I knew as soon as the words left my mouth I'd made a mistake. "Stupid, stupid, stupid," I said to myself, but it was about thirty seconds too late.
Carol and I'd gone on mini vacations with our neighbors Kevin and Jill for the last two years. The cruise was fun and so was the trip to St Augustine. So when Carol planned this year's excursion, she invited them without even talking to me first. I wasn't happy.
"Hon, I was hoping to have you alone this year. When you travel with other, we sometime do what they want instead of what we want to do."
"Steve, why didn't you say something? I'm not a mind reader, and you can't say you didn't have fun with them." She had me there.
This year we were going to Sanibel Island for a little sun and sand. For once I wanted to kick back and be a tourist. We booked sixth floor adjourning rooms at the Holiday Inn. They wanted to car pool but I nixed that idea when I saw what my wife was packing. I considered renting a moving van.
"Carol, it's five days, not two weeks," looking at her three large suitcases.
"I need to make sure I've got everything covered. How about if it rains or get cold?'
"Babes, this is Florida. Somewhere it's going to rain every day and cold? You'll have to wait until November for any of that.
We left at the crack of dawn Saturday morning and drove the eight hours only stopping once. We couldn't check in until 2:00 and my wife wanted to be there at 2:00 and not a minute later. Carol talked non-stop with Jill giving her a blow by blow where exactly we were. Hell, they were only twenty minutes behind us and had a GPS, they weren't going to get lost.
At 2:10 we pulled in the parking lot, got our key cards and with a huge cart dragged everything we owned up to our room.
"Steve, look at this view," Carol said, opening our patio door. She was right it was a spectacular ocean view."
For the next half hour we unpacked and put everything away.
"Guys, you see the view," Kevin said bursting into our room. "And how about that pool? They've got a damn swim up bar. Carol you did a great job picking this hotel. Give us twenty minutes to get settled and then let's hit the pool. Time's a wasting."
I looked at Carol. "See what I mean?"
"Steve, kick back and go with the flow. This is a vacation and I don't want to schedule anything.
I took her advice and with swim trunks, sunscreen and sunglasses we hit the pool but also hit the bar harder than we probably should have. We didn't have anything substantial in our stomach and by the third round I was feeling no pain.
I'm a touchy feely type of guy and while I was putting sunscreen on Carol, I did everything but fuck her right there on a pool deck lounger.
"Get a room!" Jill said laughing.
"Wait a minute, we do have a room. Come on hon, we've got a bed to crisen."
Like I said, we were pretty wasted. Carol and I ended up crising both beds before taking a little nap afterwards.
When I woke up I felt like shit. I took a quick shower, brushed my scuzzy teeth and then realized that we hadn't shut the door between the two rooms. Shit, maybe they hadn't heard us. Over dinner I realized we hadn't been that lucky.
"Well Carol it sure sounded like you had fun this afternoon," Jill said playing with her salad. Carol smiled, I blushed. "I would have had the same fun if Kevin hadn't fallen asleep on me."
"Well, there's always tonight," Carol, said, squeezing my thigh under the table. "And we'll even shut the door to give you guys more privacy then you gave us."
Dinner was great. I could cut my steak with a fork and everything else was top notch. I ordered a bottle of wine and sipped it over dinner instead of gulping it down like I had this afternoon. Kevin and I talked sports while the wives whispered among themselves, looking our way once in a while.
"Kev, I think our wives are planning something I said softly."
"I don't know what Jill has planned for tonight, but what I've got planned will probably keep you guys awake at least for a couple of hours. If you've got ear plugs you might want to use them when we get back."
"Funny, I was going to tell you to turn on your television extra loud because I wouldn't want to ruin your concentration." Okay, we both talked trash at each other until our wives put a stop to it.
"I'd be thankful if he lasted fifteen minutes in the saddle," Jill said, looking at Carol.
"Same here, but at least Steve's got a secret weapon he can fall back on if his little head doesn't get the job done. He just can't talk when he's using it," she replied back to Jill, as they both smiled.
"See boys, woman can trash talk too," they said in unison. With that, our first day ended.
We got it on again but it was nowhere as wild as it had been this afternoon. After a quick shower, we were spooning with pillows over our ears. Looks like Jill and Kevin were trying to entertain us.
"They can't still be going at it,' I said looking at my night table clock. "I think they're trying to show us up because of this afternoon."
"We did get a little crazy didn't we?" Carol said with a wicked look in her eye. "Jill asked me if you were as good as I sounded." She paused I think for effect. "I told her you were better." At that point she tried to take out my tonsils with her tongue. She was thirty-five years late but we had had fun anyway. I don't even remember falling asleep.
"Where in the hell are you going?" Carol asked the following morning, watching me lace up my tennis shoes.
"On my morning run. Where do you think I was going?"
"Steve, we're on vacation. What about sleeping in don't you understand?
"That's why I'm leaving, so you can rest up. Because, if I stay, I can guarantee you, you won't be sleeping." I let my hands wander under the sheets.
"Go. Just go so I can sleep. When you get back, make sure you shower before coming back to bed."
"Yes dear," I said before walking out the door.
Three mile out and three back about did me in after yesterday's activities. I'd drunk more yesterday than I normally did in a week. I'd watch it today.
When I hit the lobby, I saw Jill heading towards the restaurant. "Morning Jill, Kevin still asleep?
"Steve, you're all sweaty. What the hell have you been doing so early this morning?"
"Went out on my morning run about an hour ago."
"You've got way more energy than I have this morning. You want to grab a bite out on the main deck?"
"Sure, just let me get a towel from down by the pool and then I'll join you." Instead of just getting a towel, I took my shoes and i-pod off and jumped into the pool fully clothed. I needed to cool down and wash off the sweat. I dunked myself a couple of times before getting out. Now I needed the towels.
"What did you do, go swimming?" Jill asked watching me dry off.
"Yup. But unlike at home, I kept my clothes on here."
"You are one strange bird Steve."
We ordered breakfast and had a great time. She, like me, was a morning person. Our spouses would have slept until noon if we'd let them but, we were on vacation and it was already past 10:00.
