Lifestyles of the Missy and Famous

On our last morning in the Dominican Republic we tried a new breakfast setting. If we ever go back I hope we have breakfast there every morning.  You can chose to get your food at the giant buffet but then take it into one of the restaurants to eat.  We had wanted to try eating at the French place (Bordeaux) but ran out of time. So we took our breakfasts in to check it out.  It was lovely.  With the tropical garden behind and light blue and gold before and the AC blasting, this place had it all. It was quiet and had great accents.  I particularly loved my robins egg coffee mug. I’m a huge fan of blue cups and this one had great proportion and feel. 5 stars to the cup! David has landed solidly on his go to breakfast. It is guava paste on oatmeal, a variety of random fruits and a yogurt. Each morning he tried a different juice. On breakfast one he stuck with me and the pineapple juice as the good Lord intended. Then he went off the ranch.  Breakfast two saw h...

  As this year’s theme is tropical fruity beverages and we are in the tropics the time has come to get serious about our goals.  Today we compiled a list and followed through.  All that is to say it was try-lots-of-drinks day.  Above is the drink of the day for David (Sweet Devil) and a sparkling lemonade for me.  We were in and out a lot today, feeling our impending departure and wanting to fit things in.  Every time I went outside my glasses fogged up from the AC-to-tropical heat transition.  We did my tattoo photo shoot, with great light, and sent images off to both the designer and tattoo artist .  We, of course, went to the giant buffet for breakfast.  We even discovered that there is a coffee of the day.  Today it was Carmel Crunch Frappuccino. But our real pursuit was the tropical fruity beverage.  I had a couple of lists with names like Top Ten Essential Tropical Cocktails and we had the bar menus so we just started workin...

This picture, taken on the walk to breakfast, represents the entirety of my exploration and history finding for the day.  This is a sugarcane grinder. If you read my Hawaii blog you will have seen a compact and modern version at work.  In the very early 1500s (1507) the first one of these was constructed here on Spanish Hispaniola.  What is now the Dominican Republic was in fact the beginning of all our Western American history. This is the place you hear about as a kid. In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue to here. The first New World town? Here. The first cathedral? Here. The first a ton of things.  This all sort of glosses over the fact that there were already people and towns and places of worship here to begin with.   This sugarcane grinder has behind it some heady and complex history and by 1507 it was in full swing.  If you like history even a little give the Wikipedia article a glance and you will see what I mean.  This is all by the way st...