Spent some time at the pool today.  Life is easy here.  Waiting for a weather window.  We had been looking at Tuesday/Wednesday, but the weather we have been getting is not matching the forecast.  The winds have been high both at night and during the day.  We will see what happens. Meanwhile, we will enjoy the resort.

Early start again for Punta Cana.  A great day and again we entertained ideas of keep going on, that is until we hit more rain.  Oh well.  We had a visitor for about an hour.  This poor bird was exhausted and he rested on our boat after one of the storms.     

We decided to spend the night at Punta Cana Marina and get a good idea about the upcoming weather.  The marina is ok.  They tried to stick us in a slip that was way too small for us.  We ended up staying on the fuel dock.  It  isn’t comfortable, as we are getting a surge.  We were going to check out Cap Cana next door until we went into pay for our slip h ere at the Punta Cana Marina.  The price for our catamaran, with electricity and water?  $16.80.   Plus, we have access to the Punta Cana resort, rated one of the top resorts in the world.  Life is good!!!  We may be here awhile.

It just won’t stop raining here.  I am so tired of it.  I am tired of looking at the dirty water. The flies are unbelievably bad here.  I can’t keep them out or kill them fast enough.  Today was the worse.

We haven’t been able to bring our trash up to the dock because of the rain, so three bags have been sitting on the back transom.  Today there was a break in the rain so we decided to take them in.  I wasn’t feeling well to begin with, and it didn’t help when I looked at the dirty water outside our boat and how it was making a brown stain on the transom.  I watched logs, coconuts, plastic bags float pass our boat, and then…. a huge dead frog.  For some reason this just grossed me out. 

“You’re lucky you didn’t see the maggots on the garbage bags!” said Tristan.  Seeing my horrified face he quickly added, “Dad washed them all off.” 

I looked at the bags of garbage that were now in the dingy, waiting for me to sit next to them.   My glamorous life!

We made it to the dock and Dan took the garbage to the trash can.  We needed to find a grocery store to pick up just a few things.  We also went to the internet cafe to check the weather.  I had hoped we would be leaving the next day, but no.  We were trapped here  one more day.   The grocery store we went into had a good supply, but it was dirt floors, and no lights inside.  I just knew a rat was waiting behind a box of cereal.  But no.  We made it out of there unscathed.  Dan wanted to get lunch but I really wasn’t into it.  I was tired of walking in the mud, the heat and the flies. This is really unusual for me.  Normally I have no problem dealing with the worse conditions, taking it in stride, but today I just couldn’t do it.  I was acting like a princess. 

There was a small local cafe Dan wanted to go into, but I just couldn’t.  I wanted to go into the nice cafe in the new area the cruise line had built.  Dan really wanted to eat local.  Here comes the meltdown.  I informed him I was not walking through any more mud, nor sitting outside a dirty street waving off flies.  I was going to the nice cafe with the white tablecloths!!

We went to the nice cafe with the white tablecloths.  It really wasn’t much more expensive than the local place, and it was clean and bright.  I was happy!  Sadly it didn’t last.  I noticed Dan doing something with his foot.  He looked at me sheepishly.

“There’s a maggot in my sandal,” he said in a low voice.  I gasped as it fell out of his shoe and onto  the floor.  The maggot was huge and was making a beeline for my purse.  Could it get worse???  It did.

 “Kill it!”  I hissed.

He stepped on it and it made a big splat on the floor.  I was going to throw up.

“I need to get that picture out of my head!” I said holding my hands over my face.

“Think of ponies!  Think of ponies!” cried Tristan.

We need to get out of here!