October 2021 – Day 4

Day 4 of 5 days on the beach and today was once again a wonderful day, high of 83 and just a little windy.

We were down to the beach at 9am and to our surprise it was almost vacant.   By mid-morning people started to come in; however, it was never crowed like the weekend.  Usually, it does not matter what day, the beach is always busy.

We stayed on the beach for an additional hour and at 1:00pm we came in and went to lunch.

Lunch was at a place called the Carrot and we had been there before in April and it is a neat little ethic place in Sunny Isle Beach’s downtown.

We had an Ahi Tuna wrap on Pita.  It was good, but a little dry as they had taken all the fat out of it.  We did have Mango Smoothie and it was very good.

Back at the hotel we filled out a damage report for some paint scratch on the back left fender that we believe happened the first night in the parking garage.  Hopefully, they will take care of it.

We did our COVID rapid test and we are negative and good to board!!!  Yea!!  Happy dance.  We were sure we were fine, but . . .

WE ate dinner tonight at a Russian/Jewish restaurant and we probably had the best dinner and the best service for this trip.  We are planning on going back there for lunch tomorrow.

We are looking forward to tomorrow, our last full day on the beach as on Wednesday we board our ship, the Celebrity Equinox for a 9-day cruise.

Our good friends Barb & Tim Freeman from Virginia will be joining us.

Barb is a travel agent and Tim is an ex-Air Force pilot and Lt Cornel.  He currently works for a major defense contractor and heads a division in Alabama that is a sub-contractor for the SpaceX project.

While their home is in Haymart VA, Time commutes weekly to Alabama flying his own twin-engine plane.  It is always fun to get together with them and they both play blackjack also.

So, we will see them Wednesday after check-in on the back of the ship for lunch – as is our custom.

Night for now – we hope everyone feels as blessed as we do.

Going our for lunch

Lunch - tuna on a pita

A BMW Roadster parked at the hotel

                                                            Dinner - Tuna, Veggies and potato fries

                                                                    A Mango drink for dinner

                                                            Choclate Souffle for desert

                                      A write up on the Anquilla Resort across the street from us.

It is a hotel and a condinimun.  Basic hotel room rates are $1,600.00 plus taxes and fees for 1 night.

Condo apartments start at $870,000 for a 710 sq ft 1 bedroom apartment up to $4,000,000 for a 5 bedroom 4,415 sq ft apartment.  They are building a 4th building for only condos called The Estates and the prices start at 9.2 million up to 22 million!!