Easter Sunday. Or as Cousin Jessi says “the day that Jesus failed at the whole YOLO thing.” Daylight savings hit us up overnight, so our already late sleeping schedule got extended by an hour. By the time we got the kids up and ready, it was around 11:00, too late to go to Lori Park as planned. No problema, we will do something else. We missed breakfast, so we decided to find a seaside restaurant for lunch. Jay literally looked at Google Maps and said “let’s go here”. “Here” was Restaurante Panorama. The whole time we have been on the island, we have been surrounded by tourists. Not this morning. We found a local hangout along a black sand beach. We had a delicious lunch then wandered along the beach, inspecting every tide pool along the way. We saw tons of snails, some crabs – even a spider crab with super long legs, dead crabshells (remains of a bird’s lunch), little tiny shrimp looking things, and fish. Ty could spend all day exploring tide pools.

Let’s talk about bananas for a minute. All along the coastline there are huge fields covered in these tan nets. Underneath are banana plants. So. Many. Banana fields. 150,000 metric tons of bananas are shipped from Tenerife annually, with 90% going to Europe. The soil is great for growing bananas with high potassium and phosphorus content.