A birthday so fun they had to call in the bomb squad

As I mentioned in an earlier post, part of the reason this trip was planned in August was my mom's birthday. I you know my mom at all, her idea of the BEST terp, I mean trip, when she can spend time near water with a fruity drink in her hand with all of us in the same place. Keeping this in mind, we planned a surprise girls day at a local day spa/resort. Little did we know that we were in for a surprise ourselves. (dun, dun, duuuuun!)

We left the men with the under 10 set, and we set off for a neighboring island. We checked into the spa, sipped tea in robes and waited for our services which were going to tip off a whole day of steaming, snacking, and lounging at the resort's pools and jacuzzis without a chorus of mom, mom, moms and no, no, nos. once properly steamed, we headed to lunch and the bar. We were enjoying a bunch of sweet potato fries and strawberry mojitos when our waiter let us know that we had to evacuate because someone called a bomb threat.. At first we thought he was kidding, but unfortunately he wasn't. We grabbed our drinks and walked to the evacuation zone, which was a shadeless open field on a very hot day. After 30 minutes and no end in sight, we told a slight fib about where we were parked and ended up running to the car, a lot closer than I remembered to the building. Three hours later, when we passed by the resort, the beaches were still empty. We made the right decision, plus we salvaged a birthday.
 

(above photo was before we left)

(below photos is of lunch part one)