The Sights, Tastes and Textures of Punta Cana and Club Med!

A few more images from around the Club Med Resort.  I hope you enjoy the pictures. 

These beautiful flowers are all over the resort. They grow on these bushes and smell great at night.

I noticed these because of the little orange thingies hanging off the flower connected to these thin, green stem like things except they are thinner than grass.

The bush.

When they dry up they look like this toward the bottom right of this picture.

Once I noticed them, I saw them all over the resort. 

Funny that it took me until Day 6 to even notice them in the first place. 

I had walked by them atleast fifty times over the course of the week.

A view of the beach from across the lawn.

One of the many groups of buildings. We were in the orange one in the bottom right.

The ones with the clothes hanging is our room.
The boys and many of the other kids tend to use the balcony to enter their rooms instead of walking all around the building toward the back.
They would walk through the bushes and climb up to the balcony and jump over. We'd usually leave that door unlocked so that the kids could come and go as they needed to. We kept losing the key cards so this worked just fine.

One of the many walkways!

Notice the stem that grows out of the bush which then allows the flowers to bloom. How cool!

Beauty is everywhere.

Beauty is in the everyday, everywhere all around us. We just need to open our eyes and appreciate it.

An interesting hole in the sand.

Upon closer inspection, I suspected it was burrowed by an insect.

A dead dragonfly? It was missing the other wing.

Not exactly the best picture to transition to after the dead dragonfly ...this lobster almost looks like the other...but it was actually quite delicious!

OMG! These scallops were so yummy! with the pasta topped with a spinach and cheese sauce!!!

Smoked salmon and cavier with grilled onions, on a puff pastry topped with a creamy gravy.

Chicken crusted with almonds and cranberries and potatoes.

Just a combination of the many foods already described.

This was some kind of steak topped with grilled onions and a boiled egg and rice.

This guy had made these really cute monkey dolls out of empty coconuts. Here he was making a hat / bowl with the leaves of a palm tree. And that is the flag of Dominican Republic.

A closer look at the coconut monkeys.

The long and empty passageway that ran by our hotel room.

The close up of the mop hair and the purple bristles were from the broom and mop resting against the wall.

Our living quarters.

This beautiful tree was right in front of our room door. It carpeted the green grass with a thin layer of these beautiful white flowers. Every morning we'd see the landscaping staff sweep up the flowers to keep it clean and tidy. 

Thats it for now! Its sad that although this trip was just a few weeks ago, it already feels like it was many, many years ago.

Love and Light,
From one sufi to another
Anita

Day 6 contd...Aly and Zayn On The Trapeze.

I am unable to upload the videos of the boys on the trapeze so I decided to take photos of them instead.

Aly climbing up the ladder and steps on the platform. Atila is the staff member in the green tshirt. The lady on the platform is probably in her late 50's and was in excellent shape.  

Aly takes off on the bar. Look on the left side of the picture. "Mad Max" the other staff member is the one hanging upside down on the bar on the right side of the picture.

Aly swings all the way to the right and then swings back again to the left.

He pulls his knees towards his chest and tucks them on top of the bar as he hangs upside down on the bar in mid-air.

Aly hangs from behind his knees and stretches out his arms as he swimgs towards Mad Max.

Mad Max and Aly grab each other's hands and Mad max swings him to the right before bringing him back.

Check Aly out on the right side of the picture.

Mad Max swings Aly all the way out...

...and then back toward the left to hopefully catch the bar that he started off on.

But Aly misses and falls slowly on the net. 

ZAYN'S TURN!

Check out the belt around his waist. This is what they all wear so that the safety cables can be attached to it.

Zayn climbs up the ladder to go to the platform

Zayn steps on to the platform with Atila.

Atila attaches the safety cables on to Zayn's waist belt.

Zayn reaches for the bar.

And off he goes as he steps off the platform and swimgs.

Zayn swings up toward Mad Max and then swings back toward the platform and tucks his knees in and positions himself to hang from the bar.

Zayn tucks himself in.

And he starts to swing back toward Mad Max as he is hanging upside down off the bar.

And he reaches toward Mad Max and they grab each other's hands.

Mad Max swimgs him outward toward the right...

before swinging him back toward the platform.

Zayn is hanging toward the right side of the picture.

Zayn misses the bar on the way back and slowly falls on the safety net.

Aly said that he spent about 15 hours on the trapeze during the week at Punta Cana's Club Med Resort.
Zayn started up on the last couple of days. Considering how little time the boys spent on the trapeze, I have to admit that I was totally impressed.

Love and Light
Anita