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First day of Riding!

Tuesday November 22, It's my first day of riding since January last year. 63 cm of new snow overnight, isn't bad for a first day back! Lets go shred some pow!

Toughts about my trip

-All the surfers there were really hot! All tanned and really nice body! :)
-I love surfers
-Surfing...  It's harder to get pass the brake that it is to catch a wave.
-Dominicain food is excelent, cheap and in really big portion.
-Alcohol is soo cheap and the drinks are pretty much half half.
-There no road rules, you can do whatever you want whenever you want..  even being 4 on a moto with no helmet....
-1 week isn't enough.
-Salt water doesn't taste good.
-Brushing your hair???  What is that?
-Wering sandals is not a good idea when you go to the bar...  I lost 2 pairs in a week...
-Fresh fruits = love

Cabarete, Dominicain Republic , November 18, 2011. Day 8

Ouff... waking up this morning was a little ruff... No surfing today, we were suppose to wake up extra early to get a last session but it didn't happen!! I slept in for the first time on this trip, woke up, had a turbo shower, tried to fit everything in my suitcase ( half of my stuff was still wet) , said bye to everyone and left for the airport. I didn't feel like leaving at all, I had such an amazing time here but it was way too quick! Cabarete I will be back!
Our flight to NYC was ok, we got to NY wearing sandals and short but it was so cold there...  didn't took too long that I wanted pants on... there was a huge line up for the taxi at the airport and also a lot of traffic on our way to the bus station, we almost missed our bus...  we arrived just in time... It wouldn't of been fun.
At the border the bus got checked and we had to get out with our luggage, the boarder guys  were asking a lot of question and thought our story was suspicious... so we got our luggage empty out, they looked at all my pictures on my camera, they read my note book they checked every single pockets..  I guess they thought they were gonna find something hey! Not happening!
We got back on the bus and made it back to Canada!

Cabarete, Dominicain Republic , November 17, 2011. Day 7

Best day of the week yet I think!!  Its also our last full day here...  Already! :(  It went by so quick.....
Early surf session, best day in the water for sure. caught some good waves all morning. the waves were perfects. It was also really nice out and there was a rainbow in the sky!!   surfing with the rainbow!!  Wouhouuu!  So beautiful! After surfing, we went for lunch at Picka poyo which is Dominican food with huge servings... 100 pesos for a big plate of rice, poyo, salad & pasta. Yummy! Right after our lunch, Adam from the wake school came to pick us up at the house, were going wake boarding on the magic mushroom river!! So fun, I wake boarded for a little bit, Ann-Ju tried the wake a bit but didn't really liked it so I've got the full hour of riding for myself!!  Awesome! :) for the last half hour, I tried the wake skate for my first time... that was even more fun then the wake board. The river that we were riding on was just by a cow field so we were riding beside cows and pigs.. ha ha  I thought it was pretty cool! Cerveza at la Boca after our riding, I could barely lift my beer up I was already so sore from riding.. haha we also got a coconut and kept it for tonight's drinks! After getting back from our ride, we went to Mojitos for the Happy hour! 2 for 1 Mojitos & pina colada! :) Yumm! Steven, Martha & the swell crew was there, it was fun and the drinks were amazing! We went to Aloha for dinner, once again, it was so delicious. I had meto, a kind of fish who was delicious and also an unlimited buffet. Ann-Julie was starving and got 2 full plates! haha Crazy girl...  Excelent dinner...  on our way back, we stopped at La Rosa to go grab some more booze for tonight..  On the menu for tonight, Rhum & coco! tonight is our last night already so lets enjoy the time we have left! After a couple drinks, we went to Lax for some more drinking and dancing. Drinks+Drinks+dance+Rhum& coke at Blue bar ( = half rhum half coke) +dance...... Once again an unbelievable night with good compagnie! I lost an other pair of sandal tonight tho!!  haha. Got the taxi moto back to our house  and went to bed!

Cabarete, Dominicain Republic , November 16, 2011. Day 6

An other Early morning surf session, The waves were really nice today too, had a really good time in the water.  Later on in the afternoon, we went zip trecking in the Jungle which was really fun and right after that we went and fed monkeys! :) They were so cool!!   I've always wanted to see monkeys so I was really excited to be there! they were jumping all over the place, jumping on us, eating out of our hands playing in our hair...  they even tried to undo Ann-Julie's bathing suit! ha ha I wanted to bring one back with me so bad but we weren't allowed! :(
For dinner tonight, we went to ally's surf camp to eat steak. So far, the best and biggest steak I've ever eaten. It was enormous and so tender, served with the biggest bowl of rice, give me a chance, I couldn't finished up my plate!!  haha
I wanted to nap a bit after we got back from the restaurant but ended up sleeping all night...  well I woke up at 4 am and coulndt go back to bed so I went on the beach a bit  and went and read a book by the ocean and watched the sunrise!

Cabarete, Dominicain Republic , November 15, 2011. Day 5

Today, we went to Puerto Plata for a different activity. We went to "27 water falls" it was so awesome, we walked in some river in the jungle, swam , climbed rocks, jumped off cliffs & slide rocks. We walked up the mountain for about an hour then when we hit the top, we started jumping off and sliding rocks all the way to the bottom, It was a really cool activity and really fun. The 2 girls that were with us gave up after the second water fall to climb so we were just by our self with the guide. They were really funny guys and they helped us all the way up the mountain!! haha. We were right in the jungle, it was so beautiful and we also saw an Iguana. after our hike, we had dinner at the place which was once again delicious. Turbo nap on the drive back to Cabarete, I started feeling my hang over! haha
After being back to Porta del Mare, we decided to go for an afternoon surf session at Encuentro, the waves weren't that good due to the wind that picked up in the afternoon so we didn't stay in the water for too long. We got back to our place and Had a nap in the sun. Getting my tan on! ;)
Had some burger on the BBQ for dinner and some vodka drinks, we stayed home tonight and drank a bit around the pool with Andrew, Steven and Simon.

Cabarete, Dominicain Republic , November 14, 2011. Day 4

An other early surf session, the waves weren't the best this morning tho, so we were only there for about 2 hours. After surfing we went back home to do a bit of snorkeling, took some underwater pictures with the Go-Pro. For the afternoon, we went for a hike in the Jungle, the weather wasn't with us tho! It started poring rain while we were walking in the trails, we came back to the little bar and had a beer while it was raining and kept going after this heavy rain. 2 little Dominicans were following us everywhere so they ended up being our guide. The jungle was beautiful, there was caves everywhere, cool threes and orange mud! We were all orange after our expedition!

Dinner tonight, we went to Lax for burgers and Happy hour Mojitos!!! Best Mojitos ever! Claudia, Sean & Simon met up with us and we had a couple drinks! Tonight is a big night, we went back home to pre drink then went by Swell to go pick up Steven and Martha to go to the Karaoke night!
lots of cerveza tonight, and Mamajuana shooters that killed us, well killed me! haha We also went for a swim in the ocean and the guard were not too stoked on that... I also lost my sandals on the beach... Time to go home! We caught a Taxi Moto back to Porta del mare and sleep time!! It was an amazing day again today!