We stayed for the weekend again in a condo with this gorgeous tropical garden view from our balcony. Especially when the kites start up, it's amazing.
We love this beach at the edge of Cabarete, right near a kite surfing, trapeze teaching, Spanish language schooling, healthy restaurant hotel. The food's good over at the hotel's beach front cafe and the kites are beautiful in the afternoons. We do have to be careful of kite surfers if we go to the beach late afternoon--they wait to start surfing until the wind really kicks up, and can get pretty close to our swimming children. At that part of the beach, the wind is so hard in the afternoons that it's hard to walk and sand stings your legs and arms.
The great thing about the beach there is that it's so beautiful and isolated. Even the vendors, who are many, in Cabarete, don't come as far as our beach. Just the peanut brittle salesman. And once we saw someone selling lemoncelli, which is like little mini-limes that taste like key lime pies with enormous pits.
Sometimes we swim in the little pool behind the condo, where we're protected from the wind and can relax in the water. We're beginning the second year of our family adventure here in the D.R. (or R.D., as they write it here), and we're praying that it's another good one, with lots of growth and joy in the midst of our challenges.
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