We packed it in at the Villa in Cabarete this morning in preparation for our private car drive to Santo Domingo. Justin James came and picked up our rental car this morning and the private car was scheduled for 10am. The AirBnB hosts showed up at 9:45 to check out out. A brand new 12 passenger Toyota van showed up for our ride, how sweet. We loaded our way over packed suitcases and my kite board bag in the van. I will certainly not pack so much next time. We have like 5 bags which at least 3 are 50lbs each. Way to much stuff. It was a nice drive over the mountain on a very curvy road. Looked like the road had been repaved in the last year or two and was actually very nice. It was about a 4 hour drive from Cabarete to Santo Domingo and we hit some pretty intense traffic in some towns we went through. The lines on the roads and traffic lights for that matter are "Suggestions" as many don't follow or stay in their lane. We got to our hotel around 2:30pm and met up with Ilsa, Yolanda's cousin for dinner at Boga Boga. It was a nice restaurant, with white cloth napkins and table coverings and servers all wearing suits. I had pork chops, Yoli had fish, Ilsa had what looked like bean soup with blood sausage. We finished it off with brownie cake and a chocolate mousse. Ilsa lives just around the corner, so Yoli and Ilsa took their dog "Banana" for a walk and we called it a night at the Plaza Florida Hotel downtown Santo Domingo.
