March 17

We’re still happily married !!! (Mark: very)
This morning we finally felt rested enough to do something other than sleep. We took our snorkelling equipment with us to breakfast. I have taken a liking to freshly squeezed orange juice in the mornings. After breakfast, we headed to the beach where we could do some snorkelling. It took a while to figure out how everything was supposed to go, but after a while off we went. We didn’t snorkel for too long since we had not been in the sun much yet and we didn’t want to get sunburned. We went to the restaurant for lunch. On the way back, we walked past the spa and decided to see what the honeymoon package included. It sounded nice, so we signed up for that afternoon. Until 4:30, we decided a nap would be nice.

We got to the spa on time, and we began an experience to remember! We started out in an area that had a small, cool pool, a shower, and a steam room. We were left there for 30 minutes to begin relaxing.

We had robes to put on when the lady knocked on the door to get us. We then went into a massage room with 2 tables. We got simultaneous full body massages. They were definitely meant for relaxation and not deep tissue, but they were good (Mark: They were the most dodgie massages I have ever had!!! – but Julia looks great in that loin cloth they gave us to wear!!!). This was followed by a wrap with some oatmeal looking substance. It was very cooling, but then they wrapped us like in a cocoon. We don’t know how long they left us, but Mark and I were both ready to finish up by the time they got back (I got quite Closter phobic, but if you moved it was very hard to get back situated like you were before). When the ladies got back, Mark and I were shown to a shower where we could get all the junk off of us. They finished up the time with some fresh fruit and flavoured tea. We knew that dinner was close, so we took the fruit back to the room and put it in the refrigerator. After dinner tonight, the resort hosted crab races. They had people who went and gathered up hermit crabs. For $5 entry fee, you could choose a crab to race for you. We chose 2: #37 and #62. They raced 10 crabs at a time, and the winner of each race went on to the final race. Well, we were disappointed when neither of our crabs won their race, but then they said that there would be a second race for all the crabs that had lost the first race, and the “winner of the losers” would also get a prize. So, the second race began – it was pretty much impossible to find your crab amongst all the others, but we had chosen the smallest runt for one of ours. So we got excited when a really small one won…and it was #62. That was quite cool! We won a bottle of Rosé. What a great ending to a great day…