Water Polo, Snorkeling, Sun and Fun!

Ah... yesterday was another glorious day here in paradise! Such a blasty! Let's see, we got up to breakfast in bed (omelets, fresh fruit and bread) and hit the pool immediately. The sun was REALLY intense, most intense yet, so we put on lots of 30 and then Austin went to go play water polo! So fun to see the guys in those ridiculous hats! His team won - good times! Then we rested a bit more in the cabana, split a small margarita pizza and walked down the beach to go snorkel! We grabbed some bread, rented our equipment and hit the water! There were SO many fish - loved it! After snorkeling we hopped in the pool and met this hilarious couple from NY - Dan and Tara! Austin & Dan were both finance guys with similar backgrounds and me and Tara are both communications backgrounds - although I'm OBSESSED with the fact that she has been working at Macy's corporate in Manhattan - I'd LOVE to be that closely associated with my mothership!! We chatted with them, played swim-up bar bingo then went up to shower and get ready for dinner at the Itlalian restaurant! It was yummy - Austin had calamari, caprese salad and lobster lasagna, I had caperse salad and spinach ravioli- GREAT! Then we called it an early night - no shows, no bars just CHILL time! Here's some pics from yesterday!!

Loving the trees here - so pretty to me!

Close up of the trunk and view!

Little chef guys take you fruit skewers on the beach and at the pool - love it! Although I prefer the 'cold towel' guy!

The view to the left of our place of the Bavaro Hotel!

Love the water - there is a 'seaweed issue' but there are peeps out there all the time with rakes and wheelbarrows keeping it away!

Spent a lot of time in this one in particular - love it!

Austin! (and some pretty grounds)

Me (and some pretty grounds) :)

The flamingos - there are areas all over the hotel where they just kinda chill out. I'm fascinated!

Austin playing water polo! LOL

The teams regrouping to discuss rules

Austin and his opponent, Ted, enjoying a during-break beer! LOL at those crazy hats!

Austin said "it looks like i'm wearing a bra on my head in this pic!"

So ends another day!! I'm off to the gym - didn't make it yesterday!! Then I think wind sailing?? Not sure yet!! I hope you're all having fabulous weekends! I was able to do a bit of blog reading last night - sounds like all is wonderful in blog world!!

I noticed I had a few questions in the last couple of posts - i'll make sure I get to those tomorrow!!!

P.S. Never play bingo at a resort... it takes 3 minutes to do each number as each one is read in about 15 different languages. Then she's like "NEXT NUMBER" and yells THAT in 15 different languages. It's honestly quite painful. :)