Anniversary trip - Part 2

Continued from previous post...


Day 6 - Thursday
We started the day out as usual with breakfast at Marriott's Calypso cafe. I commented on a guy that walked through because he looked like he could be Duane's twin, little did we know we'd end up hanging out with him later on...

We spent the day by the pool. We went back earlier than usual to get ready for dinner at the Shiggity Shack since it was bonfire night. I was excited to get there early enough to finally get my lobster dinner. We had a few drinks at the bar and grabbed a table pretty quickly. The place was packed! When we ordered the waitress thought they may be out of lobsters, I was disappointed, it was only about 7 PM! Turns out they went out and got more so I did finally get my lobster, just had to wait a little longer for it. It was delicious. Duane had his usual chicken burger and was elated with it.

During dinner the band started up. The singer was a synthesizer master. Then the bonfire started up. It was a huge pit with wooden pallets burning in it, so it was a pretty big fire right next to the Shiggity Shack and it's thatched roof. Maybe not the best idea but it was cool nonetheless. The next attraction was "Fire Man" - a guy in tight pants that ate fire and rubbed it all over his body. While he was dancing around the restaurant, the band played the same tune OVER and OVER. We can still sing it..."I just can't under-stand...Amazing Fire man. Fi-re! Fi-re!"



After a bunch more drinks we decided to move down to the Monkey bar because I was craving a BBC. All the action was at the Shiggity shack so we sat right down and ordered drinks. The blender ended up breaking so I couldn't have my BBC and while kidding with the bartender about it we got introduced to a few other couples. One of them was Duane's twin! His name was Blake and he and his wife and her friends were on a work trip from North Carolina. We ended up having a ton more drinks and hanging out with them the rest of the night. We moved down the beach to Ziggy's which was much more of a local bar. The wife of Duane's twin insisted on doing Karaoke to Tu-pacs California love. She froze when she got up there, it was pretty funny. The DJ was not amused. We all shared a taxi back to the Marriott then hung out for a little while in the casino. It was a fun night!