Both body and brain is still on vacation I think. Been so tired since we came back. We need another vacation to recover from our vacation, haha. Why is it always like that?
We had a great long weekend in Dominican Republic. So nice to get away from New York sometimes, and in this case it was a perfect escape for my birthday. I wished for palm trees and I got a lot of them. Perfect birthday celebration. My hubby knows how to spoil me ♥
By recommendations from friends, we decided to fly to Puerto Plata and then stay at a hotel in Cabarete on the east coast. When we first came to the airport they asked us to pay to enter the country. I’ve never experienced this before, and neither has Jim. So already from the very beginning we understood how poor this country is. And you do notice it a lot and it didn’t feel like the safest place to be. But it’s good to go to places like this too. Not a lot of culture there, but we still got a good sense of the country.
Before we went there I was told to eat at one of the restaurants by the beach, order mojitos and then go out dancing at night. Since we had decided on all inclusive for this short trip, we didn’t feel like spending time and money to walk on the beach to find something safe and good. And we like to get up early in the morning to enjoy the hours of sun so after 8pm when it was dark, we were kinda ready to go to bed haha. I’m sure my friends experience in DR is a lot different since they travel with dominicans who knows where to go. We stayed at the hotel area for most of our trip except for on my birthday when we had a full day of adventures. If we had stayed for a full week or more, I’m sure our experience would have been different. But, I’m very pleased with our trip.