First day by the pool. Got burned; quite badly. With the sea breeze flowing, a few drinks and spending all day in the pool, it was easy to forget how hot the sun is. Zachary’s mostly ok, but we’ll certainly be more diligent with sun lotion applying than we have been. Factor 50 all round, I think, and applied at least every hour.
Learned from another tourist that the German method of claiming the best sun loungers works: put your towels on them. I make a note to set my alarm for 3am, so we can get the ones we want which have a complete sun canopy – perfect for small children.
Zachary’s fear of the water has returned. He’s happy mostly doing ‘monkey arms’ around the pool. He’s not confident enough to let go of us and jump to the other, and really doesn’t like going under. This is at complete odds to our last holiday. I hope he improves as the week progresses.
I’m still thinking that arm bands would be better for him, they would enable him to float by himself, and then use his energy to propel himself forward. Emma hates armbands, but without them, he’s pretty much reliant on us for any forward motion. We will see.
Ate at the Mexican restaurant; booking is advised, but they were able to squeeze us in. Result. Food was ok, as were the two guys playing guitar for the diners. My attempts to convince Emma to go up and play ‘Amazing Grace’ were ignored. I managed to squirt lime juice in my eye while attempting to squeeze the slice into my Korona beer. Emma laughed.
With the price of the food and drink, we’ve decided to take the all-inclusive option – $98 USD/pppn. I’ll sign up for this tomorrow morning.