Adam and I spent a week in the Dominican Republic in January for a dream vacation for our 10th anniversary!! The fact that we were gone during the coldest week in MN all winter (high of -3 actual temperature one day, not to mention the windchill factor!!), made me sooo glad that we were crazy enough to get married in Minnesota in January in the first place...a perk I never thought of all those years ago. We left the kids with Grandpa and Grandma, so they probably ended up as spoiled as we were!
How fun is it to fly to an open air, essentially outdoor airport?
We chose an all-inclusive resort right on the beach with 6 or 7 restaurants, 24-hour room service, three pools, and a great entertainment team with daily and nightly activities. The view of our resort grounds from our room.
Our first excursion was a bus ride from Punta Cana to La Romana, past sugar cane fields (which are still harvested by hand with machetes, and put into carts pulled by oxen), to a boat ride for a snorkeling experience.
We did some open water snorkeling, seeing lots of fish and coral...
..then the boat drove us through the turquoise waters to an island...
...for a barbecue on the beach with native Dominican food and drinks, and a chance to do more snorkeling from the shore.
We found a cool lizard with a blue tail, which we were told is rare to see.
The turn-down service in our room decorated one day with towel sculptures and rose petals for our anniversary
We took advantage of the endless tropical drinks from the swim-up bar
We enjoyed blue skies and palm trees. The temperature was in the 80s every day with lows in the mid 70s at night. Can't beat that!
Our second excursion was an open air bus ride to the mountainous jungle in the middle of the country, where we went ziplining! What an adventure!
We got up early one morning to watch the sun rise. We slept in the rest of the time!
We dressed up for many of our evening dinners, but this is the only night we remembered to take a photo.
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Love this post! Been waiting for it! So glad you got to get away together. For our 10th, we had a baby! Eden was 3 weeks old! Maybe for our 15th... :)
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