Antigua - Arriving at Sandals

Wow, one year later and we're on the road again. I think we need to travel more often! We left Toronto at 0 degrees and having the plane defrosted so our arrival in Antigua after 5 hours was quite pleasant. As we descended to the island, we started to see the aqua blue sea and finally, the island. As we exited the airport, at 28 degrees, we had skipped a season at home and were in summer. 

    De-icing the plane. A first for us. 

    First views of the island. The sea was amazing. 

After a 15 minute ride in a van with broken a/c, we were at Sandals and everything was good. They dropped us at our concierge building and we were handed cool towels and champagne. Not a bad start. We had to wait a bit for our room to be ready so we explored the resort and had two mini lunches at two of the restaurants. One was right on the beach and had a sand floor. 

We checked into our room and it was great. We're on a second floor with a balcony the faces the resort. It's surrounded by palm trees and overlooks a pool. We continued to walk around as the place is quite large. 

    The sky was a bit threatening but there was no rain. Beautiful in any case.

As we had been up since 3 a.m., we were both quite wiped out. So, we watched the sunset on the beach, had dinner at an English style pub and retired to our room. So much for checking out the night life! I figured I'd write this post and then go to bed. Nope. After nodding off a few times and writing nothing, I decided to give in and went to bed at 9:30! Quite shocking for me. We were serenaded by tree frogs all night. I had no idea that they could be so loud!

    Marilyn watching the sunset. 

    A couple of local kids on the beach. 

    Looking towards the beach. That's one of the local cats.