Tuesday, 3/19

A stroll-down-the-beach day.  We were again warned that the little store was not yet opened, but had the good luck to draw the same shuttle driver.  He needed no explanation THIS day, and sent us off to the shoreline with the salutation, "WONDER Women!!"  If only...

But another beautiful day on the sand, many fewer people around and no pets.  We kept company with the ocean birds and the surf, and spent a greater percentage of our walk on dry sand this time due to more vendor stalls being in place already. 

We had noticed "breathing holes" in the sand earlier, but this morning Linda actually saw some critter moving down into the sand.  While we couldn't catch enough of a view to identify it, but the sand spray it left behind was ample testimony to its strong motivation to disappear from view.

No matter, we got to the south end of our property and fell happily into two well-shaded chairs.  By that time (and place) there was more activity on the beach, notably a father-and-young-son enjoying a shoreline horseback ride.  The child was snuggled in front of Dad on the saddle, and seemed pretty cool to the idea in the beginning.  But by the time the horse was led past our view for the third and then fourth time, clearly he was enjoying things.

We spent some time exploring the amenities on this end of the property, then bussed back to the room to shower and return to productive pastimes ... needlework, reading, another EuroRails (Carolyn won this time with a big delivery to Madrid).  Dinner turned out to be vegetarian ... an assortment of whatever was in the 'frig, and right tasty.  No sooner had we sat down to it, though, the power went out!  There was still light in the sky, and it seemed that the entire neighborhood had gone dark.

Before we could complete our contingency planning, the ceiling light in the dining room came back on.  In a few minutes, the stovetop and its hood fan plus the other lights kicked in.  We concluded that there was a reliable two-stage recovery plan in place for our venue, though the neighbors on the beach appeared to in for a difficult night...several buildings didn't even have their roof lights on to warn air traffic.  While looking things over, we realized there was a lovely sunset & cloud formation out there:

Don't worry, that "melting" building in the right-center of the first photo is NOT, in fact, about to fall over.  Though it continues to worry us JUST A LITTLE   :)

Whatever hit the grid didn't hit the news, so we just snuggled into a good sleep.