Dominican Republic

We just got back from an amazing 8 day/7 night trip to the Dominican. We were at an all-inclusive resort on Punta Cana beach where we sipped frozen drinks on the beach, played in the sand, swam in the ocean & at the pool & ate delicious food. The beaches had beautiful white sand & the ocean water was so clear! A storm had just blown through & so we had fun seaweed to play with on the beach. So relaxing & fun!

The first day was the only day Bran got to build a sandcastle because Savannah quickly learned how fun it was to smash what he was building : )

Yummy soft-serve ice-cream!

Attempting chop-sticks at the Asian restaurant.

The frozen lemonade quickly became her "usual".

We took a morning trip to a cigar factory to see how they were made.

And sample some.

Savh quickly made friends with these sweet kiddos from Spain on the bus ride.

Laying out on the beach.

One day the beach wore her out so much that she actually fell asleep in the middle of lunch while she was eating! Henry (our favorite waiter) wanted to take a picture with her.

She loved the foot-long breadsticks at the Italian restaurant.

We took an excursion out on a boat to snorkel & swim with sharks & stingrays.

Yes, Savannah went snorkeling too! She didn't exactly love the lifejacket though.

It was so funny because we chose to go with the "advanced" group & I don't think they realized she was going with us. We tried to sneak her passed everyone & when we were already a ways away from the boat, we could hear them yelling "bambina" & "nina" to each other on the boat. Our little fish did just fine though! After our snorkeling, we went through a marine park that was on the reef that had two sections. The sting rays were in the second section and to get to that we had to swim through a section with huge nurse sharks. I know they are the most calm of all sharks, but they are still sharks and these things were at least 6 feet!!! Fun stuff. I wonder how Savh would have felt if she knew what was swimming below her?!

If you look closely, you can see all of the fish swimming around them.


We had a jacuzzi on our balcony that Savh loved taking her baths in.

And then she loved snuggling in bed & watching Spanish cartoons while we got ready for dinner.

She loved the beach & especially loved running back & forth with the tide.

None of the other runners looked near as good in their bikinis on the beach : )

They did zumba on the beach every morning & the latin music just called to her! She didn't hesitate to join in the dancing!

A beach vacation isn't complete without drinking from a pineapple!

She loved the fancy appetizers at the Italian restaurant & the server even brought her her own.

This little girl was seriously swimming in the pool. Everyone knew her around the resort as the "swimming baby".

You'll notice she is about to jump in even though no one is there to catch her.

She would just swim back to Daddy!

And she loved ordering her frozen lemonade at the swim-up bar.

If you look carefully you can see her melted ice-cream covering her body (& mine).

One night they had a circus show & she saw this clown walking around before dinner. The entire meal she was saying "clown, clown, clown" & pointing to the door she saw him leave through. She was so excited to get to meet him later!

There was lots of seaweed from the storm that had recently come through.

She loved the crab that was in one of the shells that I found.

These two got SO sandy playing on the beach!!

The last night we wanted to get pics with the sun setting, but it was pretty cloudy & windy.

She loved these little statues around the resort.

No surprise: she LOVED the Michael Jackson show on the last night.

There was a little incident where she was "galloping" down the sidewalk & busted her lip open : (

It didn't seem to slow this girl down for long though!

She continued to get more & more comfortable out in the waves!

Saying "bye-bye" to the beach & the ocean.

Holding on to her passport tightly.

She loves to point out planes in the sky & it was really neat that you walk right out to your plane at this airport & so she could actually see that we were boarding a plane.