Returned to Lucca for my guava juice. We specifically asked to be serviced by Angel. Instead we got Speedy Gonzales. Brian says his name is Hugo. Whatever, the guy didn't have a name tag and felt that his job was to teach us Spanish. He was so annoying I wanted to slap him upside the head. I'm not a morning person and he didn't help. I just wanted to shove a ball gag in his mouth so that he would STOP TALKING! It took forever for me to explain I wanted to speak with Angel to get my Guava juice. He thought Angel was a juice. I had to restrain myself from just shoving him away from me and going to search for Angel. Finally I ignored the guy on speed and went to get my food. When I saw the Guava, I grabbed a plate full and was about to take it to the juice bar. Angel found me and quickly took the plate from me. He explained that he already put the guava juice order in for me. Thank God for Angel.
Brian ended up leaving 2 dollars as a tip for Hugo. I just wanted Hugo to go away.
Swimming
I tried to go to the 50 M pool again. It was clean on the side that was dirty. The far end which was clean had big bugs. I couldn't take it. I left. We went to one of the main pools by our room which was pretty wide. It looked closed to 50 M. Based upon the times for my lap, I think it was 50 M. I completed SKIP w/o a warm up. The first 400 Swim was horrible. I thought, I guess I won't be swimming long today. Finally I made it through the first 400. Everything after that was better. The 400 kick was very good. I enjoyed it. IM was a pain. The fly was too much for me. I gave up after 25 M and switched to a fly drill. The pull was definitely hard. I switched to pull drills instead of just plain pulling. I cooled down 200M. I had hoped to make it to 1.5 miles. Didn't happen. Maybe Saturday or Sunday. I'm going to take a day off and maybe go to the beach tomorrow.
Spa
Spa steam room was closed again. I did an abbreviated spa with just the sauna, ice room and clay. I went naked in the clay again. hheheh. Rebel me.
Afternoon
It was a nice and quiet afternoon. I prepared for my client internal transition to service meeting, only to have someone else cancel it. I was ANGRY. I called up several people. Poor Janell. She said she knew I was going to be angry when I showed up to the meeting only to find it canceled. I then called Jorge to ask what was missing. We had a decent call. He reviewed the document with me and indicated that there wasn't anything Implementation was missing. A couple of outstanding items, I gave him the correct name to speak with so that he could close it. He did say that the post payroll meeting 2 went well and that the client seemed to be fine with payroll. He let me know that even Judit was ready! She is rarely ever prepared or ready and she actually attended the meeting with me. ARGH!! I'm so pissed. I let him know that I was still angry and that I'd be calling Joseph and Chris right after this. I better not be losing my T2S formal meeting with the client.
I left a message with Joseph. He probably heard the call and thought, oh crap. Then I sent him an email follow up from my personal email address. Basically it was another angry rant of how unhappy I was that my meeting was cancelled without my knowledge. I called Chris next. He was traveling and trying to keep me calm as I was close to yelling on the phone. Brian tried to help by giving me glass after glass of champagne. Chris said he didn't think anything would slip and that he'd contact Kathleen. I would have called her if I could have dialed to Canadian numbers. Unfortunately, I could only do US numbers. ARGH!!!!! Still angry about it. Chris told me to forget about it, go drink and enjoy the rest of my vacation.
Thank God I took a nap before my meeting otherwise I'd have really been grumpy. Brian walked around the resort for an hour as I slept.
Dinner
We went to Marina Grill for dinner because Brian wanted to try it. It was actually quite good. The service by David was excellent. The food came out quick. We had about 4 servers surrounding us constantly. We never had to ask for more water or anything. As soon as one dish was finished, they cleared it and brought the next dish out. It was so smooth. I give the restaurant a 4 star. Brian ordered an "authentic" Dominican meal - Chicken, rice and beans. Poor me. Brian wondered how to say authentic in Spanish. We had been kidding around that we just need to add an O and we'd be speaking Spanish. This came about when he looked up furious only to see that it was furioso. So I said authentic is authentico. (It's actually auténtico). Brian asked David and he said, "autentico" is authentic in Spanish. We laughed.
Brian had been wanting Cabra all vacation long. He asked for it and they said they don't serve it because they don't really have that animal on this island. I then remembered that when we rode over to the resort from the airport, I saw no cabra along the road. In Curacao, there were many cabra along the road. mmm, tasty. Anyway, Brian said he did see a lot of dogs along the road. I thought, we aren't in Korea.
Drink Count
Brian
- 1 rum punch
- 1 Presidente
- 1 Caipirina
- 3 glasses of champagne
- 1 caipirina
- 2 glasses of champagne
1 HR (Sept 2008)
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