My parents were sweet enough to drive me to the airport at that ridiculous hour (yeah, they must really love me). Everything at the airport went so smoothly! I had ample time to check in, go through security and chill with a latte, my journal and a pastry while waiting to board. I sat next to the sweetest lady on my first flight! She was so kind and interested in what I am doing and genuinely wished me well! She performs for a Gilbert and Sullivan Society and is in charge of their make-up. So we talked all about theatre and theatre make-up. She also told me all about her daughter...who is, as this small world we live in would have it, a dancer! She works for an organization called Soldier Who Salsa. Soldiers Who Salsa is an organization that bring therapeutic social dance to active and retired members of the US Military! So cool! Their tag line is: Healing our heros, one dance step at a time.
When our flight landed I had just over an hour to get to the gate for my connecting flight. The gate was close by so it was a piece of cake! My second flight was pretty uneventful...I slept...the entire time. Went through Immigration, baggage claim and Customs with no problems. Thank you Lord for such easy travels! Aunt Lori and the boys were there waiting for me after I got through customs (they were the cutest ones there)! We walked out of the airport and the instant I was hit with the sunshine and 85 degree weather the previous ten hours of travel were completely worth it! How wonderful to be outside and not be shivering!
First Observances of Santo Domingo:
1) The weather is gorgeous, this is my kind of climate!
2) People drive like maniacs here
3) The water, the palm trees and the colorful buildings make it a very pretty city.
4) It is hard to communicate with the people here: very few seem interested in trying to understand our broken Spanish....here's hoping what I learned in High School Spanish comes back to me quickly!
We drove back to their apartment and I got the tour and got settled in. It is such a nice apartment...big and spacious with a little balcony (which I intend to spend a lot of time on). Next Aunt Lori and I walked down to the street to the grocery store. Okay...I thought I had pretty good knowledge of different kinds of produce (after all, I did grow up in a vegetarian household)...but there are so many fruits and vegetables here that I have never seen or even heard of. I looked some of them up when I got back to the apartment to figure out which ones I want to try and will definitely be doing some culinary experimenting while I'm here!
Today is a pretty chill day. Uncle Glen is at work. Aunt Lori and the boys are doing school work. I am acclimating myself to the area and just enjoying being warm! Tomorrow we are going to volunteer at a refugee camp...so more on that later. Love to you all and thank you for the prayers for safe travels!
For info on Soldier Who Salsa visit:
http://www.soldierswhosalsa.org/
Cheers!
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