This post summarizes how we spent Monday and Tuesday. The theme seemed to be Feet.

Ty had a pretty nasty sunburn from Sunday so he wanted to stay out of the sun on Monday. We headed down by where Jay and I had dinner the night before.

Directly above the beach is a row of random shops. Above that is a street full of bars and restaurants.

Lily, Jay and I explored the beach area.

Let me rephrase that. Jay and Lily explored the beach. I got distracted by the foot massage shop along the beach.
See why I got distracted? Comfortable chairs and a gorgeous view.
Even Lily couldn’t resist the temptation of the foot massage. When she asked if she could get one, I just added 15 minutes to mine so we could enjoy it together. 🙂
A shop a little farther down had a bunch of these fish tanks. Lily said she wanted to do it. The things I do for my daughter.
Ready or not….
Er-mer-GERD!!!!! Clearly I had way more dead skin than Lily did because they swarmed my feet. At first we couldn’t stop giggling and had to resist every urge to yank our feet out of the tank. It tickled SO MUCH! But after a couple minutes we relaxed into it and it was oddly enjoyable.

It kind of felt like hot tub bubbles. Of course this was an impulse decision that involved zero research, so when we were sitting at lunch waiting for our food, I picked up my phone and said I wanted to read all about the positive health effects of these little fish. Jay said “you don’t want to do that.” Uh oh. Let’s hope we don’t end up with any weird diseases from that 20 minute experience….

We finally convinced Ty to come out of his room once the sun went down. Lily was worn out and is best friends with the room service guy, so she relaxed while Ty joined Jay and I for dinner.
Tuesday morning we headed back up the mountain to go for a hike. This was a great one!
We started by walking along a large vineyard.
Lily found the horses.
Let’s talk a minute about the terracing. Wow. There are amazing hand built rock walls everywhere. It is actually really incredible to think about the amount of labor that has gone into the structures over the years. This is a newer one, no crops planted on it yet, waiting for the vines.
Part of the trail was a paved road with beautiful little flowers growing along the ditch.
I read on the trail app that these caves were used for food storage. I have nothing to back that up but it sounds lil a good story. One cave had a door on it at one time.
They only went in partway. Jess would probably still be wandering through the caves if she were here.
This vineyard was pretty far up the trail, not easily accessible, but perfectly terraced.
One section of the forest had some fire damage.
This part of the trail was awesome. This a giant wall of lava rock. See Ty standing on the back slope for scale.
The lava flaked off of the wall.
Even Lily thought it was cool.
Ty usually runs ahead on the trails, and when he gets to an intersection he has to wait for us to catch up and tell him where to go. Lily is always bringing up the rear, and let’s just say she prefers to take her time and enjoy every inch of the scenery. This leaves Ty with a decent amount of time to wait. Today he occupied his time in an interesting way. Maybe he was thinking about the Spanish beaches….
This was the least manicured part of the trail, but was kind of neat to walk through. Ty started singing “a whole new world”
Jay hung back and made sure Lily didn’t fall too far behind.
I could have taken dozens of photos of the pretty flowers growing in seemingly random places. I loved how these were hanging on the edge of the cliff.
Ty wanted to lick the clouds to see if they tasted like cotton Candy. This was as close as he got.
That rock wall was really old.
We made it!!! A whole field of wildflowers was the prize for finishing.

We were all pretty hungry after the hike, so we tried a late lunch at a Tex Mex restaurant. Let me be clear. Spanish food does not equal Mexican food. The chips and “guacamole cream” were similar. That’s about where it ends. They did this weird thing where they put pomegranate seeds on every dish. Nachos, burritos, everything. and they didn’t put a lime in the margarita. I think we need to stop trying and just wait for Mexican food when we visit home.

15,173 steps was about all my feet could handle today without another foot massage. Jay and Lily went for an evening stroll to watch the sunset. Gorgeous.