Days 3 and 4 in Antigua

Well I'm starting to not remember everything quite as clear from last week...sooo I'll try and remember the exciting parts!

Monday day 3, actually I have NO clue what we did during the day, it was either hanging out at the beach or hanging out at the pool. So we did one of those. Then they had a scavenger hunt for returning guests. We thought it would be like the one last year where you have to find stuff and take pics of it on your digital camera. But no, we just had to run around the resort and find balloons, that had point amounts int them, and bring them back where they would pop them and add up the points to determine the winner. There is this big obnoxious guy there, who is telling us all that we are living on his land for free, because he is an Indian and he was here first, then he starts bringing up politics and other things, so I just decided to walk away from him. He's being a jackass, and you can tell everyone is annoyed...Its time to start...Art and I split up and go running once they say go. I find one right away and then go into the pub where I find three more balloons, I don't want to drop them so I stick them all in my shirt. It made everyone I passed by laugh alot, which is always good. We searched for another like 30 mins, art found 5, but I didn't find any other balloons after my initial four.

I go back and they start counting my balloons, and I'm holding my last one and the big indian man comes and takes it, I laugh like ha ha you are so funny. Then I'm like okay give it back, he says nope, it says where ever I find one and this is where I found it. All the employees are like give it back to her. We go back and forth for probably like 3-4 mins of him being a jerk. I tell him to give it back or I'm going to kick him somewhere, he says go ahead, then I'll stick my wife on you and she's 6 ft. I tell him I don't care how tall she is, cause I'll just sit on her. Then he's like it doesn't matter you're going to get second place just like at name that tune last night. Then he's like and second place is way worse than last.... REALLY ?? How do you figure, for second place I would get $100 gift certificate and he'd get nothing for last. Anyways, then the couple who won first place comes in, and they had a CRAP load of balloons.... They won a couples massage, but hey I'm still okay with the gift certificate. The big indian dude is still going on and on and on, and we just walk away. I now HATE this man. (I'm telling you, because he's in future posts)

That night they had Caribbean night at the beach with a big buffet out on the sand. We went to that and ate ALOT of food. :) After dinner we went to a fire dancing show. The guy was really good, and then he did limbo, and he went under the limbo bar at about 7 inches. It was INSANE!! I've never seen someone be able to bend like that before.

Tuesday Day 4. Again I'm not sure what we did during the day, beach and pool and lotsa drinks I'm assuming.... For dinner we headed to Kimonos, its Teppenyaki (sp??) style where they make it on the big grill thing right in front of you. We met The Dr's there ( Ryan and Ashley) and Glenn and Brittany who were getting married at the resort on Thursday. We chatted with them about all the sandals and all the cool things you can have your butlers do. They were the first people we had talked to who also had butler service. Then we found out that Glenn and Brittany were staying in the villas which I wanted to see, and that the Drs were staying in the penthouse which we wanted to see as well. Then come to find out they all wanted to see our Rondoval. So after dinner and dessert we went around and toured the rooms. Glenn and Brittanys villa was very nice, has a pool and private hot tub, which was sweet! And the Dr's had a room quite similar only they had an AMAZING view of the ocean ... So its like you pick a view, or a pool. I like pool, so I'm glad with our room still.

After this its time to head to the Lovers Game. This is a game that we all signed up for and then they'd pick 6 couples to play. Think the newlywed game. Embarrassing and hilarious. So we're sitting there talking to the other 2 couples, when all of a sudden I hear room 314...ohhhhh lordy...thats our room. Because of course, I mean OF COURSE, out of the 50 couples who signed up we'd be one of the 6 that is chosen. I'm instantly like, ohhhh no I think I'm going to throw up. We'd just met these nice couples, and had about 10 other couples of friends in the audience. Once we get up, all our friends start laughing hysterically and cheering. This is NOT good!!! So the way it works is the guys stay out and get asked q's first, while the women go into the bar so we can't hear. I won't tell you the answers or all of the questions...my parents read this for goodness sakes. So I may put a few risque ones in, but not all. :) so we are finally allowed to go back out, and its time for us to answer the same questions, whoever matches their lovers answers gets a point, who ever gets the most points wins.... easy enough right?? Wrong...

