St. Martin 1/9/17

Today's plan was to drive to Friar's Bay of the French side. As we were leaving, we checked at the front desk to see if we could move to the less windy side of the resort and they had a room for us. We love time on our balcony playing cards and relaxing and it was not possible with the high winds on the Great Bay side. They told was we could make the move, so we quickly packed up. Our new condo has two full baths, a washer/dryer plus two ocean front patios. We are on the first floor - prefer to be higher, but beggars can't be choosers.

Digs #2

Nice patio. No wind and private.

Huge bedroom

After stowing our luggage in D221, we drove towards Grand Case hoping we could find this beach. Ruth had directions from a TripAdvisor person named John. He gave us very detailed directions and we easily found this small bay. There are only two restaurants on the beach. John directed us to Friar's Beach Club. It was at the far end, so we trekked over. What a sweet French spot. We shared mussels au gratin and a Niçoise salad, plus some French rose wine. Very nice!

Friar's Beach Club

Escargot. Yummy!

We loved the decorations on the wall by the coed bathrooms.

After lunch we paid for two beach chairs and an umbrella. What a racket, but I guess everyone needs to make a living. We took a little nap in the shade. Ruth read a bit of A Man Called Ove and then went snorkeling. It was a sandy bottom, but there were several types of fish present, so it was interesting.

Ricky

Relaxing beach

A home with a great view of Friar's Beach.

We took off and headed to the Hertz office to turn in our rental car early. The fee was so high that we figured we could easily take taxis for the same or less per day and that would afford us some days of relaxing on the beautiful Divi property. Look at the great Christmas decorations on this house. They love Christmas in St. Martin!

These folks have the spirit!

More Christmas!

Upon arrival at Divi Little Bay, we discovered that we had missed the Manager's Welcome Party. There was a lot going on. They had vendors selling wares, a raffle and free drinks. We are not very good at being at a resort. We are used to taking off on our own. We did catch the tail end of the party and then went home for a dinner of left overs (just like home).