Laundry and the Beach

 We’ve been at this about 10 days, so we need to do laundry.  The hotel has a laundry room with about 6 washers and 5 dryers.  Of course three washers and a dryer are broken.  But we got down there before breakfast and had our pick of the equipment.  Washing and drying cost $1.75 each — the hotel desk will change paper dollars into quarters.  By throwing Linda’s and mine together, we got everything in one load.

We used our phones to set a timer, so we threw the clothes in to be washed, then went out to get coffee for Linda and a newspaper for me for breakfast.  Then we could move the clothes from the washer to the dryer, go back up and have breakfast and go back down when they were done.  Worked great. Although Linda thinks somehow she lost one white sock.

We went shopping.  Linda was interested in an Hawaiian shirt.  I got another tee shirt.  



Linda wondered off to look at other shops, while I went back to the room to read.

Mid-afternoon, we put on our swim clothes and went over to the beach.  Linda discovered a Boogie Board in the storage closet and wanted to try it.  We couldn’t figure out how the board helped at all.  The water moved so much it was hard to use.  And maybe we are the wrong age group.

So we sat on the beach and watched the sun go down.  And watched the people on the beach.

Then we went back to the room, ate left-over pizza (from last night) and puttered around until bedtime.  It’s supposed to start raining, hard, tonight, starting around 2AM.


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