What I Got Up To In Tenerife

I'm not gonna lie, I was lazy by the pool most days in Tenerife but here's what I did get up to... 

Our first day away from the hotel we went to Siam Park, the worlds best water park. There were some pretty cool rides but my favourite part was the cool beach with imported sand and 4ft wave machine. 

We picked a good day to go too because it was boiling, the floor burned my feet!

The day after that the boyfriend's mum wanted to go to a musical night... you guys, musicals aren't really my thing... at all. In fact I don't really like them. But saying that the show wasn't too bad, the performers worked really hard. It was ok, however unlike an older couple who were chatting to us I don't think that I would go 3 times. 

The next night for dinner we went to... jousting! If you're a regular reader you might remember I saw some jousting just recently (25 years with no jousting then twice in one year?!). 

So it was kind of similar to the Medieval Times in Canada until it got uncomfortable. They had a black dwarf who worked there only they had made him dress as a jester, so this made me feel a little uncomfortable. I felt much more uncomfortable when they sent him on stage in a grass skirt, greased up to juggle fire... so yeeeah. 

They also had dancing afterwards which they didn't have in Canada. 

The last day we went to Loro Parque which is a zoo. 

They had a load of animal shows including Orcas. 

And dolphins, parrots and sea lions. 

They had a penguinarium with a moving floor revolving around the outside which was really cool. 

There were a ton of other animals and about a million parrots!

They even had a breeding program and baby centre. These parrots were only a couple weeks old.

Cute!

Off To Tenerife

I was off again after just getting back from the USA. The boyfriend and I went to Tenerife with his mum and her partner. 

We stayed in a two bedroom apartment which was pretty big and had a wrap around balcony which was nice to relax on. 

And the apartment was in a hotel complex on the more arid and volcanic side of the island. 

The beach was really rocky but the pool was lovely and warm so we stayed at the complex a lot of time. There weren't loads of shops in a walkable distance but the hotel complex had a little supermarket so I could buy my obligatory inflatable rubber ring for the pool. 

Every time I go on a hot holiday I buy an inflatable something and then my good deed at the end of the holiday is to give it away to other people to use. 

I think normally the entertainment at hotels in foreign countries is usually a little... dodgy? Cringy? But I didn't think it was so bad, most of the acts had been booked in from outside the hotel. 

Also I trounced the old people twice in contests and won a bottle of wine and a cocktail. Hurrah!