These are the questions they asked the guys, and we have to answer what we THINK they answered!

Q1) Whats your wifes bra size....okay I'm not telling everyone my bra size, but we were the only couple to get this WRONG!!! So now I'm like ohhhh no, what have we gotten ourselves into??

Q2) What item of clothing do you HATE when your lover wears... I have no clue, then Brittany mouths high heels..I'm like what, and she mouths it again, one of the other girls sees and goes CHEATER! The girl who's turn it is says high heels, and is right, so I assume its her answer too. But alas I say PJ's or sweats, and my answer was high heels...ughhh, another one wrong.

Q3) If you could get rid of one person in your wifes family who would it be. Now for obvious reasons, I'm not putting that up here, but alas...guess what...we got it WRONG!!! So we're 0 for 3 now...And we're the only ones who've been married over like 1 week. This is getting embarrassing.

Q4) Whats something you've been begging your lover for that they refuse to do. I'm thinking, hmmm well we've always been pretty clear on the things not happening, so I'm going to say nothing. So of course when its my turn I say, I'm awesome...nothing. And everyone is dying laughing. I get it right, and HOORAY we finally have one point. I can't tell you what the other couples said, but let me just say I was laughing so hard, I almost peed my pants. Play this game if you ever go to Sandals...

Now its reverse time. Ohhh wait, let me also say Art and I had been practicing questions all day just in case we get called, of course they don't ask any q's we had practiced. But our butler did tell us that they do a multiple choice one most times...So we agree we should just pick a letter no matter what and stick to it. I ask Art, but what if its humiliating, he says No, stick to the plan, we'll get over it, and it'll help us win... (you'll need to know that multiple choice part for later)

Okay so its guys turn to go into the bar, and girls turn to answer q's.

Q1) What is the weirdest gift he's ever given you. I answer nothing, we save for vaca's usually, and when he does buy gifts, they're pretty good.

Q2) If you could change one thing physically about your man, what would it be. I say his insanely large neck, because its impossible to buy dress shirts for.

Q3) what is something he does that drives you CRAZY and you wish he'd stop. Right after the host says this I'm like ohhh pick me pick me, I don't need to think about it. He comes over and I say, he's picky, he picks at everything, he's a pickypooh...thats what I call him

Q4) If you had to rate your lover which of the following MULTIPLE choice answers would you rate him as.

a- he's long and boring like to flight to antigua....yaaawwwnnn are we there yet, can I get some peanuts..

b- he's like the energizer bunny, he keeps going and going and going

c- BAM...he's wham bam thank you maam.

Okay sooooo....we'd already decided to go with A regardless of the answer. So as soon as he asks the question, I'm like dying, I drop my head and want to run away...but alas I stick to the plan and say A...the Crowd is like....huuuuuu, you know the noise of shock...no laughter here, the host is like man, you are MEAN!

So the guys come out to answer

Q1) Art says nothing...hoorrayyyyy a point, that makes two!

Q2) he says his nose...we get it wrong. Shocker, since we're totally LOSING! Two of the girls had answered stomach, and the guy from couple 6 was NOT happy when he heard this. If was quite funny to the rest of us!

Q3) Art is like, ohhhh I know this one, and he goes I'm a pickypooh...the crowd is dying laughing that he says the exact same thing, and the host is like, mannn what the hell is that. He explains.

Q4) Arts reaction is about the same as mine, head goes down in shame, and he answers a, and the crowd again is like totally shocked....We're sooo humiliated, and the new couples we've met are like, oh my gosh!!!

