Friday

Today was our day at the spa; we got to sleep in a little, which was nice, and had some time to sleep on the bus too. The spa was really nice, but not what I expected. It was pretty fun, but it would have been significantly better it if hadn't been cold and rainy. We played soccer shortly after we got there, before it started really raining. It was actually a lot of fun, and so I was glad that I didn't stick with my original impulse to sit out. It started drizzling a little, which made the concrete pretty slippery; I had the honor of being the first to fall, of course, but several others followed me lead.

After soccer we had lunch, which was really good; there was an extensive buffet with tasty mashed potatoes. Unfortunately, we couldn't swim after because it was bring your own towel (which we hadn't) and you needed a swim cap (which we chose not to purchase from the lobby).

When we got back we hung around for a bit, before heading to dinner. Almost the whole group ended up going together to the Chinese place right next door to the hotel (different Chinese place than before). It turned out to be a really fun dinner, and my food was great! I had ordered the vegetable chop sui, which I mostly didn't recognize (it looked like vegetables, just not ones I could quite identify - maybe leeks and bean sprouts and some other things). I was skeptical, but it had a really good sauce.

We were looking for this one place called Stingray, but we couldn't really find it at first. It turns out we had walked past it multiple times. We definitely got there too early because there was almost no one there and they were still setting up and they had no change at first. After a while it picked up and we found the second dance floor, which was better than the other... The music was a lot of stuff that we all knew, different from what they were playing at Huevo.

Tomorrow begins our free weekend, which looks like it might be dampened (both literally and figuratively) by the weather :(