Sunday, March 12, 2017 – Rest, Ride and Recovery Day

Well, just as I suspected, the food we had for dinner was obviously laden with salt or some sort of sodium, because Hubby was so out of breath he got dizzy and almost fell over when he got out of bed this morning. We had plans to go riding this morning, but there was no way he was in a fit state to go! I went ahead without him, as he was stuck in bed anyway. It was just a short ride on the beach, but I’ve always found beach riding a bit boring at best, anyway, so it didn’t need to be any longer. It wasn’t terribly enjoyable, partly because the horses just looked way too skinny to me (though there was a cute colt following us around, evidently I was riding his mother, which made it interesting when he decided he wanted breakfast, I had a few tense moments as she tried to kick him away), and partly because the sunburn I received yesterday was REALLY painful this morning, and riding on it killed me all the way. We only went up the beach about a mile, then back again. We had a few short trots (ouch, ouch, ouch!) And then I finally managed to get my horse, Moscow, into a canter, which was a very nice slow lope, but still a bit ouch-y for me on my sunburn, before arriving back at the resort. I took a walk along the beach later in the day, intrigued by some weird swirls in the sand, and discovered they were tiny sand crabs, digging holes, bringing up little round balls of sand that they then arranged like landscaping and sidewalks around their little abodes. Considering it would only last until the next tide came in, it seemed like a lot of pointless work to me! But nature has it’s own rhythm, not for me to question! Fascinating to watch, though, and I did for a while, before heading back to our room. The rest of the day we spent mostly in bed, with Hubby slowly recovering and me continuing to slather on lotion. In the afternoon he was finally well enough to eat something, so I managed to persuade the kitchen to make me a couple of egg sandwiches (which they did using hard-boiled eggs), and NO seasoning, at last! Afterward we went back to resting on the bed, until Danuk and her bookkeeper-friend came around and wanted me to join them on the porch, asking about how Hubby was doing. Of course, I explained, and we ended up chatting for a while, until it was time to go to dinner, so I sent them along and managed to get Hubby up and going, and went to dinner. Tonight, they made him some steamed fish, steamed carrots (cut length-wise), and white rice. Not much, but it satisfied him for the moment. It was a much earlier night tonight, in bed by 9:00, we have an early start tomorrow. We originally were only going to stay two nights here, because we had planned on staying in Kuala Lipis overnight, but decided an extra day here would be more relaxing, and the drive to Kuala Lumpur was only about 7 hours anyway, which is no big deal. So off to bed we went, with another early morning planned!