Saturday, January 31, 2009

Vacation









A week in the Dominican Republic...nice.  

The trip down was less than ideal: 3 am wake up, hour to Albany, connection to Newark, 4 hour flight to the DR where the Puerto Plata airport was closed, diverted to Santo Domingo after on hour of circling, then 8 hours wait, then 5 hour bus ride to villa!  The fam had a great laugh when we finally put our heads on our pillows and, as if on cue, a rooster began to crow from somewhere behind our place.

Gloria, Austin, and I travelled with our great friends Kelly and Chris and their two kids Grace and Nick, and their friend Ann (who watches their kids on occasion).   We stayed in an amazingly nice villa on the ocean in Puerto Plata with a private pool, chef, and all the stuff you could ask for on a tropical island vaca!  Thank You Kelly!

I'm a big skier, so mind you I love the winters in Upstate NY, especially since we have season passes this year and tons of the white stuff....but I must admit the warmth and sun did my soul good and erased any sign of  winter doldrums that may been sneaking up on us this year!  Loads of down time, horses, dolphins, tennis matches, good local rum, great cigars, sunshine, water, happy kids, great friends, lots of laughs, ahhhhh.



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