The room at Sand castles was nice. It was on the third floor, no elevator, so we didn’t bring up the suitcases or anything for the first night. It was warm though. There was air conditioning in the bedroom, but not the main room. I took a nap…I had a head ache…and then we went out and drove a bit through St. Croix, had dinner, and picked up a few things from K-Mart. That night we watched part of Harry Potter and the CoS on TV.
Paul called us later that evening and apologized. Our cottage would be available the next day, and he would give us this first night free (as in, they paid for our room at Sandcastles but didn’t charge us for it). He accidentally had us penciled in for September!
As it turns out, this was a good thing!!! Carnival was booked so we got a cottage called Coconut. It is brand new (not even listed on the website yet). It is on the second floor and looks over the ocean as well (If you look on the map, on the website Cottages by the Sea Our unit was built above the “Cruzan” unit. And in this case, new is very, very good. The unit is like a big studio, with the kitchen, sitting room, and bedroom basically in one room, so everything is air conditioned. AND our unit has glass windows (we think these new ones are the only 2 units with glass) This is good because we can keep our blinds open and see the ocean with the air conditioning on, as opposed to the other units that appear to just have screens and wooden slats that need to be closed to use the air conditioning!
The room is an ocean view as well, and is an upgrade from what we had.
So, we are very lucky, everything turned out great, and we are very happy!
So this morning we went out to do grocery shopping ( we didn’t shop last night because we wanted to be able to put it right into the unit we were staying in). Then we moved in to our beautiful unit and unpacked. We met the dog, and understood the signs that say “please do not feed the dog” as the dog is a fat little porker. Paul said she’s very friendly, but is so use to paying attention to people who have food that she doesn’t tend to hang around long.
Then we walked down the steps, and took about 30 steps in to our front yard and went straight into the ocean…yeah, life’s rough!
We did some snorkeling and swimming.
We had dinner at the café next door, on a patio on the beach. You can not beat the ambience. The tables were on a patio with white lights on the patio cover and the waves lapping in a few feet away. Grant had Mahi Mahi, very fresh, he said, and I had Past with sun dried tomatoes, artichokes and olives. Yummy!
I am going to post this now. Talk to you tomorrow!
Oh 2 more things:
1) lizards everywhere, even in your room sometimes, like the geckos in Hawaii.
2) As if we needed anymore proof that our unit is perfect, right outside of it, along the staircase, is a huge plumeria tree!
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