The girls' suitcase had arrived with no problem, and so they quickly changed into their swimming suits and spent the morning in the pool. Our sun screen hadn't arrived, and so the girls got quite crispy. Yulia went out and found some sun screen in the afternoon so they were protected from then on, but they were crispy the whole vacation!
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| One of the two outdoor pools at our hotel. The other one was for smaller kids, so our kids didn't even consider it. |
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| Life is great! |
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| Sophie and Lexa |
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| Twins! |
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| King coconut tree. They are yellow, and the milk is very refreshing. |
Our hotel had a restaurant in it and we decided that we would try it out on our first night. We were very glad we did. The girls all ordered yummy food - Nika ordered crabs and Lina ordered lobster! Sophie ordered spaghetti and Lexa ordered curry chicken. All of the meals came with delicious salads and with dessert and they were really good. After trying it the first night, we pretty much decided to just eat there every night. Yulia had a different fish entree every night, and I tried a variety of sea creatures as well - with a plate of calamari my last night and a seafood risotto on the third. The meals cost about what a casual dining place would charge (think Chilli's or Olive Garden), but so much better.
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| Happy with their orders |
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| We loved the salads there! |
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| Lina with her zebra lobster. We actually do not know what it is called, but Lina was very happy to eat it! Especially because she got to eat it without any utensils. A win win situation for Lina! |
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| They had two huge German shepherds hanging out in the dining area. Here is one. They were super calm and very friendly. |
Our hotel room was two suites. They were on a separate balcony with its own entrance and a private little pool. The only problem is that the power went off in the girls' room the first night and wouldn't stay on after that. Yulia and I slept in their room on the second night so they could have air conditioning, and after that, we told the hotel that something needed to be done. They seemed a bit surprised that something as little as a lack of electricity would make us unhappy, but eventually they gave us another room in the balcony next to ours. No problems with electricity there. The owner of the hotel was very apologetic and gave us our family dinner for free on the night they moved us into the new room.
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| Our little private pool. |
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| Girls hanging outside of their door waiting for the lights to be fixed. Again. |
Our bag arrived early on Friday morning, and so we had toothbrushes, changes of clothes, and most importantly our swimming suits. Yulia and I joined the girls in the pool in the morning, and in the afternoon we went down to the beach and played there. The girls mostly found shells and waded. Yulia and I also did some swimming. I swam more, but we both went in and swam. The waves in Sri Lanka are quite high - better for surfing than swimming, but it was swimmable and very warm. We stayed at the beach until about five when it started to lose a bit of light, and then cleaned up and ate a lovely dinner. Our second day in Unawatuna was much better than the first!
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| Ocean! |
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| There were quiet a few stray dogs hanging out at the beach. Here is one of them. The beach itself wasn't super clean, there was garbage that the tourists left. |
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| Spencer swimming |
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| They were so excited to get into the ocean but the salty water stung their burnt skin, so they quickly changed their plans to castle building and shell hunting. |
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| Building something that in the next minuted turned to ... |
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| ...this! |
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| Lina watching the ocean. |
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| Finding treasures! |
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| Double trouble! |
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| After 5 pm a lot of locals came to the ocean with their kids. Some of them would go swimming right in their clothes! |
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| More locals coming to the beach. |
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| Coming to our hotel from the beach along the narrow village road. Had to be very careful because those tuk-tuk drivers are sometimes down right crazy! |
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| Not sure why we took this picture but here it is...enjoy! |
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| Our little fruit stand close to our hotel. We got bananas from them a few times. They are cute little bananas that are really tasty! |
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| Yep, perfect for the kids! |
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