Every person sitting around the pool is interesting, if you know enough about them. Rita is a friendly soul and chats with people who stop to comment on her boot/cast, but who mostly want to relate their travails with a broken leg. She and Ian have spent quite a bit of time by the pool, and have made friends. This afternoon I spent all afternoon with them so I got to meet some of them.
One couple from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, live there for six months and the rest of the year at a tiny town in Newfoundland. His 4 sisters and their families still live there. Since retirement 5 years ago they have driven and taken the ferry, but starting this year, they will leave a car in their garage and begin flying. This is the first winter they have been at Playa Royale. They came expecting to stay 3 weeks but they changed their plans and will be here until the end of March. They have already booked here next year. The wife was born and raised in Manitoba but she loves Newfoundland. The husband went west to work in the mines and ended up in Manitoba. This summer they have planned a driving trip around Nova Scotia and have already selected the south shore as one of the areas they will visit.
Canadians are everywhere here. One very nice couple are from Winnipeg which is very cold right now. Another man from the hot tub lives in Kamloops. When I tell people I come from Mississippi they seem puzzled because everyone else comes from the north. And I don't seem to speak southern.
Our afternoon sitting by the pool was a delight, topped off by a margarita. We actually did not go up until after 6. The people at the pool kept us entertained.
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