food and beach

I mean, what else is there really?!

So, the last post was from Thursday and today is Wednesday... It is so hard to remember what all has gone on when I don't have pictures! In short, I got back from the capital on Friday and that afternoon Ashley, Kendall, and I went to the beach.

The weather has been acting crazy, and it began to rain an hour or so after we got there. Fortunately we stayed under the covering of Villa Taina (a hotel but also has a bar/restaurant right on the beach) talking and visiting and reading, so there was no need to move. We had a great time, even though we never did get any sun.

Saturday went to the grocery store in Puerto Plata to get some things and use the internet, and when we got back had lunch at the neighbor's house. Gloria lives across the street from the girls and she made rice and beans and chicken and had boiled carrots and broccoli and some other vegetable that I can never remember the name of in Spanish and haven't a clue what it is in English because I never saw it before the DR. Anyway, gotta love Dominican hospitality!

With the groceries that I picked up, we made dinner at Maria's house. Rubia made guandules con coco and bacalao con papas and plantanos fritos (rice and lentils made with coconut milk and some sort of dried fish with potatoes in a tomato sause and fried sweet plantains). So good.