Friday, 26 October 2012

Brazilian Night

I really didn't know what to expect, I don't think I've every had a Brazilian meal, at least not knowingly.

We were booked in at 6:30 and thankfully the room had air conditioning and believe me when I say it was so, so needed.

We were greeted at the door by Leona, our favourite waitress.

 

Such a lovely girl, we had our starter, lots of tasters, one was a prawn salad which was finger licking good.

The main course was meat skewers, jacket potato, corn on the cob and a tomato based side salad and a gorgeous spicy dressing, they just kept coming around with the meat skewers, pork, chicken, beef, sirloin lamb and prawns, totally delicious.

So onto the sweet, I thought it best that I gave you a visual for this.

The evening was a wonderful success so much so I had to try the hat for myself.

 

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Love you Daddy

I thought this was quite apt as it will be my own Dads memorial on 29th and I miss him so very much.

Love you Daddy is by Mo’s Digital Pencil and every time I look at it I’m reminded of how special Dads are.

love you daddy1

Coloured with Copic markers and prisma pencils

love you daddy2

Ribbon is vintage seam binding from Ribbon Carousel and the papers are The Sweetest Thing

love you daddy3

The crochet flowers came from a friend Ursula aren’t they beautiful?

love you daddy4

Jak Signature

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Puerto Plata Splatter

 
To we have had big storms, so much so that I have come to the conclusion that the Puerto Plata Splatter is the storms they have and not the dicky tummy runs.
Believe me though that the rain storms are a relief when they do come as the heat here is really something else. Even when is does rain it is still beautiful, normally out of our patio you can see the the horizon between the sea and the sky but not today.
 

And yet I still managed to get sunburnt shoulders while shooting archery, oh yes and I won.
I was telling Lauren (daughter) that she would love it here, the children's club is brilliant, we were watching them having fun today.
This is also just out of our patio.
 

 

 

Monday, 22 October 2012

The Art of Towel Folding

We see napkin folding all the time and let's face it, there is some amazing folds.

Our maid here on holiday has her own amazing folding skills and each day we see something new appear.

 

It is always a pleasure to come back to our room and have the surprise of freshly folded towels.

The Cobra

The Bird in the Nest

 

Kissing Swans

The Bride

So nice I got it twice.

Aren't they wonderful?

 

 

Sunday, 21 October 2012

Poolside Light Show

Thursday evening was the light show and it had an amazing atmosphere, all of the tables were set by the poolside for evening dinner and entertainment.
Even some of the hotels guests were roped in to make the evening a success.
This is guests and entertainment staff doing their stuff.
Also a fire eater, better him than me in this heat.

After this fire eating flame blower was the dancers, very clever when you think it was a floating stage.
It went on into the early hours but we left it there, too old or just simply too tired to see it to the end.
And a new towel fold for today.