Anywho, to say the least we totally lost, then I had to go tell everyone about the multiple choice question, because they were all thinking, whats going on...so it was a hilarious night, even though we didn't win. So thats the end of day 3 and 4. The couples game was much more funny, but like I said, for OBVIOUS reasons, I'm not putting the answers from the other couples up here, because I think some people would not appreciate it, and I'm polite what can I say!

Days 1 and 2 in Antigua

Day one will go by pretty quick since we got to the resort around 4 and were in bed by 8. :) So we show up and it takes a while for check in. We're suppose to get to go into the special butler room, but no one takes us...sad. But I'll live, I'm in paradise. Finally our butler Cicell comes and gets us and takes us to our rondoval. Its the room I've been wanting to stay in forever, and at last I get to see it. Its an adorable little round house with our own private pool in back and big beautiful flowers all over. I love it! Its WAYYYY smaller than our previous rooms, but its adorable and only about 300 feet from the beach. I'm in heaven.

We tell the butler all the things we need, breakfast every morning at 9 and our order, and that we like to eat early for dinner, and that we want him to book all our dinners. So that night we go to Marios for dinner. We're practically zombies at dinner after our 27 hours of traveling with no sleep...so we decide after dinner its time for bed...We sleep a good 12 hours and wake up around 8:45 the next day...just in time to get our room service delivered and eat it out on our patio next to the pool. Now this is the life.

After breakfast its time to put on swimsuits and load up on sunblock and head to the beach. Its a beautiful HUGE beach, but it is public. Boo to this. Meaning anyone can walk around it, so there were kids wandering up and down the beach from the neighboring resorts, but they were pretty well behaved...so its all good. I just laid on the lounger for hours, its soooo beautiful that you can just let the entire day drift away while laying there watching the ocean and staring at all its beautiful colors. We decide to go up and go to the big pool for a while, and its a little cold. Not really, its just I was being a sissy. So we get in and have some drinks from the swim up bar, ahhhh now thats nice.

Next its time for dinner, so we get all dolled up and meet our other butler Maureen for the first time and she walks us over to our dinner where she has flowers all over the table for us, and its the restaurant on the beach. Its gorgeous. Arthur has a fun experience while at dinner. In Antigua there are a MILLION little lizard like gecko things, they're all over the place. Totally harmless and quite amusing to watch. Well during dinner, Art has something fall on his shoulder, swipes it off and looks down and its the body of a roach!!! Its moving all around, only it doesn't have a head, Art looks up and sees the little lizards chomping away on the roaches body, guess it wasn't hungry enough for the body! SICCKKKKK!!! So that was entertaining.

After dinner we saw Ken and Susan from the plane and sat with them for a while and just chatted and got to know them. After a little while its time for Name that Tune. So we decide we'll play. They have a DJ and a lady calling on people to answer it. Samantha was the employee with that job, well she keeps picking on the front table, and everyone is getting annoyed that she keeps picking them. She's suppose to call on the first hand she sees. Now granted they knew ALOT of songs that other people didn't....BUTTT they weren't always the first ones with their hands up. So the audience is getting annoyed, then the DJ tells her for everytime she calls on the wrong table she has to do a shot...so the audience gets into this, and keeps yelling shot shot shot, everytime we didn't like who she called on. So she keeps calling on the front table, and when its quiet for a second I yell...HEY TABLE ONE...and the lady turns around and I go...ITS ON, you're going down!!! She's like bring it...So we started a little fun war with them. Then me and Ken had to go up and dance to Michael Jackson in front of EVERYONE, thank goodness he offered to go up with me, there is no way Art was going up to dance. The crowd enjoyed Kens MJ moves. A little while later we had to go up and do the Macarana, which is always a crowd pleaser, so I went up and then pulled someone else with me.

