Spring 2015 - Day 3

We got up late (9:00am) as we had no plans except to get up, go out on the beach, eat lunch, relax and eat again.

How is that for elaborate plans!! 

This is a wonderful day as we actually had no plans to do or go anywhere – so it is a day for relaxing.

We finally left the room for the beach at 10:00am.  This beach is really beautiful and the staff is great about bringing lounging chairs and a table to wherever you want them to be.  The hotel tower is 21 stories tall so if you want to stay on the beach for the entire day, you have to move once to not be in the shadow of the hotel as the sun move.

We stayed on the beach until 12:30pm and then ate lunch on the outdoor patio of a small hotel next to ours –good food and not very expensive.  We wanted to stay longer but the sun was just too hot and we could feel we were starting to burn.

 
Tonight we ate at another restaurant Jeff and Vera have picked out, and it is called “Zest” and it is the Water Beach Club Hotel, another hotel located by where they are all staying.  So, we took a cab there arriving at 8:30pm for dinner.  The write-up for the restaurant said that it is “a modern-latino cuisine menu featuring sustainability-sourced ingredients.”
 

It had been voted the #1 restaurant on in that part of San Juan – and it was an outstanding.  All of the portions were small but very, very good and very unusual.  For soup we had popcorn soup!  Barb will have to describe it in person to you all later.

  After dinner, we went up to their roof top deck – two stories at the top of the hotel all in white, including a pool – it was the “in” place to be but we didn’t stay!!

We all went our separate ways and we came back to our hotel and gambled a little and had some free drinks.  The good news is that off the 4 gambling sessions today and yesterday, we were totally up –one of the best stays at this hotel.  So, a great start for tomorrow.

 Then it was time to go to sleep as tomorrow we board the cruise ship – The Celebrity Summit.

Going out to lunch



Time for dinner



Appetizers - from the bottom - Lamb Ossobucco Empanadas, Middle - Popcorn Soup (Kettle Corn, Truffle butter, chives - served hot over the popcorn), Ycua - Ricotta Gnocchi (Calabaza cream sauce, parmesan crisp) 

On the rooftop of the restaurant