It’s hard to believe that our week here ends tomorrow and we are off, however, we are both really looking forward to it and itching to see more. We lazed by the pool this morning and eventually grabbed our two Lonely Planet Guides for Mexico and Central America and our itinerary for 22 days and did some reading about where we are going and what we are doing, which only added to our excitement.
We got roped into a game of shuffleboard. Neither of us had played it before but it consisted of three rounds and pushing some disks down a board to get the highest score basically and the winner was Tan!! Yay!!
We backed this up with a spot of dancing by the pool which was lots of fun. Here's a photo of a photo taken with an iguana from a few days previous. 
We lounged by the pool some more sipping (more than a few, Dan) pina coladas and cervesas (beers).
That night we attended the “We Are The Champions” awards ceremony. Here, Tan collected her certificate and a hat for being the shuffleboard champion.
Wayne and Julia joined us for some more drinks. The show tonight wasn’t like previous nights. It was an interactive spectacular involving women from the crowd, five in fact. If Tan wasn’t already basking in the limelight of the awards ceremony she went one further and got dragged up on stage. Tan was the entertainment!!!
The evening commenced with five women sitting on the stage from Canada, Mexico, Germany, Australia and the UK. The first game that we had to participate in was involved a boa feather with “You Can Leave Your Hat on Playing” and each person had to come out on stage and pretend they were a stripper/pole dancer for the crowd. Tan could not believe what she had gotten herself in for. But she got up there and gave it a red hot go involving the MC lying on the ground with Tan straddling him at one point!!
The next game was each of the woman were given one minute to collect as many items of clothing from the audience in one minute. Tan managed to get both me and Wayne to give up their pants, t-shirts, shoes – to the point they were sitting in the crowd in nothing but their underwear. When the items of clothing were tallied up (bonus points for the pants) Dan came up near stage in his jocks, stuck a pose for the audience and collected his pants. Wayne, not feeling quite so brave, slide off his seat and tried to hide under the table for a moment before collecting his not moving far from the table! 
The final game involved dressing in a Mexican outfit and playing a film star Maria. Basically Maria was sweeping her floor in her house, when her husband came in the house. “Maria” told him to get out and then her lover comes in and she has to pretend to be passionate with him and the husband sees it and shoots them both. Make sense? Each person had the same scene but had to act the part of Maria differently, in that one was slow motion, was fast, one pretended to be Japanese and Tan got to pretend she was drunk. It’s probably one of those “you had to be there” moments but it was very funny.
At the end of the show all of the girls were given their “booty” of a hat, bottle opener, bum bag and a bottle of champagne. 
We promptly opened the champagne and shared it with Julia and Wayne.
It was fairly awful but we didn’t care. We called it a night around 1.30am and on the way back saw the coati’s. Dan had been chasing from when we first saw them and he was without his camera. So he went searching through the bush to find them and photograph them making him a very happy man!
We got roped into a game of shuffleboard. Neither of us had played it before but it consisted of three rounds and pushing some disks down a board to get the highest score basically and the winner was Tan!! Yay!!
We backed this up with a spot of dancing by the pool which was lots of fun. Here's a photo of a photo taken with an iguana from a few days previous. We lounged by the pool some more sipping (more than a few, Dan) pina coladas and cervesas (beers).That night we attended the “We Are The Champions” awards ceremony. Here, Tan collected her certificate and a hat for being the shuffleboard champion.Wayne and Julia joined us for some more drinks. The show tonight wasn’t like previous nights. It was an interactive spectacular involving women from the crowd, five in fact. If Tan wasn’t already basking in the limelight of the awards ceremony she went one further and got dragged up on stage. Tan was the entertainment!!!The evening commenced with five women sitting on the stage from Canada, Mexico, Germany, Australia and the UK. The first game that we had to participate in was involved a boa feather with “You Can Leave Your Hat on Playing” and each person had to come out on stage and pretend they were a stripper/pole dancer for the crowd. Tan could not believe what she had gotten herself in for. But she got up there and gave it a red hot go involving the MC lying on the ground with Tan straddling him at one point!!
The next game was each of the woman were given one minute to collect as many items of clothing from the audience in one minute. Tan managed to get both me and Wayne to give up their pants, t-shirts, shoes – to the point they were sitting in the crowd in nothing but their underwear. When the items of clothing were tallied up (bonus points for the pants) Dan came up near stage in his jocks, stuck a pose for the audience and collected his pants. Wayne, not feeling quite so brave, slide off his seat and tried to hide under the table for a moment before collecting his not moving far from the table! The final game involved dressing in a Mexican outfit and playing a film star Maria. Basically Maria was sweeping her floor in her house, when her husband came in the house. “Maria” told him to get out and then her lover comes in and she has to pretend to be passionate with him and the husband sees it and shoots them both. Make sense? Each person had the same scene but had to act the part of Maria differently, in that one was slow motion, was fast, one pretended to be Japanese and Tan got to pretend she was drunk. It’s probably one of those “you had to be there” moments but it was very funny.At the end of the show all of the girls were given their “booty” of a hat, bottle opener, bum bag and a bottle of champagne. We promptly opened the champagne and shared it with Julia and Wayne. It was fairly awful but we didn’t care. We called it a night around 1.30am and on the way back saw the coati’s. Dan had been chasing from when we first saw them and he was without his camera. So he went searching through the bush to find them and photograph them making him a very happy man!
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