Resort Life

This Saturday we treated ourselves to one night at the Bay Gardens Beach Resort (the resort we always steal pool time at). We found a deal on Jetsetter for a very inexpensive night in a “deluxe garden view room” (the cheapest room). We expected to have a room in the back, which was fine because we planned on spending our time at the beach, and by the pool.

Thanks Bay Gardens!

We arrived at the hotel around 10:30 and were greeted with complimentary rum and punches. Not a bad way to start off the day! The bellhop showed us to our room and when he opened the door we could not contain our excitement. A “deluxe garden view room,” in fact, means a beautifully decorated room with a lanai that looks out over the ocean. In the folds of the towels, pillows, and toilet paper fresh flowers were placed. The shower had two heads, as well as two jets.

View from the Lanai

Tigers in the Shower

As much as we were in love with the room, we headed down to sit by the pool. We much prefer the comfortable lawn chairs by the pool opposed to the painful ones on the beach. And in this day and age we feel more comfortable keeping our ‘much needed’ electronics out of the sand.

1. kindles
2. ipods
3. cameras


However when it comes to cooling off, you’ll bet we are in the sea. As we swam around we noticed two of the neon polo boys were also in the water- thankfully they left the shirts at home. They were obviously trying to throw their ball just a little too far into our swimming zone, and after a while of watching this interesting human ritual… we took the hint and fetched one of their “overthrows.” After talking to them we learned they were of similar age and in St. Lucia for two weeks partying and playing cricket. There are 21 of them and they are all from Sheffield “Uni” as they call it.

Obviously, enthralled by their british accents we left it at “maybe we’ll see you out tonight.”

2 for 1!

We decided we wanted to enjoy the sunset with a fruity-girly beverage. Elektra ordered a piano colada and Maddie a mango margarita. Although, when they brought the drinks out there was a total of four! Little did we know that at Happy Hour you got two for the price of one! Yippee! And for future reference we noted that they DO NOT take down your room number when ordering

Sunset

NOM NOM dinner

After evading the ever-present beach rasta-men (who we even had to avoid later in the night) we took a rest on our comfortable mattresses in our air conditioned room. For dinner we walked to the “Jerk Pit” which is a St. Lucian version of a taco truck. We shared some jerk chicken, fried chicken and fries. Don’t hate- we eat healthy all week!


We spent the night at Delirious… our new discovery. The scene includes what we think are St. Lucian “hipsters,” foreigners, and a dabble of beach Rasta’s. Of course we immediately ran into the cricket players and spent the night learning random things about England and shaping up our cricket knowledge (none).

Did you know there are two different English accents from the north and south? Apparently, if you are from the south you are more “Posh.”

Shout out to Tom/Ollie… thanks for the beverages.

At the end of the night we entered our beloved hotel and went to sleep remembering fondly of the night.

Sunday morning we woke up to blasting music from the garden area. We decided we needed some coffee and pancakes, and went down to the hotel restaurant and got a decently priced and very delicious meal.

Comfy beds!

We were sad to check out of luxury but they allowed us to keep our bags behind the counter while we hit the beach for the day. We hung out under the shade of an umbrella and read. Maddie is currently reading ‘The Girl who Played with Fire’ and Elektra, after just finishing ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, is reading Tina Fey’s ‘Bossypants’ and has occasional outbursts of laughing- so far, we haven’t had any strange looks.

We had a very relaxing day, and got home and went to sleep very early.