Hawk will be happy to know that Spam is obviously a big seller here! You name it, they had the flavor of Spam:



This is sunset pic #4, our last from the Bucuti as we moved on Friday morning:



Since fast food is a delicacy for those of us living in Forks, Taco Bell was on our list of one of the restaurants to hit one night:



Pretty much like most US Taco Bell’s except they do make some nacho dishes with fries instead of chips … they were actually pretty darned good!

We finished our night off with a round of mini-Golf at the Adventure Golf Center. It’s attached to the Black Hog Saloon which appeared to be the wild & crazy place … lots of motorcycles ride right through the bar and they had a pretty mean game of musical chairs going on!



Had a good time there … nice playing nighttime min-golf when it’s over 80 degrees! Hopefully our big snafu of the trip took place here though as we decided to take a paddle boat ride and in the paddling position … it’s easy for stuff to drop out of your pocket into the water … like our rental car keys!

No way we were ever going to find them so we got a ride home with one of nice employees (they were so helpful there … One Happy Island should be changed to One Friendly Island as we’ve found out!)

Took a cab back in the morning and the folks at Economy Rental Cars brought us a new set for ONLY $100 …

Oh well, if that’s the worst thing that happens to us during the trip, we’ll be happy!



We moved from the Bucuti to Sunset Blvd. Studios on Friday morning. We loved the Bucuti … the people were extremely nice and very eager to please. Our only complaint was the fried was filled with mini-bar stuff so it was hard to put our own pops / drinks in. We also got some creamer for our coffee and the packets of stuff they have at the restaurant:



and in our room creamer just plain sucked! So we got some back home flavored creamer at the store to take care of that!

After moving, we went snorkeling at another beach to the north of Baby Beach … much nice place to snorkel. It was called Spanish Lagoon I believe. Fewer people than Baby Beach and much nicer coral and considerably more fish. The only thing we didn’t see here that we saw at Baby Beach was the lone Octopus I saw on our first snorkel trip.

On our way, we were able to find what we believe is the Island’s only Coffee House!!!

Our “Hamster”, as we call it, parked in front:



Great blended mochas and a chance to buy some of the many kinds of coffee here that you don’t see back home … most far cheaper than regular Folgers / Maxwell House stuff back home.

Some notes on the Sunset Blvd. Studios where we moved to:

About half the price of the Bucuit. Rooms were nice and quite large (we had the large Garden Studio with oceanview terrace .. view was as good as we had at Bucuti). Nothing musty smelling as many people report about rooms across the island. King bed was fine. Great having a full fridge to keep lots of cold drinks in. Normal sized coffee maker which we sure liked in the morning. People were just as nice ... but we didn't see staff as much here, simply because there wasn't a lot. Smaller pool, but adequate. Lots more lizards around and a few iguanas as well. Bucuti room perhaps had a little more Carribean "flair", but we enjoyed it. Much larger shower. Only drawbacks ... they asked that we keep AC off when we left (not a really big issue) and they forgot to replenish soap. Both a smaller charcoal barbeque and a big gas one available if you wished to cook anything in addition to the full range / oven in our room. North of highrises and very quiet ... we liked that! Could not use laptop on phone system ... but they offered to let us use office line if we wished to hookup with Seatr's 123 access or use calling card to home ISP. Cable did not have US maion network stations as the Buctui did ... not lke we planned on watching much TV, but a factor one night when we may have watched the audition night for American Idol.