Republica Dominicana

Acabamos de volver de las vacaciones en la Republica Dominicana.  We had mucho funo.

Translation.

We just got home from a vacation in the Dominican Republic.  We had a lot of fun (and now i'm on a Spanish kick).

It was for a hearing aid conference that Andy's parents have been inviting us to since Andy started going to school to become an audiologist.  The company chooses a different location for every year, always in February though.

We decided that it was too long of a flight and to short of a trip to take Brayden with us so we left him with my sister in Portland.  I was pretty nervous to leave Brayden behind, but I knew he would be in good hands with my sister and her kids.  So we made the 4 hour drive to Portland Monday night, then Tuesday morning before everyone woke up we sneaked out to head to the airport.  From Portland we flew to Newark and had to overnight there.  We made the best of it and took a train to New York!  This was my first time in New York city and it was an incredible experience.  I felt mostly like a fish out of water.  We walked to Times Square, on our way we got some dinner at an Italian Restaurant.

Inside the Toys R Us store

We were only there for a few hours, but it was everything the movies make it out to be.  People everywhere, loud, high energy, and incredible.  I couldn't imagine living there though.  I'm pretty sure I would be broke in about 2 seconds. haha.  Everywhere I looked there was something that grabbed my attention and convinced me I needed it.  Luckily we were on a time crunch so I didn't buy anything.  One thing that I was not expecting was how stinky it was, haha.  We walked a good 20 blocks from the train station to Times square and back so we were fumigated by car exhaust, 2nd hand smoke, and super stinky sewers.

The next morning we flew to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic into the cutest airport ever.  It had a thatched roof and 3 foot walls.  Luckily we were with a huge group of audiologist so we basically just followed the crowd onto a big bus (they had 4 ready for all of us) that took us to the Hard Rock Resort where we stayed.

The rest of our trip consisted of sleeping in, ordering room service for breakfast (the resort was all inclusive), going to the beach and then consistently eating way too much. Andy had to go to a couple classes too.

The resort was soo big that we had to take a little tram to get to the beach.  This is us sitting and waiting for the tram.

Before a fancy dinner

The sand was so amazing there.  Even softer than the Florida beaches and it had specks of pink in it.

The resort grounds were so pretty

Most of the employee's of the Hard Rock didn't speak English, so we felt pretty cool saying Hola, Buenas Dias, donde estas el bano and la playa!  That's about all I remember from high school Spanish. 

I had a hard time relaxing and letting go until I was able to talk to my sister and hear that Brayden was doing just time and actually having a blast without me and Andy around.  

So we spent 3 and a half days there and then had to fly back Sunday morning.  It was a long flight home, we luckily didn't have to overnight anywhere, but it made for a very long day on a plane.  It was hard coming home back to the cold weather but I was ready to have my baby boy back.  Now we get to look forward to Andy's graduation in Florida in May.