Talk about a long day. We leave St. George yesterday at 9:00PM to catcha 12:40AM flight. We get to Las Vegas 2.5 hours before our flight but miss the turn for the Economy parking and have to circle around. While we are doing this, we decided to take a bathroom break at a McDonalds. By the time we get back to the car have under 2 hours until our flight-the car won't start! Click, click, click is all we hear. After what seemed like an eternity the car finally started and we head to the economy parking lot. This time we found the right turn, sigh. There was a shuttle vehicle there and he pointed to a spot for us to park, grabbed our luggage and we were off. By the time we checked in and got to the gate there was under an hour until our departure time. The first leg of the flight got us to Dallas/Fort Worth Texas. We got there at 5AM. Our connecting flight had a departure time of 5:45AM and the gate was a ways away. We got there just in time to board! Next is Miami. We get there late and had to walk about a mile to our gate, 15 minutes at a fast walking pace. We immediately try to board, but Morena was stopped because she looked suspicious... Just kidding. They did some random carry on thing and made her check her carry on. They also told her she couldn't get anything out of the bag. Well when we got on the plane Morena realized that all her meds were in that bag, so she talked to the pilot and got them to allow her to get her meds. They also brought her bag on the plane so we didn't need to check it in after all. The flight left late. We flew over the Carribbean seeing a lot of islands along the way. We landed in the Dominican Republic about 20 minutes late. We cleared customs and looked for the representative from the tour company. Well, we had some guy try to lead us away but the lady from the tour group saw us and started yelling, Hey, this way! So the guy circled around and brought us to her. She was kind of a confusing person but we evetually got our ride to the resort. By now we were starving because we had no time in between flights to stop and get a drink of water let alone food. At the resort we were waiting to check in but this kids in front of us were taking forever! Then after about 10 minutes a lady came and had me come over to a desk to check us in. We were thankful becuase that other group went on and on. She asked how things were and I said good except we were hungry because everything was so rushed we didn't have time to eat. She stopped, put these pink bands on our wrists and said "go eat and we will finish this after." So we did. The food was very good especially the fruit and especially the pineapple. WOW! Morena took a bite and exhaled and said wow! this is better than... You fill in rest. : ) Needless to say the fresh fruit was great! After the meal we finished checking in, went to our room and crashed for 4 hours. The room was nice and cold-a heavenly break from the hot moisture. We woke up showered and went out for dinner. You can see what we had in the photos. It was all excellent. Some guys came in and seranaded us while we were eating. It was a romantic event to start off our paradise vacation. Then we found out that internet is free in the lobby- if you have your own laptop, which we do. Halleluja! How sweet is that. So here we are filling you in. We will do this most nights, maybe.
