We spent the mornings at the main town beach, walked back to the hotel for a nap, then played around in the sandy tidal pools by the hotel in the afternoon. The hotel's beach wasn't swimmable, but it was actually perfect since Creston and Ivy aren't ready to really swim in the ocean yet. Here's the scene:
In the evening we walked back to the town center and ate dinner on the beach.
Cabarete, Dominican Republic, is famous for windsurfing, surfing and kiteboarding, so all of that was a real theme of the trip. Every afternoon the ocean was full (100 maybe?) of sails and kites. Surfing happened further down the beach and we didn't see it until our last day, but Creston and Ivy still got into it. Here are their sand surfboards. Nice form, little dude.
Paddle, paddle, paddle.
And then we went to the Master of the Ocean tournament and saw some real surfing and actual surfboards.
In the Dominican Republic, people just take your babies from you and walk away like it's no big deal. It's great. Actually, I think that happens in a lot of countries that are not the US. This young lady was a real fan of our twins.
This is at our hotel - it had great meandering paths, beautiful stone walls, and beautiful flowers. We spent a lot of time just wandering.
One of the security guards at the hotel had a couple of chihuahuas that Creston and Ivy liked to walk.
The hotel didn't have a bathtub, and we had extremely sandy babies, so this was the best solution. All parties enjoyed the set-up.
Ivy's into yoga.
And there you have it. The trip was as great as the pictures make it seem. And Creston and Ivy turn TWO in a few weeks. Unbelievable.
