Perfect Pool Day

This past week, the girls and I were able to tag along with Jeff on his annual work conference, in Daytona Beach. Day 1 Monday is here, and this post is for Day 2 Tuesday!

TUESDAY

The conference didn’t actually begin until 1pm on this day, so Jeff left me snoozing in the hotel room, and he and the girls snuck out, with them still in their jammies, to walk across the street to Dunkin for breakfast. He even thought ahead to open the Dunkin app on my phone, look at my most recent coffee order, and got that for me! I thought that was so sweet and smart of him! So I woke up to them sneaking back in later, and they brought me breakfast in bed!

He had to go down to the conference room to get everything set up shortly after they got back, and then the girls and I had an hour or so to just hang out in the room. By 10am though, we were suited up and in the beautiful pool! We packed snacks, waters, sunscreen, towels and both my paperback and my Kindle, and spent about three hours swimming, on the most perfect pool day.

We also went down to the beach for a little while this day, but I didn’t take my phone down there with me, so no pictures of that. We finally went back up to the room for a late lunch around 1:30pm, and we were absolutely starving by that point. We had brought food with us from home in a cooler full of ice, so we were able to eat lunch in our room every day for free.

There was a little market place and coffee shop on the first floor of our hotel, so before we went back out to the pool after lunch, we stopped there for me to grab another iced coffee, since the girls wouldn’t lay down for a nap 😉 For the beginning half of the week, the pool, and even the entire hotel, felt pretty empty considering its’ size, so we had a nice peaceful time, with hardly anyone else around. I was able to read in the pool while the girls played, and by the time we were getting too water-logged around 4pm, we were pretty much the only ones left!

Jeff was done at 5pm, and the girls and I got showered and cleaned up for dinner. We had been worried all day it might rain, but it held off all day, and we didn’t even get any clouds, until right as it was time leave the hotel. And then it was a dadgum monsoon on the way to the dinner spot I picked out. We could barely see out the front window of the van, and we were driving like 20mph in a 45, just trying to be safe.

But we found this perfect little hole-in-the-wall Mexican spot for Taco Tuesday. I ordered the cheesy birria tacos, at the recommendation of one of the employees, and it was literally the best birria I’ve ever had! He actually convinced Emerson to order a birria taco herself, and she loved it too. (She just had hers sans onions and cilantro.)

We stopped into Aldi after dinner to grab a few more groceries for the week, specifically some breakfast items, energy drinks, and bottled coffee’s, so we could be prepared for hotel breakfast for the rest of the week. (Unfortunately, this hotel didn’t have a free continental breakfast. They had a few on-site restaurants that were very expensive {like, $26 for a breakfast buffet!}, and we just were not gonna do that…)

And then we visited a few Little Free Library’s in the area, before heading back to the hotel.

It was past their usual bedtime once we made it back to the hotel, so we all got ready for bed, and they were asleep almost immediately. I stayed up reading for a while, but then I think I was in bed earlier than usual, around 10:30 or so, and we had a great nights’ sleep!