You Know I'm all about that Bass in your Walk

The hotel here also functions as a turtle hospital and sanctuary, so part of the island is dedicated to the rescue, rehab, and release of sea turtles. Today we joined in the morning feeding and learned a bit more about green sea turtles. I learned 2 new facts. 

• First, Green Sea Turtles, like the ones at the hotel, are brown until they fully mature. When asked why this might be, my obvious response (that the turtles fall into ooze during adolescent and start practicing martial arts) was wrong. Turns out the turtles are carnivores while they young where mature animals are herbivores, and their body color changes to reflect the now green diet they consume.
• Second, turtle mating happens for about 20 consecutive days in a year. A female lays

  

  Is anyone having fun?

  multiple groups of eggs, typically totaling 1000 at a time. However to mate, the male turtle approaches the female, uses his tail to maneuver the shell, latches on, then leaves... Followed very quickly by another male turtle. The guide told us that it is not uncommon for female turtles to drown during this period because they don't come up for air. She then joked that we just learned 2 things - It's not great to be a female sea turtle, and it's even worse to be a male sea turtle after a few beverages (see picture)

We then went on to feed the turtles in the hospital and watch the staff clean the baby turtles they were caring for, which were pretty adorable.

I need to figure out how to load vids from my phone,
And not just pictures that look like they have a play button

Next, Kat and I swimsuited up and went off to try the other pool at the hotel. We enjoyed the warm bath water alone for a while, but were eventually joined by this young looking couple that was celebrating their 20 Wedding Anniversary! I guess maybe it's cause now I'm older, but these two didn't look older than me to be married for so long, so I told them that. And, of course I told them by making inappropriate jokes about how she must have been his child bride. The two didn't miss a beat, first the husband says that it was a bit of a shotgun wedding, and his wife follows up with "Not that it needed to be, my dad is just always holding his gun."

We then went and swam in the lagoon a bit, where I decided it was time to pick off my nail polish. Thanks Robyn for trying, they lasted 7 days longer than I typically last with nail polish, for a total of 8 days.

Print picture, cutout shapes,
add extra squares?

I, then, was pretty certain that I needed a nap, and went back to the room. Turns out that I didn't need a nap, I needed to watch the new season of RuPaul's drag race and play some puzzle. This puzzle has a lot of neat colors, but also a few oddities about it. It is an "Escape Room" puzzle, meaning that it has a secrete meaning in the picture that will then lead to another puzzle when we finish putting it together. This also means, that the instructions in the box said "Puzzle will not look like picture on box". What? hmmm. Additionally, there are a bunch of square pieces in the box that are not puzzle pieces. The instructions in the box said to sort these out... and throw them away. Now, I'm not sure what it takes to make a puzzle, but I am pretty certain it might be easier to just not make those pieces in the first place.

To wrap up tonight, we tried eating at the healthy food restaurant. This was fun for a couple reasons. First, it is the only air conditioned restaurant in the whole place, and it is relatively new. Being a new addition to the hotel, we were literally the only people in the place. Second reason, our server was adorable. After seating us, she asks what kind of music we want to listen to, seeing as we are the only people in the place. Neither Kat nor I had much thoughts on picking a music choice, and instead ask the server what she liked to hear. She kind of perks up and this, and then asks if it is ok to play Meghan Trainor. Yeah love, do whatever you want. The food was great, but made even better by the seated dance party we shared for the rest of the meal in our practically private restaurant.