5th July 2011 - cuba

Today was another lazy day - we read, lazed by the pool - I think we went to the beach for a bit too.  I cant really remember much about what we did during the day.
I do remember that as we got ready to go out we got torrential rain and a huge thunder storm.  This wasn't anything to be sad about - it was amazing to watch! You can just about hear the thunder on this video clip

We had all got ready to go out, so we were waiting for the rain to stop.  In the end we gave up and decided to use the big umbrellas provided in the rooms.  However, when we came to get ours - it was gone! The same happened with the ironing board.  It seems that if somebody else requested something they just randomly took stuff out of you room and gave it to somebody else! So I used the brolly I took with me, the twins used the one they still had in their room - and Andy got wet! lol
We decided to have a few drinks before we went to eat and we sat in a square covered area, with water all around it - watching the rain.

You can just about see the rain in the background

Lissa managed to get her head in this one! lol

We then went for food.  I cannot remember which restaurant we went to - but I think that it was the night that there were so many mosquito's as we tried to eat that it was just really annoying and off-putting.  The food wasn't great either so I think we ate a bit then legged it! lol.

On the way back to our rooms we saw a crab running along the path.  As it saw us it ran into the bushes but we got a picture!

We saw many more of these crabs during the holiday - land crabs apparently!  One night I quietly watched on go under the table whilst people were sat there unaware.  It crawled over a women's foot and she just flicked it away without realising what it was - then suddenly they became aware of it and it ran away so quickly! I couldn't believe they could move so quick! I would have been quite freaked if that had been my foot it had crawled over!

Another early night was had as we were off on another trip early the next day!