By the time we got to Marbella (where our hotel was) it was 1:30 am, but Jesse was just commenting on how hungry he was and that he would love to find some food before we went to our room, when we passed a McDonald's that was open...seriously.
So we got to our hotel and the front desk informs us that they don't have any more mountain view rooms available (which we weren't even paying full price for, we got a deal online) so they were going to have to move us to one of the bigger, ocean view rooms with a balcony. But they didn't have any of those available for the night, either, so for the inconvenience of having to change rooms the next day, they were going to put us in their nicest suit on the roof. You have no idea how hard it was to remain cool the whole way up the elevator with the bellboy.
We had planned on going right to bed as we were wiped out, but once we saw the suite, we ended up staying up until 3:30 am. You'll see why.
Our first morning I woke up early, as usual, and was too excited to sleep, so I got up with the sun to, you know, relax (Jesse had to explain to me the irony of getting up early to relax after I woke him early two days in a row. I was instructed to go to breakfast and then on to the pool by myself and let him relax in our bed ;) ). So the first thing I did that first morning was take pictures of everything, including my sleepy husband.
The livingroom from the door:
Into our bedroom, here are the flat screen tv, and our own espresso machine:
The bedroom (I wish I had gotten this before we slept in it, but you know how it goes):
The bathroom, complete with weights:
The shower:
The closet:
Walking from the bedroom back toward the living room and deck:
Living room looking toward the door:
And the best part was by far the deck. Here is our bar and personal ice machine:
The fountain/bridge area:
The bed (I only left this bed to sleep inside and go down to breakfast):
Oh yeah, and to go in our own spa:
And of course, the putting green:
It was blissful.
Here's the view toward the mountain:
To the side:
And finally, toward the water, with our hotel's grounds below us:
And just in case you like to watch the ocean while getting some exercise (thanks, Love, for the demonstration):
Like I said, we hit breakfast (which was amazing every day, by the way) and then I immediately took up residence on the outside bed, until we had to change rooms just after noon. Don't worry, I changed after we took some pics so that I could start working on my tan right away.
When Jesse and the staff finally blasted me out of the suite, and we got ourselves settled into our commoner room (which was still pretty stinkin' amazing), we grabbed some sandwiches at the poolside restaurant, and then went for a stroll down the path that runs along the beach, which our hotel sat right on, of course.
They had this little work out circuit thing, which we had to read the directions for, as most of them were really random exercises.
We topped the day off by driving a few minutes down the coast to Puerto Banus, which is where the rich and famous dock their private yacht and drive their fancy cars. We wandered for a while, but unfortunately didn't take any pics, as neither of us wanted to carry around the camera case, but lets just say that the "boats" were pretty unbelievable, and the cars were almost all worth a lot more than our house. We threw around the idea of getting some dinner, but after we paid 4 euro for one scoop of gelato (about five bucks), we decided we could wait until we got back to our only moderately expensive area.
Somehow we ended up with pizza from an Italian restaurant (apparently we don't get enough of that here in Italy...), but it was cheap and easy to take back to the room with us, which is what we wanted. So we ate pizza and candy (we had also hit up a grocery store for snacks) in bed, and watched tv until we passed out.
A perfect first day.
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