Towards the end, they tell us they are going to do a tally on chips (everytime you got a song right, you got a chip) so all these people keep coming up to me going we want you to take out table one, so take our chips...I'm excited we might actually beat them. I've been glaring and talking trash to them all night, so it would be awesome to kick their butts...Well then I realize we're one chip away from tying with them, I look around and ask someone if I can have their chip and then the DJ is like CHEATER....you can't do that!!! Everyone was like yes she can, we gave them to her, so I took my chips up and tried to tie for first place...but the DJ wasn't having it...so then table one decided to start yelling SHOT SHOT SHOT!! ohhh no.....i do NOT do shots...yuck...but they keep going and eventually the DJ gets everyone to start chanting. Might I add this was not a normal size shot, but more like 8 oz of straight hard alcohol. I tell them I won't do it unless they admit we tied...they won't and I'm not getting off the hook here, I do the shot and its NASTY!!! Yuckkkkkk...Everyone cheers!

Name that tune is over and then a band comes out and starts playing and its dancing time. I make friends with Pam and Mary of table one, they were quite fun. Then I start a conga line and after that a limbo line....what can I say, I like to start things and make sure everyone is having fun. After starting those, I met alot of people and had lots of new friends, who as the week progressed would always glare at Pam and Mary of table one from the infamous name that tune night. I also got the nickname of troublemaker from that night...hmmm imagine that. After that it was definitely bed time, we'd had a great real first day, dancing, drinks, fake fights, limbo, conga line and a whole lot more. We were pooped.....

The airport, traveling, and all that jazz

Okay so this will be all about our travel to Antigua and Day one...Hope you've set aside some time to read read read.... :)

So we check in at PDX for the first leg of our flight, we'll have 2 layovers, first from PDX to Phoenix, then from there to Atlanta, and then from there to Antigua...A total of 26 hours of total travel.

On the way to Portland (a lovely 3 hour drive) we are cruising along, probably about 75 mph behind a Subaru when we see some lady passing a semi truck in our lane...I think man, she is REALLY close, when all of a sudden, she's NOT moving over, did I mention there was part of a lane empty on her side. The Subaru skids off into the gravel, fine but still had to run off the road, and then we followed as she wasn't moving. While we're flying through the gravel trying not to get in a wreck, the semi kicks up a huge rock right into my windshield, and CRACK it goes....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...I'm already freaking out that we almost went into the ditch, now those jerk offs cracked my windshield too...you've GOT to be kidding me! I'm pretty upset for the next 30 mins...okay over it. Then we're almost into Portland, and I'm driving along at about 80 and out runs a coyote into the middle of the road, and stops right in front of us to think about if he wants to continue. I slam on the breaks, as there is no where to go with the barricade in the middle and a car to my right....he runs off....my heart is racing again...but alas, we are fine. Thank goodness....

We get on our first flight and we're in the row behind the first row that is behind first class. So the lady from the airport gets on and asks the guy in front of us if he'll move so a family can sit together... he says I'm 6'8, I need the extra leg room, if you can get me into an exit row, I will, otherwise not...they didn't have that and she is like begging him, I tell her we'll move up if the lady next to us will take that other seat available so the family can sit together...now I'm doing this as it SUCKS to not get to sit together, and I thought a good deed would do me some good on a day of traveling.... ohhhhhh boy was I wrong.

