I'd promised the girls there were some cool outlets nearby so after a sleep in I told the girls to get ready. I had to see reception about some charges on my credit card as well as attempt to appeal to Qantas softer side to see if we could be re-routed to fly home from Miami rather than have to take a flight back to NYC to meet our return flight through LAX onto home. The flight had been tough on my knee injury so I was attempting to minimise our time in the air.
The credit card issue was resolved so simply, the Qantas flight, not so much. They wanted to charge me over $1000 a ticket despite my reasons. Oh well, I'll try again when it's closer and maybe when the flight hasn't filled up.
We jump in a cab and head 15 mins away to the Premium Outlets. I do wonder how the prices compare to home. It just seems the cabs have never costed us much. So I take a pic for future reference.
The outlets are out of control. I do wish the exchange rate was better. In saying that, perhaps it was a good thing because we might actually have needed to buy yet another suitcase. You should see a map of this place and the list of shops.
It's so interesting to see what's the norm here. Some shops we were followed around by sales staff. Others we walked through we were greeted by every single staff member we passed. These experiences often made us giggle. Especially as we'd be talking amongst ourselves and then the shadow staff member would answer. It's so unsettling at times. They're obviously working on sales commission.
We head into the food court when we'd realised we were hungry. We just wandered around the options and sat down to eat. Everyone was so friendly and helpful.
After we resist the temptation to buy everything in sight we head back to the hotel with plans to go for a swim because it's quite hot and humid again today. It's been great to have wonderful facilities here at Cabana Bay Beach Resort. We grab the inflatable tubes and head for the lazy pool.
It's so relaxing and I figure it could double as some hydrotherapy for my knee. The girls also coax me in for swim in the regular pool which is so refreshing. The staff kindly deflate the tubes so we can pack them.
We have made an executive decision to have dinner on site and spend our final night going bowling. There is a bowling alley inside our hotel so it's pretty cool. We book in for 7.30pm and freshen up for dinner.
When we arrive at the bowling alley we're surprised to hear they book lanes by the hour. So we can just keep playing till the time runs out. It's actually pretty cool and we have a lot of fun realising that we have completely forgotten how to play.
When we get started we realise the basketball is playing on the big screens above our pins. Winning!!!!
We also didn't realise that the iPads on the tables in front of us is to order food and drinks to be delivered to us while we were playing. Pretty cool.
Jamei claims the title of champion and we head back to the room to settle down for the night. Seems there is a bit of a commotion in the room next door with a mother and two kids outside crying and a couple of security guards hanging about.
I have no idea what is going on but 15 mins later when I head to do some laundry the security staff have increased and the mum and kids are walking to the car park with the dad outside crying. When I come back from laundry the dad is clearly agitated using all kinds of language. It settled down quickly though. I was intrigued and concerned all at the same time.
The girls skyped their dad while I waited for the laundry to be done. And eventually all is done and it's time for bed. I'm a little concerned about tomorrow because I'll actually be driving. Hoping all is ok.
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