Easter Sunday and everyone's finally feeling the 2nd day lag. I haul out of bed to fix traditional Easter fruit crepes and by the time we get to point of eating, it's 1 pm. Ugh....! We were going to see the week-long ending procession of Semana Santa in Marbella, but the sun is shining brightly and we turn to the pool & beach. Quite busy w/ newly arrived families and few rowdy groups of mostly American & Brit travelers, but great scene and we all lay out. Girls and I walk down the beach and check out menus at several nice restaurants perched on the shoreline. Again..the water is uninviting and cold. It looks churned up and not as clear as pictures of the area/resorts. Very rocky waterline as well, and judging by some of the trash strewn up & down the beach, don't trust going in where we can't see our feet.   Strange to see some N. African purse/jewelry merchants sitting on beach chairs and not hustling. They must take the day off as well.

We all get some good color and change in the room to go out for dinner. We select Puerto Banus and find it very lively and colorful w/ all stores open on the harbor front Promenade.   They are Gucci, Fendi, Jimmy Choo, Ferragamo,so mostly we windowshop. Yachts a-plenty around the harbor in the 200 ft up variety..like with helicoptors. Explains it. Some of us want seafood and some Italian,so we end up at Leone's w/ Pizza de gambas, Fettucini Vongole and Ashleigh gets a steak.   First shock of the Euro exchange where a couple of pizzas and pastas with one main entree runs us $200 US. It was the 6 cokes and Nesteas the girls had at $7 apiece thats really painful.  
We end with some gelato that is "ok". Nothing compares to Italy. It displays nice but all commercial brands and they don't give mixed flavors and skimp on scoops.   Temperature dropped 25 degrees F from the daytime,so we bundle up and drive back 20 minutes to Marbella for bed and next day's fun. No sure where we are going next.