We got back from our trip on Saturday around 8pm. That was the longest day of our lives. You'll hear about that later. Yesterday was a bit of running around, we got some groceries, dog food, watched a movie with some friends. We went to bed early because we had to get up early this morning. You'll hear about that later, as well.
Let's rewind ten days. PS. this will be part one of many (there's no way I can write about the whole trip in one post).
Last Friday night began the trip. The limo picked us up from Ashley and Cookie's house at 130am.
The limo bus was crazy fancy, and it got us to the airport in record time. But the bad news was that it was barely 230am when we arrived. Oh, right... our flight was at 6am. We got our boarding passes. We got "breakfast". We sat around, waiting, waiting, waiting. We went through security. Easy-peasy. It was then 330am. We played games on my iPod touch. We tried to sleep. We ate again. Finally, it was 6am, and we got to board our plane.
The plane was big, yet small. It was the "biggest" plane I'd ever been on - it had about 26 rows and six seats in each row. My computer calculator tells me that's 156 seats. But the rows were all squished togeter and though I had plenty of room in my seat, Paul, well, didn't. He had to put his legs into the aisle, he was very uncomfortable... and he complained. Alot. We tried to sleep for most of the four hour flight - I think we each got about two hours of real sleep.
It was about noon by the time we got onto the bus that would take us to the resort. It was just over an hour ride - and quite a ride it was. This is taken from where I was at the back of the bus - Paul was up there at the front by himself.
I had to pee so bad (the washroom in the Dominican airport was not so nice) and the bumpy ride didn't help, at all. The driver was nicknamed "Speedy Gonzales" and that he was. Either the brakes in the bus didn't work, or he didn't believe in using them - either way, it was a scary ride. But amusing, at the same time. The roads are in horrible condition and every passes everyone - they don't believe in slowly down unless absolutely necesary.
Finally we made it to the resort. I ran to the washroom, peed, then Paul and I got in line to check it. It was just after 1pm - our room wouldn't be ready until 3pm. We got our bracelets (I'm actually still wearing mine right now) and we headed to lunch at the buffet restaurant - which became our main source of food for the week.
And then we headed to our rooms. Here's Paul doing fancy stuff with his luggage.
And here's the view from Christoff and Caroyln's balcony.
To be continued... (I have to head to work)
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