!Yo Diggity!

Cori and I woke up this morning and Cori said she wanted 40 minutes of rigorous exercise before she got off to her conference. Little did we know when she said ‘rigorous’ that how true it would be….

We walked straight down the paved road from our hotel towards the water. What we found there was sooooo beautiful. As we approached between the two high rock walls we could see the gorgeous blue water. Wow.

As we rounded the corner, we could see something below… whoa - a pool. A really complacent looking pool on the edge of the water.

I was delighted to find that this pool was indeed one of our hotel’s pool and it was then that I knew where I would be spending my day.

Well, the road back to the hotel was our rigorous exercise. But it was no sweat really, we both have been trained by the 100 stairs at my flat in Budapest.

We had breakfast and Cori was off to her conference. I went back to the room as it was a little hazy out still and was doing my devotional and go oh so sleepy. I crashed for almost 3 hours!!! Whoops. I woke up and wandered down to the little strip mall to buy a razor (which I forgot) and some bottled water. Then I gathered my things and headed down to the pool. This pool really was incredible. The weather was PERFECT. Not a cloud in the sky, cool breeze and 75 degrees. I was thinking, “This is vacation.” Cori came down and meet me for lunch at the pool where I had swordfish and a fresh, green lettuce salad (this is a rare find in Budapest so I was quite overjoyed). The rest of my afternoon I spent slathering on the sunscreen, reading one of my Karen Kingsbury books (totally frivolous reading) and napping on and off. The view from the pool was really incredible. It is on the edge of rocky water of which is different shades of brilliant blue because of the different depths of the water and the rock below. There were a few sailboats or yachts that would sail lazily by now and again with a backdrop of green hills in the background from a distant side of the island.

I tried to get some decent pictures but I never think the pictures turn out as beautiful as the scene really is. Especially if there is a silvery shine on the water I want to capture… never seems to come out quite so brilliant. I’ll try to keep the pictures fresh in my mind as long as possible….