Hola Everyone. It has been a pretty busy weekend for me. On Friday, we took an sort of field trip to an ecological hotel. They are very conscious of their environmental impact. All the buildings were made out of materials that were environmentally friendly and all of the water they use is natural rain water that they store in a large basin--they also use that water for irrigation. Our guides were super-friendly and easy to understand even though they only spoke Spanish. After we toured the grounds, they treated us to a light breakfast and gave us a book about Palma and some information on their resort.
Above is the entrance to the Pollentia Club Resort (http://www.clubpollentia.com/ if you want more pictures or information).
We took charter buses on both Friday and Sunday. It was really nice since there were only about 10 of us. We had a ton of room to nap and relax.
The resort had just about every activity. I was really surprised to see archery!
Here is a map of the resort.
After our field-trip to the resort, we spent about 5 hours on the beach. This beach was amazing. It was really shallow and therefore the water was really warm. We played catch with a rugby ball for a long time.
This lady was going around selling melons at the beach. "Melonas melonas melonas!"
On Saturday my brother (Pato) had a showing of his artistic ability and musical talent of his friends. The show consisted of his friends playing music while he painted. It was an interesting concept and I had a good time sitting back and listening to the good music and watching him paint. Above are: Pato, Chandler (he won the raffle for the painting), Myself, and Ian (Pato's friend).
Above is Pato's finished work.
Here Pato is painting while Angel and Joan sing and play guitar. The bassist was farther to the left and didn't make the picture.
I snapped this photo as we walked to the venue.
Here is a shot of the beach we went to on Sunday when the sun peaked through!
This kid climbed inside an olive tree. The olive trees here are so cool!
Here's a shot of the guys at the Tower of Verger (Chandler, Me, Nick, Conrad).
One of the views from the Tower
We stopped here because we got rained out of our original destination. We decided to just sight-see from the bus to stay dry. The rain stopped though so we exited the bus a couple of times to take in the amazing views.
This rock with a hole in it was at one of our destinations that got rained out.
Here is when the sun first poked through the clouds. This is an old broken boat that was on the rocks by the port.
Here is a shot of my yacht with my jet ski on the back.
...and here is my Rolls Royce
This picture was supposed to come before all the yacht pictures but oh well. It is the entrance to the port we walked through. Club de Vela.
Nick and I tried out a cool looking thin at the park there!
Here was a good photo op @ the port.
Map of the port
After busing around, we finally made it to a beach. It was really cold at first with all the cloud cover, but within half an hour or so the sun came out and it was a perfect day!
Here a girl was trying to surf. Once the sun finally came out, the waves started getting a lot bigger too! We went in, despite the water being freezing cold, and had an amazing time body surfing. If you timed it right, you could ride on top of the waves and they would propel you really fast! I had a ton of fun!
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