu today, but everything else was here. From every conceivable cereal, to flapjacks, cold meats, fruits, cheeses, breads breads breads, French toast, eggs made a zillion ways, juices, pastries... I was in heaven.
We started slow like and worked our way up, put some real effort into it, you know? By the time the shooting stopped I must have packed on 3 Kg’s. Back at the room Mattie finished packing while we headed to the car. Heh, yeah. Battery dead. While Mattie brings his luggage I grab the spare keys for the Ford from the cubby and park it next to the Bullet, get the jumper cables out at proceed to refresh Annelie on the finer points of jump starting a car. That done, we decide to park the car on a hill so that we can at least running start the thing tomorrow, when Mattie isn’t around anymore. Else, whatever, we can always get a jump from anyone.
Mattie drops us off at the entertainment centre and we say our goodbyes and farewells! Then, it was just the two of us, free to do as we please! So we hit the games arcade pretty hard, playing EVERY video game in there. Turns out Annelie really, really likes Dance Dance revolution, too bad the machine was busted so it wouldn’t register the “back” steps on player 1 and the “front” step on player 2. But we laughed our asses off anyway. Then she realised that you get tickets for some of these games, and that you can trade these in for prizes. Groan... the prizes are all rubbish but try explaining that to a 7 year old (yes, I mean Annelie). More games and 60 tickets later she got the little plastic rubix cube key holder she simply had to have.
Next, we headed to the valley of waves. Good thing we took the trouble to do the bridge “thing” yesterday, because it’s down for maintenance. The Valley of Waves has this whole theme cantered around the Lost City, so everything looks like an Indiana Jones film set, Temple of Doom / Mayan / Tomb raider-esq. Quite well done, in my humble opinion. The water park features a big wave pool and artificial tropical beach, 5 water slides, a “lazy river” chill... thing... and shops, rentals and the like. On the Cabanas side, where we live, they have a dam where you can do waterskiing, jet-skis, parachute sailing (or whatever the heck it’s called).
Anyway, we decide to hit the big slide first (I forget the name, but they each have one like Tarantula, Viper, Mamba and so on). I wait at the bottom to snap pictures as she comes crashing down the 10 meter sheer drop, eventually coming to a standstill as the water breaks her momentum. Water gets in everywhere.... trust me on that one. I follow suit, because I’d have to show solidarity. Fak me, the water is freezing! It’s sunny out, but not warm by any means. We decide to stow the camera and gear in the rental lockers and hit the inner tube slides next. At the bottom you pick up a blue inflatable tube, carry it up the steps to the top and them slide down either an open or a totally enclosed water slide. I get SUPER motion sick on the closed one, since it turns me around and around and around... bleh. We do the other one as well, before we move on the last 2, which are just straight water slides.
The Mamba (I remember this one) is the enclosed one, and it takes 10 seconds to drop 15 meters! By the time I reach the bottom of this one, I am done for the day, vision swimming. This used to be a whole lot easier when we were kids!
Annelie goes down the last slide, so now at least she’s been on everything and we can go reheat in the sun on the beach. It takes me a while to get back to normal, a Savannah goes down well and helps things on a bit.
By the afternoon we mosey on up to the entertainment centre again and kill off the last few tokens I had left on a racing game or three. I try to convince my darling wife that I HAVE to see Transformers: Rise of the Decepticons but I fail. She promises me that should we have a chance in any of the other towns we’ll be passing through on the way home, we can see it together.
Dinner is at Santorini again, because at least we know what we’re in for. I have some delicious ribs, and Annelie had a calamari salad. Back to the hotel again and back to bed.
Today was a really good day for us and we got to spend some real quality time together. It actually felt like a solid holiday. Looking very much forward to breakfast again tomorrow. Ima gonna order a moose burger!
Highlights: Quality time, baby, quality time
Breakfast man, breakfast!
*drum roll, cymbal, cymbal, cymbal, hi-hat-hi-hat-hi-hat*
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