My Journey With Health And Fitness – Playa Is The Same As White Rock

We had a fabulous day on Sunday. We got together with a group of our friends for a pool party. It was potluck and the food was amazing. The weather was quite warm so there was a fair amount of pool time. Since we are leaving soon it was a great way to spend time with the friends we have made down here.

When I say Playa is just like White Rock I know it sounds strange because there are a lot of differences. This morning we were watching the news from home and heard it was 11 degrees, pouring rain and there was going to be major wind. Here it was already 31 degrees and sunny. And ok, there is no pool ten steps from the balcony off our bedroom in White Rock. But these are all known differences.

What I mean by the 2 locations being the same is that they are both home to us. I think when we set up the condo 6 years ago we were a bit naive as to what life was going to be like down here. Once we started coming down here for longer periods of time we realized we need to treat the condo as our home, not a vacation place. What that means to us is doing things similar to what we do in White Rock so eating out is more a once a week thing (I acknowledge that is not necessarily true this week as it is our last week here and we are trying to get a lot of things done). We have regularly scheduled days to do things like housecleaning and laundry and we stick to that schedule. I have a remote office set up in the condo so that I can work and deal with my volunteer organizations (though the rule is no evening meetings because tequila is usually involved by then). And of course I still workout every day just not quite as many hours.

We have done a number of things that we didn’t think we would need to do to accomplish this. For example, when we 1st set up the condo the only cooking appliances that we bought were an indoor electric griddle and a small slow cooker. To add to that we also bought inexpensive pots and pans. However, once we realized there was going to be more at home cooking during our long stays we came to realize that needed to change. And so to the list we added good stainless steel pots and pans, an Instant Pot, a dual air fryer, a large slow cooker and even a countertop convection oven (we have used the propane oven only a handful of times because it is so hot here you just don’t want it heating up the condo).

Trust me there are many other things we have managed to bring down here. We have enough books to open up a library. We have food items that we can’t find down here (HP sauce, Mrs Dash, to name a few). We have a tv system that allows us to watch all of our channels from home but then has a massive video on demand section. We have commuter bikes which fold up and are easily stored in our closet. Hell, I even have a standup paddle board with an electric pump.

So you see, our home in Playa is basically the same as our home in White Rock. Remember even the cats and dogs because I have befriended pretty much every single one that lives in the complex. This may not have been what we originally envisioned but boy, is it the way it turned out.