Day 10 started with a very intentional decision: this was going to be our laziest day yet. We woke up and ordered room service, because leaving the room felt like too much ambition for the kind of day we had planned. After breakfast, we showered and went downstairs for our scheduled couples massage, which really locked in the theme. From there, we went down to the pool, grabbed a pair of loungers facing the ocean, and parked ourselves there for the next four hours. We had more Portuguese lessons with our server, who insisted that our Portuguese was good, but he definitely told that to everyone who attempted Portuguese with him. At some point, we saw someone with a really good-looking drink. We had no idea what it was called. The server didn’t seem to know either, so we took a guess and ordered daiquiris, hoping they would be the same thing. They were not. Then we got talked into ordering a giant pineapple full of piña colada to share, which felt like the correct vacation choice. Unfort...
We woke up with the intention of getting breakfast and going hiking. However, after breakfast, Kaylea was still very tired, so we hung around the hotel and blogged for another hour or so before venturing out for the hike. Getting started proved to be harder than we anticipated. First, we could not find the exit to the garden that led out to the trail. Once we finally did, we realized the construction was blocking the main trail entrance, and all the garden gates were locked. Back inside and upstairs we went, then out the main entrance, through the parking lot, and back through the construction. From there, it was a steep hike up the hill to the first cliff. We hiked cliffside for a while, some of it behind barriers and some of it open and uncomfortably close to the drop. Our first stop was a big sinkhole in the middle of the cliff, behind a barrier, leading down to caves below. We remembered how our guide from yesterday had pointed out hikers unknowingly standing over nothing, just a f...