Poolside

Another beautiful day in Santa Fe. It's a very relaxed, stress-free environment. Everyone moves at a very slow pace here (other than the driving speed). Sometimes the phones work, sometimes not. Sometimes the elevator works, sometimes not. Stores may be open, maybe not. Mark and I are having a heck of a time with wake-up calls. You can do it by punching numbers in on the phone in your room but it may or may not work. One day I got my call but it was 24 hours late. We've totally given up on the alarm on the little clock radio in the room. I can't turn on my cell phone 'cause the radio in the room buzzes continuously. I phoned the hotel desk for a wake-up call. The first day they called. The 2nd day they never called. So last night we asked Dave to phone us at 6am. He forgot. Luckily Mark woke up at 6:15am threw on his clothes and he was out the door to be a the airport by 7am. Kelly and I went to the buffet breakfast, filled a bag full of pastries (they're big on pastries here and they're delicious) and jumped in the Peugeot. We were feeling really confident today and decided we didn't need a map to drive the 20 minutes to the airport. Over 1 hour later we finally arrived after getting lost twice :-)

After flying was over we took the car back to the hotel and walked down the road to an unexplored shopping area. After a few purchases (by Kelly) we found a restaurant and had lunch ($41.00 pesos or $12.60 inc wine & beer). What we thought we ordered wasn't what we got but it was delicious all the same. I don't know if it's because they don't speak English or our Spanish is really bad, but like the telephones, ordering a meal is hit and miss. We strolled back thru the town to our hotel and went up to the pool. We enjoyed yet another bottle of wine and the guys showed up about an hour later. Much shenagans went on in the pool with 'Marko Mechanico' attempting the F3A pattern in the water (check Dave's blog for more photos).

At 8pm we're walking to a steak house for dinner as the team flys in the afternoon tomorrow so we can all have a sleep in (good thing as I can't get a wake-up call).