Day 1: Birds conspire to bombard me, Lana, and Kris with poop.. targets achieved..
The day had started well enough, me getting a new do and then a great lunch at Kens. After following behind people who were possibly conspiring as a group to keep us driving 10 miles under the limit for the majority of the drive we arrived in Daytona later than we wished - but not terribly behind our informal schedule.
The hotel could not find our reservation at first and that was very frustrating, but they made good on the reservation and found us the 2 rooms we asked for. Me and Kris headed to the Publix to get some groceries since both rooms have full kitchens.
In Publix I found a turtle floating thingee that was made of win. It was so cute that I was desperately trying to convince myself I was not afraid of fish and that I could actually use the turtle in the ocean. It did not work, I was still too afraid of the fish. But I loved the turtle so much. Kris snapped a photo of me and the turtle together. I will share that later.
So I realized I had forgotten my big floppy hat back home. Fail. We went next door from Publix and bought a new one for me and my sister and then decided to get one for Tink. I didn’t get one for Lana because I didn’t know if she would want one.. I have never seen her in one. (I later found out she did want one.) I like my new floppy hat. Not as much as my one at home, but it is still a good big floppy hat.
We got back to the hotel and Mom and the kids and Toneman were already at the pool. We called them in to eat since we had gotten some Publix chicken. MMmmm, Publix chicken. After dinner we all headed back to the pool. The hottubs were closed. The pool was kinda warmish but then the wind was blowing so hard that we were freezing even though it was in the 80s. Weird.
While in the pool I was sharing the story of how I got duck vomit on me in Finland. (A bunch of birds had been circling the hotel and that was making me nervous because I didn’t want any fowl vomit on me again so I was avoiding them by moving to the opposite side of where they flew over.) The birds circled the hotel a lot because every couple of minutes they showed up again. We all were laughing and talking about the birds might poop on us for laughing at them. Eventually the coldness of the wind was getting to us so we left the pool without incident.
At the table where our tables and hats and cameras were.. well.. let’s say the birds wanted to make sure we knew they heard us. Me and Kris and Lana and Tink were standing there talking about whether or not we were going to the indoor pool or the hotel room. suddenly the table was being splashed with brown stuff, I could hear what sounded like drops on my hat, and my camera was getting the brown drops, and Lana (I think it was Lana, maybe it was Tink) was going “AH! It’s raining!” or something to that effect. It happened so quickly, like.. a second or two. I then noticed Lana’s arm.
“AH! You got bird poop!!!” She seemed traumatized. Kris started freaking about her towel. I freaked about my camera. We checked our new big floppy hats - they were pooped on. I freaked about my towel. Lana was lucky with her head, no poop. Thank Kami since she did not have a hat on!
We all went to the indoor pool area and showered off ourselves and our things with the water. I mean this was just weird. It wasn’t just one bird, one poop.. we all 3 got it, the table got it worse than we did.. it had to have been several birds at once. As most people know, I photograph almost everything. I did not photograph the poop.
After being clean we got in the hot tub which was not hot. It was more like the tepid tub.
We stayed til they kicked us out. Back in the room we had cookies. Mmmm cookies! I showered too - a lot. I can't get into the smell of chlorine and I was paranoid of leftover poopness even though it never got onto my actual flesh.
And now I am so tired. My eyes burn after pools and such and that makes me wanna sleep. So I am gonna do that very soon.
You should ask Kris or Lana their take on the poop.. I am sure they will give you a hilarious account as well. It was truly something.