*this series is back-dated, so is written as though we are in Turks & Caicos*
Waking early, before the MBTA began running this morning, we were fortunate enough to get a ride from a friend. The flight to Miami was pretty turbulent, but not terrible. With a 2-hour layover, we went to Jose Cuervo Taquileria for tacos and our first official drinks of the honeymoon: Dos Equis.
The flight to TCI was short and easy. Providenciales is literally the smallest airport I've ever seen! Not only do you walk off the plane using stairs (which I've done once before in Iceland), but they only have one baggage claim carousel. We didn't have to crowd around the carousel because some of the employees were pulling bags off of it & grouping them around the claim area; made the process a little easier.
Customs wasn't too bad, and became the source of one of the best stories from the trip. We stood behind a couple who weren't talking all that much. As we are wont to do, we speculated what they were doing in TCI: honeymoon? vacation? wedding? We realized they hadn't been together too long when, as the giant advertisement boards flipped to ads for the one sushi restaurant in the country, the guy piped up with, "Oh, that looks good, I love sushi." "Really? I love sushi too! We should go!" Not long after, they were reviewing their Customs forms & Ellie noticed, on the "Why are you here" line, they had listed Honeymoon. *blinkblink* You are on your honeymoon and had no idea that your partner liked sushi? We really wished we ran into them during the trip.
We took a van to the hotel; even after spending time in England, I'm not sure I'll ever get used to being on the wrong side of the road! It is a little more humid than I had hoped; October is the tail end of summer there, so even the breezes are sticky.
The Sands at Grace Bay is where we are making out home for the next 10 days. It's nice, and our room is amazing, with an awesome ocean view. When we got in, we napped for about 2 hours before putting away our things and headed to dinner at Hemingway's, that hotel restaurant. On the way, we explored the grounds some; I can't wait to see it in the daylight. For dinner, we dived right into one of the most common foods on the islands--conch, in the form of conch fritters, followed by ahi tuna and mahi mahi; washed down with Turks Head beer--Ellie had the lager & I had the amber; I see many more in the future! For dessert, rum cake that was so soaked in rum that we felt a little tipsy after!
We knew about the potcakes, but weren't expecting stray cats! One little grey beauty hung around our table all through dinner. Ellie named her Snowflake, and she seemed to like it because she followed us all the way back to our room. She hung outside of our room for a bit, so we went out to pet her a little more; she was super friendly from many interactions with other guests; it was hard leaving her.
We called it an early night and spent the evening reading through the various tourist guides and relaxing before bed.
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