Highlights of my Day... Thursday, February 4

1. Today marked the last day of our honeymoon and so we spent the whole day at the pool but not before Snickers stuffed my Adidas bag with bananas, yogurt, cheese, and apples on last time… hahaha.

2. Took a taxi to go collect our supposedly “great” grand prize. They tried to get us to sit in on some kind of presentation and so we played dumb, acted like we only spoke Korean and like we only understood a little English, so we totally got out of it. I got to peel off the little gold tab and low and behold but what should I win but a week holiday for two. They say I get to pick whether I want to go to their hotel in Bali, Thailand or some other place but consider the cash we’d have to dish out for plane tickets, food, tourist things, and whatnot, it was hardly a prize at all but just a gimmick both Snickers and I were definitely not falling for.

3. We played volleyball for a bit in the one pool but then it was over to our regular spot at the pool we were so quick to fall in love with.

One of the other pools at our resort.

4. I don’t think Snickers could have possibly got any browner than he had and so I made him plaster on the sunscreen lotion one last time. We had joked earlier about the only other Koreans at the pool, a mother with two kids, who had plastered on the sunscreen so thick that her kids’ skin couldn’t even absorb it, so I did the same with the lotion on Snickers’ nose… hahaha.

He doesn't look impressed.

5. Pool games, like playing ping-pong, cards, and having numerous swimming races and hold-your-breath races meant I royally kicked Snickers’ butt…. hahaha.

6. Headed off to Sogo for last minute treats for the plane and to pick up a few things. On the way back we ran into a group of kids, one of which blurted out “that’s Monkey Man!” Great, ever since Snickers did that monkey face for that little Russian girl he’s acquired quite the reputation with the kids. I guess now he really has no right to say he hates monkeys, after all, according to a group of under ten years old kids he is one.

7. Everything was running smoothly today, as has since we got here, but tonight we hit a bump in the road, a big bump in the road. It came in the form of a letter slipped under our door and it was from the front desk saying that we had to pay one day’s stay extra. Needless to say, I certainly wasn’t going to be so easy to pay this, so we headed out to talk to those at the front desk.

8. The front desk guy was nothing short of a sweetie and he totally apologized for whoever told me initially that us checking out later in the day was not a problem. The manager, on the other hand, was nothing short of a rude and inconsiderate man who deserved every ugly branch that hit him when he fell out of the ugly tree. I started off by making it clear that I wanted nothing more than to resolve this easily and quietly. “This is my honeymoon” I told him, “and I don’t want my last memory of it to be of me arguing at the hotel.” It was clear he didn’t care and it was especially clear he didn’t care when he picked up a phone call when I was in mid-sentence. I waited for a bit, thinking it’d be a quick call but it wasn’t, so I continued on. Snickers and I definitely had our favorites among the staff and many of them were quite friendly with us not only because we were honeymooners and sweet to them but because word had spread around about Snickers and I being professional boxers. We had posed for pictures for some people and even gave out some autographs, it was flattering but amusing.

9. I thought I’d puff out my chest and use the whole celebrity persona that so many vacationers had portrayed us as being and so I asked him, “Do you know who we are? More importantly, do you know who he is?” My questions sparked a curiosity in him and so his ears perked up. “I bet you don’t and I bet you don’t care but you should and you would and you will when you realize.” And with that I totally punked off the manager and scored a 50% deal on the charge. I shouldn't have had to pay in the first place mind ya. “50%?... you should be paying people like us to stay here!” and off we left. Honestly, it sounded like quite the argument but it really wasn’t. It was more or less a game of mind poker with the manager and I just happened to be a better player. So our honeymoon never did end on a sour note but instead ended with us giggling all the way to the airport.

10. Airports are never much fun but it’s always filled with excessive people watching. Snickers and I were in complete shock though when we saw just how white the vast majority of Asians were. Snickers, on the other hand, looks like he’s changed races… hahaha.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is your attitude worth catching?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-- Herm Albright