Dinner, May 2, 2009

The room's nice. Top floor, center, just like she said. Room's warm, we're still adjusting to this new humid climate, so some AC would be nice. Oh great, it has one of those lovely motion detector thermostats I like so much. Also likely to be the "dummy" kind that tries to tell you the temperature in the room is 10 degrees cooler than it actually is. More on that later. We stock up on supplies at the resort general store and have some nice wine and goat cheese on the terrace to celebrate our arrival. It's still early, so we go down to the pool and check out that scene. The pools are lovely (there are 3), including one adults only pool that is far less interesting than it sounds. The drink and food prices are outrageous, but that doesn't stop us from ordering some, a little first day indulgence. We head back upstairs to decide on dinner.

We looked at a few menus for resort restaurants, and the room service one doesn't look all that bad. They arrive a little late (in fact the turn-down crew got there at the very same moment, so we had quite a party). The room service guy was nice, he set us up on the balcony with a nice tablecloth. I got the macadamia-nut encrusted mahi-mahi, Diane had a prawn sandwich. Very good, plus a nice spinach salad that I ate most of and a Napa chardonnay from the store downstairs made for a nice night.