Today can be summed up in three words; food, swim, rest.
We were awoken fairly early with someone ringing my mobile phone. OK, it might have been 10am in Sydney but it was only 7am here so we didn’t answer it. Couldn’t have been important, they didn’t leave a message.
We made it to breakfast by 9am. Some of the things were the same as yesterday but some were different, like pikelets instead of waffles and chocolate milk instead of strawberry. 6 pikelets with raspberry jam was a perfect breakfast for me.
After breakfast we dressed for the pool but before easing ourselves into the water, we took a small stroll along the beach, and I mean small. The sand was so soft, even at the shoreline. Plus (and I want to hear the violins here) the really coarse sand and pebblecrete around the pool here are rubbing my feet raw. At least we can say we have put a foot in the Indian Ocean. There are signs telling tourists to beware of the jellyfish in the ocean so we didn't need to venture in any further than that.
The pool was lovely and refreshing and, at that time, still quiet, although the place is fairly quiet anyway. Alan took full advantage of the kid free waterslides although sliding isn’t something he was doing a lot of. Water slides simply don't like me. More often than not I stop halfway down at which point it can be hard to get going again.
We stayed until the sun peaked over the building at about 11am and then came back to the room for a rest.
At 1.15pm we went to the three course set lunch, plus drink at The Hard Rock Cafe for A$10; mushroom soup, marmalade chicken (for Sarah) and fish with a thai lemongrass dressing (for Alan) followed by really nice chocolate icecream. Can’t complain about that. That was some of the best chocolate ice cream I've ever had. Yum!It was still too early to head back to the pool so it was a small nap time for Alan. At 4.30pm, when there was enough sun behind trees we went back to the pool for 1.5 hours. The water is absolutely beautiful. I don’t think I’d mentioned before but the pool is Northern Malaysia’s largest freeform swimming pool at 26,000 sq feet. We know every inch of it now.
Tonight we went back down the road to the place we wanted to eat at last night. We weren’t in the place long and the heavens opened up. When it rains here, it really rains. Thankfully, after our dinner of a prawn cocktail and fried wontons, followed by chicken quesadilla and salt and pepper squid, the rain had sufficiently stopped for us to get home without getting too wet. We already have a pile of clothes I washed last night that hasn’t dried. We didn’t need to add to it.
We have our morning planned tomorrow: up early for breakfast, a quick swim in the pool, be packed and waiting for our ride, James from yesterday’s tour, to take us to airport at 10.30am. A quick 30 minute flight then have us in our lovely traditional Malay resort by 2pm. We will miss the pool here though. But the next place has cats living there to make up for not having as nice a pool as here.
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