Longest Travel Day Finally Ends

After a long 36-hour travel day everyone was accounted for. At first Jon complained that his parents had such a late flight but in the end it worked out for the best.

We arrived around 3:00 in the afternoon with the expectation that our house would be ready to go at 4:00 pm. Well expectations need to be severely adjusted because Buffett was right when he sang about Island life being laid back and in no rush. Our house was a mess. I started to have doubts that this was going to be paradise. The house was in bad shape and less than impressive. The host opened up the house so we could put our baggage inside and assured us she'd call the cleaners. We decided to go downtown and get something to eat while we waited.

This is when I fell in love with Island life. We sat on a shady patio with decent food and a cool breeze. The people watching was enough to keep us entertained for quite some time. Little Bear chased pigeons and even saw a man, who Jon swears was here 10 years ago, carrying and showing off two large iguanas to the locals and tourists alike. Little Bear is hoping every day that we'll see the lizards again. We asked some locals and they confirmed Jon's declaration that it was in deed the same guy. I have to admit, I'd like a photo of that.

After more than an hour of dining and people watching we got a text that the cleaners would not return today and that our host would put us up in an apartment. We went back to the resort and moved our things to the apartment after spending a good 20 minutes searching the complex in the dark. The apartment didn't have towels and dirty sheets strewn about but the floor and almost every surface was covered in a thin layer of brownish dust. Yuk! But at this point we were all pushing 37 hours of waking time and I didn't really care. The beds were made and seemed fairly clean.

Before we could fall into bed however, we had to go pick up Grandma and Papa from the airport. Jon and I agreed that it was probably for the best that they were not the ones to arrive first and find the messy house. So after the longest travel day I've ever had, we picked up the in-laws with no trouble and finally crashed for the night.

This is the view I woke up to the next morning. Things were looking up...