Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain

Desert! Crazy!
Pin Pon!
French Balls aka Bocce - they all hated us, we sucked a lot - we were eliminated within three tries hahaha
Palm treeeees
GREASE LIGHTNING!!!!
Flamenco Dancers! I have videos of this, I'll put it up on youtube when I have a faster internet connection..
One day of crazy games! This is not the day I won, however...You have to wear the crazy hat if you're going to play crazy games!!! Plus...look at the man on the left - his name was Reinhart - and he wore that speedo every single day...god bless him..
The board of events that we could participate in! Check it out! You thought I was kidding about "Crazy Games" - I most certainly was not...
The Beatles during Jukebox night...Let to Right Jesus (Spain), Placido (Canary Islands), Nick (Holland) and Dino (Belgium)
He balanced on all of that! while it was rolling around and moving and everything!! CRAZY!
Jesus as Tina Turner during Jukebox night!
Kissing as many old men as possible!
I'm a trained assassin..
Miss America style...
This is the beach right outside the front doors of our hotel
More beach
Pool - see that right outside the pool is the beach and ocean! Woohoo!!
Lounging in the shade after getting a little too much sun!
Me and Heather by the pool
Me and the beach on the first day!
These guys were crazy - the guy on top is like 80 and did all crazy Cirque du Soleil stuff
Here's me getting my certificate for winning at "Crazy Games"! I had to bounce a ping pong ball on a ping pong paddle attached to one end of a broomstick and catch it in the net attached to the other end...WOOHOO!!
This lady loved to dance! She got the party started with us at the discoteca...
This is Paul! He's 40 and from Liverpool! Recently divorced, 2 kids, his bridge fell out as soon as he got off of the plane in Fuerteventura so that's why he's not smiling - because he has no front teeth...We hung out with Paul and his friend Anne a lot..
So we get into Madrid - and you can tell because there's a sign for an Iowa Cafeteria???? Along with a Kansas one...and another one - I forget which state - I was pissed, I couldn't find a Connecticut one..This was a really cool building in Madrid! Heather wanted a picture with the moon in it, upper left hand corner, so that is how this photo was born

So ok, everyone's asking for a narrative - see you all make fun of me for my detailed accounts of my daily adventures, but you miss it when it's not there! Mwahahaha....anyways, we get to Fuerteventura, take a cab to the hotel and on the way see nothing but desert. We're like great - this is going to be a nice resort where the beach is 5 million miles away and all the pictures lied, etc. etc. However - we turn the corner and there's Riu All Inclusive Resort! and it's right on the beautiful beach and Heather and I have a 2 floor little apartment dealie all to ourselves! FANTASTIC! So, we get settled in and go immediately to the beach. We grab a snack at the snack bar by the pool on the way and then lay out in the sun which is, at that point, setting - but no we are NOT going inside until it is dark out because this is our spring break and we're getting tan, dammit! Ok so after it gets too cold, we go back to our room, unpack and go to dinner...all-inclusive dinner = fantastic, let me just say that...that night we go to the "show" that they put on - this is our first experience of a show that we will come to know and love very much. This night's show involved parrots that could ride tricycles, add numbers and count! Then the entertainment group ("Animacion") came out and did some sort of entertainment thing, I forget...and it was funny and cheesy and basically a whole lot of fun considering the entire resort was full of parents with their kids and people over the age of 60 - and also from EVERYWHERE - the staff had to be able to speak like 6 different languages, and they allll did - so everytime they'd say something they'd say it again in every language - Spanish, English, Italian, French, Dutch, German...it was crazy. So we made friends with the Animacion people pretty quickly, they kept asking us to play games and stuff so of course we did - our first game experience was Bingo - FANTASTIC! Grammy and Grampy would be proud..and then other days our activities ranged from Riflery to Pin Pon (that's Spanish for...Ping Pong...) to "Crazy Games" to Bocce (aka French Balls) to Darts! PS you better watch out, I'm going to train with Grant's air pistol when I get back, I got a bulls-eye one of the days! :) There was a discoteca a few of the nights that we went to and had a great time dancing and being ridiculous at - Paul is definitely the most ridiculous dancer I have ever seen in my entire life - way worse than Elaine from Seinfeld - he kind of just runs around with his arms up in the air teeter tottering back and forth and like stopping every once in a while to do some sort of hilarious jerky motion with some limb or combination of limbs...all the while without any front teeth...hilarious...I really wish I got it on video...anyways, we basically did a whole lot of laying out in the sun when there was sun to lay out in, and when there wasn't we played games or just hung out and chatted...We planned our days around our meals, as you do when things are all-inclusive like that hehehe...annnnnnd it was just wonderful to be able to kick back and relax and not have to worry about money since it was all already paid for or like feeling like we had to go out and see the sights since...there weren't any sights to see! One night, Heather and I ran up on stage to participate in the Miss Riu Oliva Beach contest! We had to do things such as run around the room and kiss as many guys on the cheek as we could, grab balloons and run with them behind our butts and jump on one of the Animacion group's laps to pop them - his name was Jesus, he was pretty cool! Heather won that contest, I won the kissing one though! Hahaha...We kissed a lot of 60 year old guys, it was funny!! then another contest was walking with a book balanced on our heads around cones...Heather won that one too...Another one was placing 10 guys in order from youngest to oldest - I got 1 guy in the right place...hahaha So, needless to say, Heather - or shall I say "Isabella" won - they asked for people from different countries so she said she was Isabella from Italia (and since they said everything in 6 different languages, including English, she played it off pretty well) Anyways, I got a cool certificate for participating and Heather got a bottle of champagne and a Riu beach bag (very cool - pretty jealous haha)...and I got a bottle of champagne for winning at Crazy Games! Although...we didn't even drink them...we left them in the fridge of our room so we're thinking the cleaning staff had a wild time...Let's see...other than that, we saw Flamenco dancers the last night we were there - they were the main show that night - and also Animacion put on a "Grease" production that was entirely lip synced and absolutely hilarious since none of them knew the words very well...another night was acrobatics night (you see the picture above of the 80 year old man on top of the other guy - he was ridiculous - he did crazy Cirque du Soleil stuff) and another night was Jukebox night where all of Animacion did different songs from the 20th century. So, I think that's all the news that's fit to print about our trip to Fuerteventura - bottom line, if you're ever looking for a really fun All-Inclusive Resort to stay at - Riu is definitely my #1 choice :) Love you all! Ciao!