Days 3, 4, 5 and 6 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)

Actually, it's all a bit of a blur. The days here are sunny and cloudy and windy.

The food is very good. The drinks are included/free. Seeing K&K several times a day is great.  On Monday evening Neil and I went to the ROCK show, which was rather lame, although there were a few good singers.

On Tuesday, Kevin did our pool-check for diving, and we did a written test, too, kind of testing the refresher test. We are good to go.

The waves were still pounding on the beach day and night. By Wednesday, so many stones had built up they were using machinery to move them. They scooped them from the beach front and dumped them at the foot of the erosion points on the dunes

I walked down the beach to K&K's house, and the tide went out as I walked there and back, which was pleasant.

I also amused myself by adding to my tropical Christmas decoration collection:

The little tree at the dive shop.

On Wednesday evening, Kevin and I went to the Mexican Folklore show, which was lively and colourful. For each show we only stayed about an hour.

By Thursday morning, lots of stones had returned and a man with a rake and few with small shovels were trying to clear the beach so the lounge chairs could be put out. The backhoe came back and moved some....Black or red flags have flown over the beach most days, and the beach was closed off with yellow tape. Very discouraging.

On Thursday it was our intention to have a family dive day (or half day) so we got up relatively early and saw this sunrise. But it was still wavy, windy and cloudy, and I was feeling a little ill, so we postponed. But on the way to breakfast I captured this lovely sunrise. Kevin and Kat had lots of work to do that day, with new guests in the hotel to talk to about diving and excursions, so it worked out well.

In the evening, after a sunset so cloudy it really didn't happen, we went to the fancy restaurant, the Pacific Express, which is built in the style of a grand old European train.  Here are pictures from the Iberostar Star magazine:

The food was excellent, but we didn't make a long night of it, because of our planned dive day in the morning.