I’m loving the 2 hour time change. I stayed up as late as I wanted and was still asleep long before midnight. I slept til I was ready to get up, and it wasn’t even 7 yet. Of course, if I could have traded in the pile of extra pillows for my honey, I wouldn’t have been ready to get up so soon. A big empty bed just doesn’t hold the same charm…

And I remembered one more thing that I forgot to bring: one of his unlaundered undershirts to sleep in. I miss my guy.

Did I mention that the shower doubles as a sauna? It’s definitely not my thing, but was interesting nonetheless. It made a lot of scary, clunky, deep-in-the-pipes noises, as though there was a actually a guy down there in the inner workings turning valves with a big monkey wrench. I used the steam to warm the marble slabs around me then turned took pity on the guy with the wrench and turned on the shower instead. I discovered that I like my water between 80 and 90 degrees. There was a decadent amount of water flowing from the showerheads, and I just couldn’t bring myself to turn on both at full force at the same time. I probably would have drowned, anyway, and that’s probably not the sort of publicity they want around here.

I love the room, and the view and the quiet sounds of the ocean. The water is deep, so there’s no roar of breaking waves. It’s peaceful, but I miss my family. The gulls are noisy, but there are few people sounds, and all of those are adult voices. There are no happy voices bustling around the kitchen, no hubby teasing the cranky ones, no baby feet smacking the floor in crazy rhythms around and around the house, no sweet daughters offering me sips of their cocoa mocha and asking for the privilege of making breakfast.

“Me time” is over rated.  Finding my own shoes in the morning is too easy.

I did make a new friend already today. He came to one of the balconies begging for food and hung about making small talk while I put on my makeup. He wasn’t too impressed with the almond I finally gave him; he took it and left. I think he was rather hoping for my leftover scallops in the fridge, but I don’t give those to just any seagull.

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