Sunday, March 16, 2025: We woke up at 6:00 a.m. and went outside to see the sunrise. Even though we're going home today, I had no trouble going back to bed for a bit longer. As we have each morning here, we spent hours staring out at the views while enjoying our coffee and breakfast. 

Saturday, March 15, 2025: I was drifting in and out of sleep last night, listening to the pouring rain outside for hours. They don't use gutters on the structures here which makes for a different sound. The rain mixed in with the waves made for a very soothing chorus and easy to fall back to sleep.

Friday, March 14, 2025: This is our laziest, aka relaxing, day this week. It felt wonderful to sit, read, snooze, and just feel completely immersed in the elements. It's been mostly cloudy with a few periods of very light rain which made the air smell even more intoxicating. This morning, I spotted a bright orange ball floating on the waves. I kept expecting it to get pushed up onto the beach but it never did. Then, I noticed it kept moving along in front of the property and I saw something black come to the surface. It was a fisherman diving for lobster! Amazing! 

Thursday, March 13, 2025: Today we had Rodney drive us into town; Bridgetown. It was about 15 minutes further than the restaurant he drove us to last night and we went early enough that there wasn't a lot of traffic. He dropped us off in a place call Pelican Mall. Our plan was to see some shops and restaurants and walk our way south of town where we can easily get a taxi to take us back to the villa. We followed the plan but we made it through the entire shopping area much more quickly than we anticipated. Many of the shops weren't open yet and we were both eager to get to a beach. I was so excited to see a marina as Rodney was driving along, explaining where everything was. He thought we were more interested in the shops so that was his focus. Little did he know, we just wanted to see boats and the beach. 

Wednesday, March 12, 2025: It's funny to me how easily I wake up and go back to sleep through the night here. I typically don't hear rain or even thunderstorms during the night but here, I woke up at 1:11 a.m. when it started raining. Larry had already closed the shutters in the living area so it was easy to close the ones in the bedroom and climb back into bed.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025: It's been an exciting morning! We started waking up at 6:30 a.m. I opened the doors to get a picture of the sunrise but it was cloudy. I got up again at 7:00 and then for good at 8:00. Larry opened all the doors while I made coffee in the coffee maker. We moved up from instant coffee with evaporated milk today! We have Hazelnut coffee and real cream! As I was standing at the sink, my little bird friend flew in to greet me. Clearly other guests must leave food out because he knows right where he's going. He flew back to the table, the floor, the terrace, back inside to the dining table where he rested a bit and we just stared at one another. I moved aside and he flew back into the kitchen, took a look around, and then flew out the door.

Monday, March 10, 2025: Whew, I took my first picture of the day at 8:07 a.m. We didn't sleep the morning away. Today is Larry's birthday and he's been reading through birthday texts and emails all morning. One of his friends texted him before I was even awake enough to remember it's his birthday! :-)  

Sunday, March 9, 2025: I'm not sure why, but I'm embarassed to admit that I didn't drag myself out of bed until 8:43 a.m. to catch my first picture of the day. We're literally staying in a "sunrise villa" with the most spectacular sunrise view and we kinda missed it. :-) We woke up at 5:30 a.m. to a rain shower. We quickly jumped out of bed to go close all of the shutters, no small task, but we made it before too much rain came in. We fell back asleep easily.

Saturday, March 8, 2025: Our alarm went off at 2:30 a.m. (yes, that hurts ;-) ) and we were out the door at 3:45. I had been watching the weather forecast this week. If it was going to be icy, we would've stayed in a hotel near the airport. Thankfully the roads were perfect! The cars in the parking lot were covered in a layer of snow and ice and the roads were a little wet there but driving was perfectly dry!

O. M. G. This is the second recipe from Barefoot Contessa that I've tried recently. It's called Weeknight Bolognese. I discovered it last week, after coming home from work. I printed it out, went shopping, cooked it and we were eating this incredibly decadent dinner by 7:30! It was quick and easy and there was even enough leftover to freeze! It's absolutely delicious! Here's the link to Barefoot Contessa's recipe and if you're interested in the first recipe I tried, I wrote about it in this blog post.