Okay, for whatever reason, I’m having trouble with the media, so you may not be able to see that video, but trust me, it is magical haha.
So, we hop in the cab, and the driver tells us a bit about life in Barbados, and points out some things like a famous statue we pass and everything, until –
Something like 24 hours from when we arrived at LAX we arrived at the Barbados hotel (on March 14)! The Club Barbados. Everyone was SO nice.
(And they handed us welcome drinks. This is the beginning of a long line of everyone offering us drinks all the time.)
We had the BEST room. It was incredible. We could open the door and be ON the beach. And we were just steps away from the bar and dining room. Wanna be drunk at 9am? or midnight? Or really whenever you feel like it? Great news. Take 10 steps and all the free alcohol you could ever want is at your fingertips.
The hotel also gave us a calendar of all the little things we could do everyday! It was pretty cool.
Wheel of Fortune gives you $500 as spending money for your trip, and you absolutely could’ve gone to Barbados, stayed busy completely never leaving the resort, and gotten by on that $500, since the resort was all-inclusive, so it just would’ve had to cover tips [and like airport transport] for the week.
But alas, we didn’t do any of the hotel stuff, because there just wasn’t time! (I mean, maybe there was time that very first day, because you’re about to hear how lazy were were on night one haha, but overall, we had a lot to do!)
Basically, we just unpacked, showered, changed clothes, ate dinner, and then fell asleep at like 7:30 pm, or something insane (after all the travel and time zone hopping – especially, obviously for him, and staying up all night [even though we did sleep some on the plane], etc.).
We did spend a small bit of time at the pool before dinner, and it was really lovely and sweet. And we were playing this question game on my phone. And when one of the questions was what are 3 things you had in common, one of his that came quickly to mind was he thought we were both very chill about everything on vacation and we wouldn’t run into any issues (and boy was he correct). I don’t think of myself as a chill person, but perhaps I’m chill in times, or perhaps I’m chill with him. But it was a chill, amazing week.
The dinner on the first night was amazing! It was the HUGE buffet with everything you could ever imagine. And there were outside stations of people cooking various meals and deserts. It was so decadent.
I truly loved everything about everything – Barbados, the hotel, the room, the food, Alex, the workers the hotel. It was magical. And it just keeps getting more magical after that. So, stick around for part 4!