Hello Spring!

Last Saturday, the weather was absolutely beautiful, we got up early, ran the trail in our nearby Van Cortlandt Park.  Wobbled back home lol then showered and got dressed to go to brunch at Cafecito in lower Manhattan. After brunch we decided to go to Brooklyn, the "hippy" side of BK aka Williamsburg (the North Side), it's actually one of my favorite parts but sometimes it gets overwhelming =/  On our way there, traffic was ridiculous so naturally I took pictures of my favorite bridge and my favorite guy ;D
We decided to hit up the thrift store, Buffalo Exchange which is usually a hit or miss every time we come here, this time it was a miss but I can't go to BE without grabbing an item or two. I ended up with two dresses for the Spring & Summer. After BE, we walked down to Bedford Avenue where all the "hotspots" are lol we visited all the other stores but they're always so overpriced.  We checked out the street vendors too but nothing really caught my attention so we finally decided to grab an early dinner at The Meatball Shop which I have been dying to go to so yay, I can finally cross that of my "To Do" list on foursquare LOL.
BTW, it's May already, we're already half way done with 2013 GEEZZZZ!  It's crunch time for with papers & course projects due. EEEEEEKKKK -_- 

Looking and feeling like an 18 year old wearing shorts & sneakers lol

Off to Brunch :D

Cafecito's French Toast NOM NOM NOM!

He always order the good stuff UGH, those pancakes were delicious!

NOOOOO... don't eat my favorite bridge HAHA! I love BK Bridge

LOLOLOLLL!

NOM NOM! 

Dominican Republic; Day 3, 4, 5 & 6

Since I have too many pictures and it will pretty much be redundant, here are days 3, 4, 5 & 6 all in one post. We basically just relaxed by the pool, ate, drank, tanned, napped and repeat until the day we left. Yup, that about sums it all up. We had a lot of fun, met new people, laughed so much and of course we celebrated one of his accomplishments. ;D
Overall, Dominican Republic is a beautiful island, we will definitely come back.

he caught me playing in the water :D

Coconuts galore

that's all folks! until our next vacation ;)

Day Two: More Pictures

As promised here are more pictures from day two, this time pictures taken with my phone. ENJOY!

Palm Trees galore <3 p="">

I was just taking it all in and loving it. 

one of the stops of the excursion, swimming with the starfishes & stingrays 

(which I was deathly afraid of) in the natural swimming pool.

my gentleman carrying me so my toes wouldn't get hurt walking on those damn rocks. ;)

Here's a video taken with my phone, I can't stress it enough how much  I love this waterproof case. LOL

Dominican Republic: Day Two

It was a month ago today that we were just in paradise, time flies. Anyways, day two of our trip was simply beautiful, we were excited to leave the resort and visit other islands. On this day we went to Saona Island & Palmilla Beach. This was an all-day excursion, we left the hotel at 7am, our bus picked up other people from other hotels and by 8am, we were off to where the boats to get to the islands were located. It was approximately a two hour ride, bf & I slept so it went by pretty fast lol. When we got to the boats, we were boarded immediately and we were of to the first island, Palmilla Beach.  While on the boat, of course there was drinks and awesome entertainment, that ride was about an hour because we were just cruising and taking in the beautiful open sea. So of course, we drank, danced, sunbathed and repeat until we got to the island. If you plan on going to Dominican Republic, I definitely recommend doing this excursion, you'll have a blast.  Everything from unlimited food & drinks, the boats rides and the bus transportation are all included in this excursion and we only paid $95 per person, I think it was a pretty sweet deal.  What I would suggest bringing is sunblock, bring lots of it as you would be reapplying a lot, trust me, you won't regret it, this was the day we actually got completely burnt and were hurting lol the sun in DR is lethal.  Also bring, water shoes (aqua sox) whatever you want to call it, it's actually needed more at Saona Island because the rocks galore on that beach when you go in the water is serious, I had to have my boyfriend carry me to get in and out of the water. Nevertheless, the islands was so beautiful and relaxing.  Another item to have is definitely a water camera, for most of the trip, I actually used my iphone 5 which had a waterproof case because prior to our trip I didn't really get the chance to purchase a new water camera.  It turned out great because I only spent 80 bucks for the waterproof case and both pictures & videos came out great. Here are some pictures from Day Two, I'll post more pics of day two later this week.

Cruising on the boat, trying not to fall over just to take this picture. HAHA!

my very own postcard photo, taken with my regular camera.

Stay tuned for more pics from day two. ;)

Dominican Republic; Day One

The boyfriend and I actually arrived Sunday night (3/24) and we were pretty much exhausted because we didn't get sleep the night before so our first night, after drinking our first Presidente we were in bed by midnight. 

DAY ONE (3/25) : Naturally every time I go on vacation, I'm always up by the crack of dawn ready to do absolutely nothing HA! But honestly, who would want to sleep in and not want to enjoy the beautiful weather? We had breakfast, walked around the resort while waiting for the gym to open, worked out, had our post-workout meal and then by 10am we were laying on the beach chairs with drinks in our hands.  So basically on our agenda the rest of the day was: drink, tan, drink, eat, tan and repeat. We definitely took advantage of the all-inclusive drinks, DUH, that's what you're supposed to do but boy did we pay for it later *oof* 

Yummy Coconut Drinks. 

One of our favorite bartenders who was responsible for our strong ass drinks and for giving us those mamajuana shots which led me to sleep literally under the sun and got burnt. :( But it also led him to a serious hangover the next day LOL.

These pictures pretty much sums up our first day, me, being more of the beach person and him being more of the pool person...we had a swim-up bar so I did not complain not one bit :D