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The day trip out of the resort on Thursday was very eye-opening. We drove through the richest area of the Puerta Plata, saw some fancy houses and the "white house", shown here.
Then we went to visit a church. It was a religious holiday, so there were lots of people there.
We got back on the bus and headed down the street to a little shop. Inside, we were rushed to the very back and closed in a room. Here, a man demonstrated how to roll a cigar, and let anyone who wanted to try do it as well. Of course, Paul was up first.
Next, we headed to a "castle", where there were wars fought, back in the day. Obviously, I was listening much when the tour guide was explaining this to us, but either way I got some good pictures here. It was just something Paul and I had never seen before - and we loved it.
A view from inside:
I love this picture:
We went to the amber museum and to lunch afterwards, then straight to Sousua Beach. There, Paul managed to get a beautiful jewlery box and a unique photo album, both for $22 US. We walked down the beach, got soaked from the massive waves coming to the shore and got hassled to rent beach chairs for $3 US.
We kept walking, didn't stop to use the washroom (even though I had to pee, bad) because, yeah, they wanted us to pay for that as well. Back on the bus, we headed to the supermarket, where we picked up six bags of Dominican coffee (for uber cheap) and a bottle of Brugal rum, which we brought back for Paul's dad. Then, we were on our way back to the resort.
Friday was for relaxing (not like the rest of the week wasn't, right?). We spent almost all of the morning and afternoon in the ocean. It was the perfect way to end our trip. In the evening, we played mini-putt again, rode the bikes around the resort, and attempted to play tennis (well, Paul and Christoff did). We went to bed early (booo) because we had to be up and out of our rooms by 6:45am.
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