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| Our Beach |
We arrived in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on Jan 1 to temperatures in the low to mid 80’s, some blue skies & rain every few days.
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| More of our beach |
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Collins Enjoys the Beach
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The latter is typical for the first half of Jan and then turns to consistent blue skies & gentle breezes. About half of our North American friends were already here when we arrived & the rest arrived over the following 20 days . We celebrated Collins Birthday jan 6 with our friends Joe & Sue. We had planned to eat at our favorite Thai Restaurant. However, it decided to POUR that evening, we got drenched & ended up at another restaurant.
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| Collins, Karen, Joe & Sue |
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| They still had the Christmas Decorations at the Casino |
After that we made our first trip of the season to our favorite casino for a few drinks.
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| Karen & Joe test a drink at the bar |
With most everyone now here, we decided to have a steak cook out at the pool a couple weeks ago, with some 26 attending. This is a great crowd, & although we spend a lot of our time with Sue & Joe Radice, there is continuous interaction amongst all of us. Between going to the beach, pool & restaurants, plus dinner parties at various units, time flies by & we can hardly believe we have already been here almost 6 weeks.
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| Pizza Party |
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| All set for Turkey Dinner |
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Pasta dinner for 13
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| Collins enjoys the pool |
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| Collins takes a nap |
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Our Pool
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Our apartment
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One day we went to a large town, called Higuey, about 40 minutes from here. They have all kinds of stores there. It's very unique. There are all kinds of places that sell meat, just hanging there on the street. There are also a lot of fruit stands.
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Fresh Meat Anyone?
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| Fresh Fruit |
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Our friend Sue from TX arrived a couple weeks ago, she left Friday. It was great having her here. We've been friends since 8th grade. While she was here we had a Turkey Dinner at Joe & Sue's apartment. There were 14 of us. We all brought a dish to pass & Sue made the turkey on their BBQ. No one here has a stove big enough for a turkey. It was delicious & we all had a wonderful time.
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| Joe & Collins |
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| Sue & Collins |
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Sue, Karen & Sue
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| Karen, Collins & Sue |
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We're talking about having a pasta night in the next couple weeks. No one would believe it, but we go out to the Casinos at 9:30 or 10 at night.
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| Hard Rock Casino |
We go over to one of the nice Casinos that is close by, listen to their music & drink their liquor. They serve top shelf stuff & don't care if you gamble or not. It's really fun. Every time we hear the weather report from the US we're very glad we aren't there!!
Today our son Doug arrived. We're looking forward to spending time with him. About every other week we have, each for a week, our 4 kids & their spouses, but only one grandchild. At least for this year it was decided this was to be an adult recharging the battery time. Then before you know it, it will be April 4th & we head back to IL for a few Doctor appointments, see the grand kids. We'll leave for FL on April 19th, at which time we pick up the RV & start this year’s journey up the east coast to as far as Port Edwards Sound, British Colombia. Life is good.
