Day 5

07.24.2003 Thursday

I am eager to hit the beach early today because it's supposed to rain later today and tomorrow. We leave Saturday. We wake up relatively early and get ready for the beach(i.e. lotion). We actually find a nice spot, and there is some sun today, but there are dark clouds looming. We sit around for a bit, but don't actually get in the water because the surf is rough from the storm. We hear rolls of thunder, but decide not to pack it in just yet, because it's off in the distance. We leave a while later, clean off, and I go over to Subway for some lunch and bring it back to the room. It rains.

We let the rain wear out for a while and decide to finally try some mini golf. We check out Captain Hook's. It is themed from the Peter Pan movie. There aren't too many people playing, which is good, because it looks like it's going to rain again. We had a pretty good time playing, and decide to try the Outback Steakhouse again for dinner. We pull in and see a line, but we said we would wait tonight. I go around back, but there is nowhere to park, so we leave and travel a bit further down the road to a place called the Atlantic Grille.

I run in through the rain to see if there's a dress code. They say no, so we're in. The place is not crowded, and it looks very nice. We ended up having a really nice dinner, so we didn't wait in the rain for the Outback anyway. We couldn't play any more mini golf since it continued raining, so we went back to the hotel to try and find its advertised "lazy river."

We get changed and find it rather easily, and it contains only a boy floating around with his mother sitting in a chair alongside. We try the pool outside instead, but it's too cold. We go back to the river. Great, we each grab a tube, and sit our lazy asses in and proceed around the river without having to strain ourselves. Minutes later, another girl and guy enter. Fine. They were nice and minded their own business. About 20 minutes later, a father and his 2 young boys run in all loud and jump into the river, without a tube. The boys decide to swim between us as we float, and the stupid father insists on floating up our asses. How very rude and inconsiderate we felt. We stayed only a few more minutes and then left in a bad mood.

We went back up to our room and changed again and settled in for the night. Tomorrow is our last day. We plan on trying the water park, because it's supposed to rain later in the day, but not early on. We'll see what happens.