The "Saint Martini is the Color of Her ......" Story

It was an ordinary day. Just got back from the beach! Seems the first few days of our vacation have been rainy and overcast, but when I opened the hurricane shutters this morning, the sun was shining. Forget that the humidity is almost 100%. Hey, we're in the tropics! We talked about which beach to head to when we got up this morning and figured the one with the yellow umbrellas and all the palm trees right down at the bottom of the hill from our villa was fine. I have entered quite a few stories about Orient Beach, sinceit is probably one of our all-time favorites. Beach bars and restaurants, watersport shacks, colored umbrellas, azure to turquoise colored water and cool, soft white sand all make the beach a fantastic spot to visit. On one end of the couple of mile long beach is the Mont Vernon, an old and tired hotel and condo resort which is being slowly restored to it's grandeur while at the other end is the world famous Club Orient which is a naturist beach. Always heavily populated. I made a quick trip to the store for some French pastries for our breakfast and packed our beach bag after eating the treats. We lathered in suntan lotion and dressed for the beach. Down the hill and in a few minutes we were on the beach, soaking up the rays. Noon arrived and we headed to "Baywatch", now called "Andy and Cheryls", for two plates of Mussels Ala Andy. Fantastic!! We each had a couple or three dozen of them in the best garlic flavored red sauce. Add to that the toasted buttered soaked baguette and you have a great meal. No room for dessert! OK, time to head back to our chairs. My dermatoligist would cringe if he saw me laying on the beach, but I have my 85 SPF sunscreen on. He would say, "You look like you have been out in the sun, Mr. LDub," to which I would reply, "But I had my 85 SPF lotion on." And his response? "Looks like it didn't work!" Well, we're reached our orange chairs and yellow umbrellas again. Coverups come off allowing the sun to warm our skin. Me with my sunglasses, hat and a book in my hand and my wife with her sunglasses, Kindle and her Saint Martini ...... nail polish. Less is always better!! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - Pixs from the top are: entrance to the beach from the parking lot, the yellow umbrellas and orange chairs, Cheryl making sure I eat all my mussels, Carol finishing her meal, and back again to the beach.