It's me Kiara. Hi !
We were really too busy to write any more yesterday. We were also sad to leave FDR Runaway Bay. We loved the resort. In so few days we had made many friends and our grownups said that they had had such a great relaxing time.
Mommy took oodles of photos at FDR and she is going to edit them when we get home to Canada and we will put them on and tell you about them.
Yesterday afternoon we drove from Runaway Bay back west to Pebbles. We saw all the scenery that we had missed the day we arrived in Jamaica, because it was dark then. It gets dark here by about 6:30.
When we arrived at Pebbles we went to our rooms on the second floor in Block 11 The rooms are very nice, but very different from Runaway Bay. They are wooden inside and out. They have nice balconies and you can see the ocean from every room. Gabriella said that if we were any closer to the ocean, we'd be in it. We are in three separate suites. They are all alike.
When we arrived at Pebbles we went to our rooms on the second floor in Block 11 The rooms are very nice, but very different from Runaway Bay. They are wooden inside and out. They have nice balconies and you can see the ocean from every room. Gabriella said that if we were any closer to the ocean, we'd be in it. We are in three separate suites. They are all alike.
These pictures are of one suite.
We met our Nanny, Sharlene, and she took us on a tour of the whole property.
The beach here is really nice. It has 3 connecting coves. Those long narrow piles of rocks you can see in the pictures are there to trap the sand that falls when the waves break against them. There is a trampoline raft out in the water and the older kids can swim out alone.The sand is really soft and powdery and even us little kids can walk a long way out in the water very safely.
There are lounge chairs in all of the beach areas and there are hammocks under the trees.They play a lot of games on the beach like volleyball and soccer. There is still lots of room for anyone who just wants to lounge around.
The pool is great. The pool has a big slide and a large kiddie section at the end opposite the slide. They have a lot of pool toys, no need to bring your own.During the tour we met some of the other
Nannies and kids. We helped feed goats and some rabbits who live here. We also counted 8 turtles in a special pond. There is another pond where kids can go fishing.
There are three restaurants and a beach grill on the property. Two restaurants are for adults only. Our adults decided to try the Italian restaurant for dinner Friday night. They said the food was excellent.
Sharlene, our special Nanny, stayed some extra hours and took us to the kiddies club and then to have dinner at the kid's buffet. There is a good choice of kids favourite food, but we were too excited to eat much.
Friday night some of the teenage guests camped out on the beach right under our balconies.
Their activity co-ordinators camped with them. We could hear them giggling if we listened very closely, but Nana said that they were really very well behaved.
Anyway...today is Saturday, Feb 17.
AND:
It's raining, it's pouring.
My grandparents are snoring!
I opened their door and I jumped in their bed ,
At 7 o'clock in the morning.
I could do that because here at Pebbles all the middle suites connect through the bedroom. Each suite has two sections, Mommy took pictures to show that. Each suite can accomodate up to 5 people. It means that even if there are 10 in your family you can have connecting suites here.
When we woke up this morning everyone was "stranded" in their rooms for a bit because of the rain that just poured down. Staff members were all over the place with great big umberellas which they used to escort guests to breakfast. We put our bathing suits on under big beach towels and scuttled off in the rain to have breakfast. Everyone was laughing at the rain.
Nana was so pleased that it rained that she sat on the balcony for over an hour just to watch and to listen to the rain on the wooden roof.
Soon the sun came out and Saturday was a very busy day for all of us. Gabriella and I did so many fun things with our Nanny and the other kids - in the kids club, on the beach and at the pool.
We won prizes for games we played.
Mommy and Abuelo and Sonja went out in the glass bottom boat to see what the reef was like at this part of Jamaica. We chose to stay with Nanny Sharlene and play in the pool with her and with our new friends... There are kids of all ages here and they are divided into different groups for activities.
Nana and Tia Ruthie just wanted to sit on the beach and go to swim. Everyone had a great time.
Saturday night we all had dinner together, it was Jamaican barbecue night. There was a floor show. I sang again and Gabriella gave a great hula-hoop performance once again. Everyone clapped and clapped. Anyone who wanted to ...kids and adults...danced on stage and then all around the room in long lines, waving red serviettes over their heads. Crazy fun they called it.Sonja and one of the teenagers helped the fire dancer have his dinner too.
I wonder what kind of tooth paste he uses.
