More rain.....

This morning I woke up with a bit more of a sore throat and the "sniffles" than I had on the second day we were here.  It's from the air conditioning in the room, which I'm trying to keep to a minimum but it's still getting to me.  Leanna, who I'm sharing a bed with, says she isn't feeling sick at all, so I think it's just because I'm lying right underneath the vent on the wall where the cold air comes out of.  Lynette told me too this morning that she also has the same thing.  Leanna and I were again so tired this morning.  I forced myself to get up at 9:30am, as Lynette and I had our massage appointments at 11am and I wanted to get breakfast before that.  When Leanna and I were getting ready, our dad came back into the room and said he was going to take Tony's family to the land of "Beyond", for a tour.  I wouldn't have minded going with them (I know, I can't believe I'm saying that), but that was because it would have been a large group of people so I'd have less chance of being singled out in the crowd.  However, I had my massage appointment to go to, and in the meantime, Leanna was going to check out the internet facilities here. 

A picture outside...

Dinnertime

As noted before, the massage was for 60 minutes and was only $23 - a steal!  And the woman who did mine did a really, really good job.  I gave her a $5 tip, which still made it to way cheaper than I would ever get in Vancouver (or Canada for that matter).  After that I went back to the room to meet Leanna.  She had gotten online here at the resort - the internet room is actually just near the massage place.  You have to go first to the hotel front desk to get a login ID and password, after paying $3US for a half hour (or you can have an hour as well) and then you go to the internet room, which is unmanned, and wait for a computer.  I will have to go there later in order to get this blog put online. 

Dominican themed dance show

The day was incredibly dismal and gross today.  It was raining for most of the day and completely clouded over.  The stormy weather that had started last night is still not over!  Yahoo weather said the high today was 23 degrees, which was cold for here, I guess.  I even wore (Capri) pants today, and a cardigan.  We went for lunch at the Mexican restaurant, which is near the ocean, and then went down to the oceanfront to watch the waves.  The huge, stormy waves had made a huge indentation into the sand into the beach so that it had caused about a 3 or 4 foot "wall".  (My dad said they will have to groom it when it gets to be swimming weather again.)  The beach was closed today - a red flag was erected.  It would have been VERY dangerous to go out swimming today! 

Me at the computer terminal in the internet room

Leanna and I went back to the room after that and we slept.  There wasn't nothing else much to do, but I wasn't feeling well either so that's what I preferred to do anyways.  My dad came back later and he napped too.  We went to dinner around 7:30pm and met everyone there.  At the buffet they also have some cooks cooking something special at stations - usually (or always) meat, I believe - and as I was passing by it I took a look.  Bad decision!  My eyes met a dead, charred, roasted PIG on the counter that the guy was cutting from!  It was so disgusting; I screamed.  It was just a small pig, complete with his or her head - Leanna saw it too later and said it looked like Babe.  My dad took a picture of it on my camera but I don't even want to look at it again and I don't think I'll be posting it here - I don't want to glamourize this disgusting image in any way.  There was also stewed goat for dinner, at the buffet, among many other daily varieties of dead animals, but when you see a pig's head and body laying on a counter and being cut out of, that really makes it a lot more real.  I can't believe people were actually eating it - barbarians.  Every living being has the right to live - not just people.  As my t-shirt says that I was wearing yesterday: "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." - quote by Alice Walker

There's the red flag!

After dinner we went to watch the dancing show at 9:45pm.  Tonight's theme was all different traditional music from the Dominican Republic.  Very good!  After that we went to bed - I was tired, still not feeling well.  I hope I feel better tomorrow and I hope that it gets sunny tomorrow (despite the negative weather forecast) because I really want to go swimming again.  On Sunday we are going to Cabarete and Monday Ocean World, so that doesn't give us much time left and today was a waste due to the bad weather.