We arrived, and just about everything has gone wrong since then. Our luggage has completely disappeared (tough news in the era of no-liquids-on-the-plane) and we ran into trouble with our car rental. It was a Seinfeldian take-the-reservation/hold-the-reservation problem: all our paperwork was ready to go, but when we got to the lot, there were no cars. Eventually they showed up with two of the model we rented, but one had a dangerously broken passenger seat-- and the other they gave to someone else. So we're driving around in a tiny, rough-riding Jeep until they figure out something else. We're basically just sitting in our hotel room (we don't get into the house until tomorrow) waiting for someone to call us about our clothes or our car.
But it is lovely here!