Thursdays with Morrie

There is a small lizard who lives in my bathroom. I like him. I get nervous about spiders, bugs and snakes, but lizards are A-O-K by me. He has a lively little tail he curls and thrashes and I have named him Morrie, since I first got to know him while taking a bath on Thursday. Thursdays with Morrie.

I don't want to write too much about the inauguration of the golf course; that's what I'm covering here in Punta Cana, so that'll be on one of them other blogs for whom I write. I did get to meet the president of the Dominican Republic. He was cordial and charismatic, as one might expect. He looks you in the eye. He is followed constantly by men with enormous guns.

After the inauguration, the golfers golfed and the rest of us (many of the twenty-two of us don't golf, thank goodness) went to the beach. Unfortunately, it was cloudy, but it was soooo pretty. Shallow. I found a big conch shell. I left it there. Also, we ate at Playa Blanco, which I highly recommend. It was so beautiful there and the ceviche was divine.

I love ceviche with all my heart. They serve a lot of it here, and fresh conch salad, too. Those are really the only two things I want when I'm down here. Caribbean food win.

So, it was a day of relaxation and almost riding a Segway. There are Segway tours, but the guide was gone. Oh well. We went swimming in a natural spring (below).

Dinner was at La Cana clubhouse (top photo) and again, the food was delicious. Afterward, everything closed pretty quickly so a few of us went and partied in someone's villa. We drank wine from Kansas (a journalist brought it from his hometown) and Dominican rum -- which, due to my Barbados trip, I now prefer to drink with just water. It's like I'm growing up.

Conclusion: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic is great for food and lizards.