On get a mom and her 3 kids, so she'll be holding one on her lap and the other two in the seats behind us. The chair kicking starts immediately. Then the 1 year old on her lap starts hitting Arthur on the top of his head, I turn and look at her and she laughs (the mom...like aren't they soooo cute) uhhhh no they aren't cute. Oh we hadn't even taken off yet, and its a little over 3 hour flight...ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... So the screaming then starts followed by ALOT more kicking of the chairs. She never tells them, ohhh no honey don't do that. Don't get me wrong, I know some kids are just bratty but when you let them do whatever they want, of course they aren't going to stop. Well then about an hour into the flight, some RANDOM passenger comes and sits with them. A very very VERY obnoxious lady who tells them they are such good kids, and starts throwing the baby up in the air, who then kicks my headrest about ohhhh 50 times. And the other kids is standing in front of the lady so I'm getting kicked in two places. LOVELY! They come with the drinks and I buy some baileys...Lord I am going to need some alcohol to get through this flight. It continues and the guy is glaring at us, like why the hell did you have to change seats, I mouth I'm sorry to him about a hundred times. After about another 20 mins I can't take it ( I kept looking back and nothing, no I'm sorry, no please stop it kiddos, nothing) so I go and stand with the flight attendants in the back who agreed that we had the worst seats on the entire plane and proceeded to buy me some wine. So I stood back there with them for probably 30 mins.... until it was time to start our landing process, I groan and beg and beg and tell them I'll help them work...but they make me go back to my seat...ughhh....

The kids keep kicking and screaming and they are just encouraged by both women to do so. The guy we're sitting with is so upset he's been drinking the entire flight, and then starts elbowing the seat every time they kick his...which was about every 5 seconds. Finally we land, we're waiting to get off the plane and the people in the isle over are like ohhhh you're kids were so good on the plane, what good little travelers...I shot all of them the nastiest look I could and a couple of people started laughing when the women said that because we all KNEW it was the worst flight ever..... Wheewwww we are off of that plane.

Then we have a 4 and a half hour layover in Phoenix, we get a cab and go out and see some sights, then go back to check in only to find out of flight has been delayed and hour and a half. So now we don't depart until 1:30 am...yes am.... Did you all know I get incredibly sick with no sleep or no eating at normal times....so imagine my excitement...We finally get on the plane and make it to Atlanta, which is my LEAST favorite airport of any, you'll hear much more about that in about 10 blogs when I finish up the entire week. Then its off to Antigua, before we board we notice we're not sitting together. We hear someone else ask the ticketing agent about it for them, and she says she can't fix it until about 20 mins prior to the flight. About ten mins later I ask Arthur to go stand up there to get our seats together, so he waits for the agent to get back and she gives us seats together. The next people go up ( totally different people that earlier) and she says sorry, no more seats together...hehehehe, we got the first and only ones. We board and find that all the people behind us are on their way to Sandals as well, we chit chat for a while, and meet Chad and Jamie, and Ken and Susan. (I'll be referring to them in upcoming posts, so don't forget...) we finally land, and its hotter than hell out there. Ahhhh the Caribbean. We stand in line for an hour to get through customs and finally get on the shuttle to the resort...Sandals here we come!!!!

Vacation Draws Near....

So its almost time for our BIG vaca. The one we save all year for... OUR SANDALS vacation. Its my very favorite place ever. This year we are going to Antigua. Never been there, but am SOOOO soooo excited to go. I can't believe we are leaving in a week from tomorrow. I'm not at all prepared, and it really doesn't seem like its that time already. I'm very confused.

So anways, about wonderful Sandals. This year we're staying in a Garden Rondoval with private pool. Its a cute little round house. All to ourselves. And the best part is, they are really close to the beach. This will be the first time we've been close to the beach, as usually the nice suites are furthest away, that doesn't seem to make sense does it???? So while we are there, it will also be "reunion week". Which is something Sandals does every year for repeat guests. We've never been and didn't even know it was happening until about a month ago, so hopefully it will be good.

I have soooo much to do, I probably shouldn't be online...but alas, I LOVE the Internet, so here I am. If any of you want the best vacation ever, head to Sandals, its so relaxing and soooo beautiful, oh and did I mention....NO KIDS ALLOWED!!! YAHOOO!!!! No bratty rugrats ruining my vacations there, thank you very much....

Okay well this is just rambling, so I'm going to go do nothing on facebook, or maybe watch some tv. Or maybe I'll go to target and get some SPF 90000000....Cause thats about what you need for the sun there!! I'll post pics and everything when we get back!!!