PHOTO: BACK FROM VACATION

 
back from "vacation" not sure i like vacationing local.  i got to spend an extra day because i fed the animals in between.  i had to return to make sure payroll went out, but that was my fault, i think someone else can fax.  grrrrr.  the younger ones don't know how, they e-mail, the older ones, SHOULD know how, but they work earlier hours and payroll is sent out in the evening and collected BEFORE office hours. 
 
the timeshare was a hi-rise on the ocean about an hour from the house down south and two hours from the house up north.  i miss hi rise living, nice to be there again.  nice and clean and immaculate and as john the photographer used to say, "comfortably numb" --  for me, it was nice just being in a hi rise.  but their pool was cold, so my vacation is still on, i'll have to put in swim time in our heated pool locally, thank you.  the jacuzzi was hot and very large and salt water which is different.  they also have a lock out at night at the pool area, kind of weird but a lot of the resorts have that.  this one closed at 11, which is typical.  some have 24/7 and advertise it that way.  cool.  their bedding was as good as a westin hotel, but without the freezing a/c of a westin.  westin's don't allow you to open windows nor control the a/c, so we don't use them (westin's also charge for EVERY extra thing and timeshare never does).  beautiful and soft bedding though.  very well done.   was advised not to buy the meal plan and didn't.  though i can see getting it if you have kids that are around age 12 who want to be independent (though is that safe?  everything seems unsafe everywhere).   the people across from us, stayed at the resort the entire time, attending activities and going to the ocean.  different.  the point of a vacation is to get away by doing and seeing things you don't normally get to do.  sometimes if you work 24/7 the best vacation would be sleeping for a week, but not at your own house.  lol.  
the meal card has money on it and they swipe it for each use.  everything is done with plastic cards at this place.  how does that go?  are they microchipped like our cars are nowadays!?   
 
allll of our vacations are going to be local this year, unless i lose weight.  if i lose weight, i want to go to the timeshare that teaches surfing because i want to do the kite surfing thing.  won't hold my breath. 
 
had two health scares when away.  i learned i have to take my blood pressure pill, with food, WAIT, until the pill does its thing and levels it all out and THEN use the 104 degree jacuzzi or bath or whatever i am aiming for.  even their sauna is locked which is scary.  most saunas are open.  its dangerous to be locked.
 
went to hope store after we checked out and shopped for animal supplies at the mini mall near there.  a woman at hope store (which was mobbed - if you need to open a business, open a food cooperative, bump and dent, its near the price of a dollar store, but some things are like 70 percent off) was saying her daughter has chicken pox, so she left her home.  i'm thinking GREAT, shouldn't the woman also be in quarantine so the rest of us aren't exposed?  she says her daughter got it from the library.  yuck!    
       
they had a movie on the ocean.  very cool.  but it was an action film.  still a wonderful idea as at the ocean resort areas there are no bugs.  you could be on a lounge or in the jacuzzi or floating in the pool and watch the movie, so one up from jacuzzi and a movie.  but still one down from a live band, like the hi rise "inn" used to have ten years ago - its still there, but it was bought-out and its not the same.  totally redone and pretty, the pool at the "inn" was HUGE and really was heated and nice and warm and a pleasure.