Sunday Funday

Hello! Just sharing a list of Sunday (& Saturday) fun from the past month. Here is a mini-review of recent weekend events, boiled down to a few words and a lot of photos. This is what happens here sometimes:

1. Mark Twain literature comes to life.

My host dad was painting one day and it was so fun that everyone wanted in. (Tom Sawyer reference here). Even a neighbor from down the road joined. Don’t believe that it was fun? Well, this impromptu painting party happened at midday, in the 12 noon sun - in general, hardly anyone works at this hour, let alone wants to work outside in the sun. Pretty strange! And thus - the power of the Tom Sawyer effect, captured in pictures:

neighbor came by, told us we were doing it wrong, and took over. haha 

2. Weekend getaway to the States! 

Lucky that the DR is close enough for this sort of thing. I took a trip home one weekend! (& cue Kanye here: “Welcome to the Good Liii-iife!”). Some pictures from the visit:

Actually, no. Not at all. That is the Santo Domingo IKEA, friends. (hint: price tags everywhere). Still a good time, though!

3. Quality barrio time.

Weekends with Dominican family and friends.

 

 

serving up habichuelas con dulce

4. Neighbor celebrates his 80-something-th birthday. Yay!

Don’t know exactly how old, but I do remember that he’s in his 80’s. Although, at the party he kept telling me he was 28. So bueno, one of the two. 

5. A lot of walking. Claro.

...& taking pictures along the way. Only here in-country for about another 15 months (yikes, time's flying!), and you can never have enough pictures. The following are from a road next to my house.

XO