Sitting on our balcony and listening to the lively laughter of the parties happening down the street. Right now it is lightly raining and there is the hum of motorbikes running up & down the streets. There are also planes regularly coming & going in the distance. Oh, that motorbike wsn't humming, but revving!
On that note, Larry & I had a supper invitation from a family on the other side of town last night. We didn't have a car and it would be too dark to walk the 25 minutes through the beach area (not safe). So we found what seemed to be a reasonable motoconcho (125cc motorbike taxi) who then took the both of us with him. What a ride, with the dirver basically sitting on my lap (Pearl) and Larry sitting on the steel bar behind the seat.(mostly) Had a fun family time with chuleta (browned pork chops), fried onion and deep fried platano on the menu. yummy!
This is a family whose daughter we are supporting in university. She is studying to become a doctor. SO, to return home at 9:30, the host & his wife came up the stone stairs to the main road and flagged down a meandering motoconcho (someone they were somewhat familiar with). The only downside we noticed as we hopped on was that the bike had no rear lights. A little scarey when we hit the highway (3km ride back), but not unusual here.

Would love to post pictures but the system is not co-operating. Can someone help me out here?
Whenever I upload a picture it shows up on the blog as gobbledy-gook script. Is there a setting that needs changing, or...?

We went to the next town, Cabarete, this afternoon taking Maury with us, with the intention of enjoying the beach. We had a period of sunshime before leaving but it was pouring rain by the time we got there. We ended up having a good time, browsing and then having coffee/smoothies at an open air restaurant (had a roof and we kept dry!).

Chat again soon.