Back to Reality!

We had such an amazing vacation. This was the view from our room. I loved this place! I laid on the beach everyday and read 5 books! It was Heaven! Scott became Scuba certified while I did nothing! Beautiful beaches and country side and great people. It is definetly so much poorer then Mexico. 34 peso's to the dollar instead of 10 like Mexico. It was Holy week while we were there so the kids were out of school and they were everywhere waving but never begging(like Mexico) just excited to see you. We went into a Dominican home which was the size of my kitchen(the whole house) and they are so happy and live so humble. I can see why missionaries love to serve in these countries. There are so many humble good people. We loved our servers in the buffets who knew us because all we drank was bottled water and Pepsi!

Now for the only 2 negatives about our trip..well ok actually 3. First and the worst...the resort was almost entirely european vacationing, no Americans anywhere....it was cool to hear all the languages and even talk to some from...Germany, Austria, France, Russia, England...but...despite the cool language they sunbath in a very unique way... they prefer only wearing bottoms and from the looks of it they haven't ever supported the sisters on top. If you know what I mean. Think brown, leather, down to the waist. So interesting...different culture i guess? By the end of the trip we had become somewhat desensitized to the sisters jogging down the beach(seriously) but couldn't get out of our head that its still wrong! The men also ONLY wear speedo's and the funniest is the last day we had a guy next to us that was laying out on is stomach and put his speedo up his bum cheeks like a thong so he could tan his bum! Seriously...so gross! I couldn't look at him or I would crack up laughing!
Second were all the Chain Smokers! We are in this beautiful place, laying on the beach and the trails of smoke are everywhere! Do they have a high rate of lung disease or cancer? I would be so curious to know!
Third, you have to be so careful what you eat and drink...they tell you to not even let water from the shower in your mouth and you brush with bottled water too. Well despite all this Scott got sick and it was not fun! He spent alot of time on the toilet for 3 days and even when we got home! I loved the food! I had fresh fruit everyday and thats the part I miss the most!