Day Eleven - A Huge Bottle of Pepto Needed

The view from this condo is great but the interior decor leaves something to be desired. It's like the ocean threw up on it or something. The owner purchased the condo in 1994 and you can tell that since then, every time she sees anything that has anything to do with the ocean she buys it "for the condo." And that every time that any of her friends see anything ocean related they buy it for her, you know, "for the condo." There are a lot of seashells and lighthouses, and palm trees and fishes and on and on and ON.

The hibiscus bedroom complete with Adirondack lamp and surfboard wall hanging...

The fish bedroom....

The master bedroom with shell wallpaper border and obligatory ocean painting...

And palm tree bedding set...

Fish wall clock in the kitchen...

As well as lighthouse wallpaper border and lighthouse statues in the kitchen...

With whale tail knobs for the cabinets...

The living room - my gosh, the living room!! Netting and lighthouses and ship wheels...


Curtain valences with sailboats and lighthouses...


Starfish and anchors and shells and more lighthouses - check out the lamps!


And last but not least, the ceiling fan. Look closely and you can see shells on the blades, the globes and the base.



It's all just too much! Why not, at the very least, some coordinating striped curtains or even a solid color? Some normal decorative lamps? A few less seashells? It's like when you go to Disney World and after you've been there for a few days, it seems perfectly normal to walk around with Mickey ears on your head and a Goofy t-shirt on your back. It just makes so much sense. But, then you get home and you suddenly realize that you must've lost your mind there for a few days and you put your ears away and wear your regular clothes again.

Speaking of ocean indigestion, check out what the ocean belched up last night...

This beach was perfectly clear last night and this morning there was this wide swath of seaweed as far as the eye could see. It's so strange. And kinda gross. I wonder what it means and why it happened - was there a storm far out and it stirred up this mess? Will the ocean take it back out or will it just sit there until whoever takes care of the local beaches cleans it up? However it's done, I hope it happens soon.