So our trip started with a bit of excitement, and not the good kind. We arrived at Austin airport, shuffled through a SLOW security line and sat down to eat a breakfast taco before boarding our flight. As we were taking our first bite, the fire alarm sounded. Flashing lights, loud sirens, metals doors on all the stores coming down and a mass exodus of confused and upset travelers. Wes and I stood there looking at each other, this cannot be happening! We decided to finish our breakfast before heading outside to enjoy the blazing sunshine. Apparently, this has happened 4 times over the past month at this airport. I guess it's a glitch in the system. Kind of a big glitch, ya think?? 30 minutes later, they opened the front doors and everyone STORMED the security line. Luckily, we were pretty close to the front of the crowd. And security moved much faster this time around. Here is a really dark picture of the line behind us at security.
Our flight was only 20 minutes late taking off, and soon we were in paradise!! Our resort (Capella Pedregal) was only accessible through a long tunnel carved through the center of a mountain. A very dramatic entrance!! Here is a shot from inside the hotel looking back towards the tunnel.
Our room was amazing. Each room had a small, private pool right off the balcony.
After checking out our room, we headed to the pool and made some new friends. We hung by the pool from about 3:30 - 7:30 before heading up to our room. I was exhausted (Stella was randomly awake the night before for 2 hours) so I ordered room service and Wes walked into town. I had the most glorious night of sleep I've had in a long time. Slept until 8:30 and it FELT SO GOOD!!!!! After breakfast, we spent an hour by the pool before heading to our massage appointments. I didn't think this vacation could get any better until I walked into this spa. I have never, ever had anything close to this spa experience. After being welcomed with a cold blueberry tea, we were taken to a changing room. After getting into our robes, we moved to a special room for foot treatments. They scrubbed our feet with basil and mint and a salt scrub. It felt SO good!!!! After a few minutes of that, we headed to our private rooms for an hour massage. Both of us had an incredible masseuse but the experience didn't end there!!! After your massage, you headed to the locker room where a "grotto rotation" awaited you. First, you sat in a dry sauna for ten minutes while drinking chlorophyll water. Then you entered a steam sauna where you rubbed giant pieces of aloe all over your skin. Glorious!! Wes coined the next room "the snowcone room." Crushed ice was falling from the ceiling into a bowl in the center of the room. A bowl of grapefruits was in the middle of the ice. My masseuse had told me earlier to rub the grapefruits over my skin, just as I did with the aloe. Wes and I had a good laugh later when he told me he ate the grapefruit and was curious why some pieces in the bowl were squished. After chilling out in the cold room, you headed to a jacuzzi to finish the experience. It was the most relaxed I have ever been in my entire life. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Then we headed back to the pool and hung out there until 7:00. We had 8 pm reservations at El Farallon, the hotel restaurant. Seafood soup, ceviche, calamari, fresh salad, scallops, yellowtail, parrotfish, yellowfin tuna and clams. And the meal wasn't the best part....the view was breathtaking. We were on a cliff with waves breaking on the rocks beneath us. Close enough to have a light mist from the waves....so beautiful.
This last picture was taken by our new friends, Sean and Sarah from San Antonio. So glad they snapped this picture since we are so bad about asking people to take our picture.
That's all for now. I'll post tomorrow with part 2 of our vacation.
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