PART FOUR

 a refreshing swim

 fine dining  in a french restaurant

waiting for the bus to take us to the airport

PART THREE

 a typical looking house...lots of color

 our tour buses when we took off for the day..glad they were opened air and it was hot

one of our buses following a truck as you can see it is loaded for beear..like the old fashioned peddlers..it had about everything you can imagine tied to it..mops--brooms--just sstuff...

PART TWO

most days it was hot and humid rain every afternoon but it didn't last long while we were there...have heard after we got home that a tropical storm was expected and they were to get over 10 inches..maybe then we would have had to swim back...spent alot of time at the pool and the beach...reading and relaxing...

everyday there was plenty of planned activities goiing on from zumba---water exercise---bingo (lar's favorite ahahhaha)---spanish classes--volleyball both in the pool and on the beach....several swim up bars (never did that)...lots of good food to eat...

PART TWO

most day it was hot and humid so we spent alot of time in the pool or beach...there was plaenty of activities going on all day from exercise classes both on land and water---volleyball pool and beach---spanish lessons--you would only be bored if you wanted to be...plenty of stuff going on including a couple of swim up bars (which we never did)..

 there's even mountains in the  Dominican Republic ahhaah

 cigar making  if my dad was alive i might have bought him one

a young boy on his horse carrying a chicken

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

we have returned from the dominican republic in one piece..amen to that...had a great time saw lots did even more ...also had time for some r & r...we visited a school and we were told ahead of time if we wantd to bring school supplies with us to give when we visited we could..so we did...the school then will share the supplies with the whole school as we just visited one classroom...

then off we went to a coffee--cocoa farm and hearda all about how to grow the products..it is a big enough farm that it also grown lots of fruit and it interesting to see how it grows..

 our welcome to the resort

 the school we were told it was a  fourth grade and the kids DO NOT  have to go to school but encouraged to go

also to a sugar cane factory..tasted some raw cane

WILDLIFE

this morning (monday) we came home from working out and in the back yard was this buck...we looked at it and it looked strange ..so we quietly came into the house to get a pair of  binoculars to see if we could really check out the horns...sure enough it is a different lookin gset of horns...a four pt but  one if much higher than the other...we even talked to it so it would turn it's head for a better picture..we watched it for way over a half  hour..now we  are waiting to see a bear...will let you know when we do

ALL DONE

friday morning lar gets up at 4 am to get himself ready to go out to the wood for his taking his gun for a walk in the woods...i do get to sleep in a wee bit longer ahahahso he comes back in around 9 or so and i am doing some e-mail...he say to me i am thru turkey hunting this year..the way he looked it was like something happened so i of course asked what happened...so he gives me 2 spent shots gun shells...i look at his strange and he says...it is a long story..not surprised as it usually is a liong story,,

it seems as thou he got 2 with one shot and 1 with a single...so now the fall turkey season is over for hime this year...oh he probally with go out with roy or tyler if they want to go..but there is turkey in the freezer...

FALL'S 1ST TURKEY

the fall turkey season opened up on the first of oct...you of course know who was out there bright and early monday morning...along with our friend roy...no turkeys they just had a good walk in the woods...nothing the second or third days either but this morning...lar was alone and he had turkey all around him..flying from the trees and running around in the field in front of him...so it was a successful morning...

we have been back to visit his mom who fell again on sun day morning...nothing serious but needed an x-ray which didn't show anything new..she has been to the dr's and was told that the break is healing ok but will need to stay in rehab at least another 3 weeks..so now medicare/mediaid  (which ever one it is) needs to do and reval...but my guess if the dr orders another 3 weeks they will go along with it...she keeps saying don't get old you won't like it...and maybe she is right...