San Francisco, Dominican Republic

Dear All,
WOW OH WOW! Dominican Republic is my type of country. Lots of great street food and dancing. Oh my goodness. Everyone dances 7 days a week here and all night. It is amazing. From Mayaquez I walked 3 miles in 91 degrees weather to the ferry terminal. En route a bird pooped on my head so I decided that was a sign of good luck. While trying to find the sleeping chairs on the Deck 6 of the Ferry I met 2 PR from Springfield, MA Grace home town. THe ONLY punctuation that works on this keyboard is . nothing else works. ok so their friend Magale is a hairdresser adn was visitinig them at their home in PR and invited them for a week to her home in San Francisco DR. Well they invited me along so along I went. I also met another mother and 18 year old daughter from Santa Domingo who invited me to stay with them so...I think I will meet them on Sunday. I am spending a week with Magale, her friends, her two daughters, daughter in law, 3 grandkids and we are eating, drinking, dancing, and touring around the north of the country. Pretty nice of them to include me actually.
Yesterday we had bread and mayo for breakfast with coffee then we went to an aunts house for a HUGE feast of rice and beans and meat and salad and bread pudding and choc cake for dessert. then we drove to Santiego and Moca to look around. The countryside is HUGE mountains with falleys of rice fields, sugar cane fields, banana fields, and people ont he side of the road with woven rugs but they are blankets for horses actually.
When we first arrived we drove aroudn Santa Domingo which is GORGEOUS and huge hotels right on the water. Larimar is a mineral rock that is oNLY mined in DR so I hope to pick up a ring or something. Prices are similar to US so it is not really inexpensive. Well for large ticket items. Yesterday I had designs painted on my toenails for 1.50 US. USDollar 1.00 is equivelent of 34 DR pesos so you need a calculator to figure stuff out plus I can oly count to ten.
Magale{s daughter Doreles is a lawyer AND is a host of a sex education tv show with a doctor who invited me to stay with her for 1 to 3 months to teach her english. i said maybe my mom would be interested so she may come.
ive hardly taken any photos because we were driving around. we ate at a side road restaurant last nite for 860.00 dr or about 25 us dollars we had 2 platters of MEAT JUST MEAT liver, beef and pork with tostadas on the side mashed plaintain fried bits and beer lots of beer El Presidente served in a large bottle for 3.00. it was neat. the meat is on a large platter and you take what you like with your fork and they put lime all over it. it was delicious. best liver i have ever eaten.
ok...we are all yes ALL off to see Magale{s mother in the north rainforest where exactly im not sure. we have a honda crx with 3 in the front seat 4 in the back seat and 3 more in back 7 adults and 43 kids in one car PLUS luggage. i cant wait to see how this works.
stay well oh.........it is 90 degrees and SUNNY SUNNY did I say SUNNY with intermittent rain showers here and there and TROPICAL fruit at your finger tips everywhere.
when i come home we will make tropical fruit frappes.
fruit, sweetened condensed milk, sugar, ice, cinnamon, vanilla. oh my goodness delicious!
muchos besos )many kisses, Georgie
oh oh oh on the ferry hterew were shows. live DR music and dancing and a show like my Mom and I saw in Cuba with all the frilly scantily dressed women. shaking maracas and giving them to men to shake in thea udience while they shook their booties that were bare inside fishnet stalkings and silver sequined gstrings .................wow is right!