De-icing the airplane. The night before we left, there was a big snow storm. I think we left the house at 7 and finally made it to the hotel around 10. Mostly, this was due to the fact that we got to Hespler before we remembered that we had to drop the key off at Oli's. Then, once we got back to Oli's, we couldn't get in right away as he wasn't there and didn't have his BlackBerry on him in order to buzz us in. The roads were treacherous and Sarah was freakin out a bit. We parked at an off-airport parking place (DirectFlight). The original plan was to park at the hotel, hoping that parking would be included in the room, but it turned out not to be (warning when using Hotwire). When we finally got to the Park and Fly (Direct Flight, actually), there was a shuttle there (running) but with no one in it. Finally another shuttle came and got us and was nice enough to drive us to the hotel instead of the airport but his driving was crazy given the weather, fishtailing and whatnot. I was entertained, but Sarah less so.

Sunday - Varadero - "everything" pizza at Kiki's

So here we are at Kiki's Club for lunch in Varadero. For some reason, I had thought this was near the hotel (Dos Mares), but in fact it was 40 blocks down the peninsula. Pizza here was good - I got the pizza with everything on it, which had shrimp, roast pork, lots of veggies, etc. Sarah had the margharita. Instead of basil they put some strange tough herb on top that sort of tasted like dandelion greens.

There was a kid catching crabs in the channel. Tourists kept coming up to him for pictures and giving him change in exchange. It's like they've never seen a kid fishing before. I bet he was just catching and releasing so that he could collect donations all day ;)

People were jumping off of the bridge.

Here you can see a pelican, fishing.

Islazul Hotel Dos Mares - it was more ghetto in person but cheap and clean!