We loved our villa/triplex/hotel room at Punta Islita. While featuring no waterfall showers and fireplace jacuzzis, it was roomy with the best and most private backyard.
A hammock...
...and a plunge pool! It may have felt a little useless if it was just Dwayne and I, but this little plunge pool was probably responsible for about 30% of our family happiness at Punta Islita. The very first night, they all jumped in after dinner.
I struggle with relaxing on most vacations (there is so much to see and do for this overachieving doer!). But, while there was a lot to do, we could manage an activity or two in the morning and then another one or two things much later in the day, leaving several hours for siesta in the middle.
We certainly spent time in the family pool and getting sand down our suits while boogie-boarding in the ocean, but we also learned quickly how to enjoy down time in our own place. We bought what we needed to make PB&Honey sandwiches, cut up one of the many pineapples, papayas, or melons we had bought earlier, and had lunch together out on the patio. Wesley and Piper spent a lot of time in the bitty pool, while Kyla alternated between plunging and audiobooks. I read and read, and Dwayne snoozed and read.
We roused ourselves for Cookie O'Clock (Co'C), and opened a pack of whatever new-to-us Costa Rican cookies we bought at the mini-mini mart. We liked Co'C so much that it will be a family custom when we travel the world next year.
Truly, if we could just teleport home (bypassing airports and red-eyes), we would come home relaxed as sleeping puppies.
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