food baby lady til i'm eighty!

[mace and i showing off our flowers given to us by little dominican boys. look closely, mine's in my vase bun.]

the second half of our week long vacation was spent in cabarete with a group of us girls. cabarete is always a party! it's the kite surfing beach and it's just beyond sosua beach. cabarete's known for its night-life and reeeeally good food. and good shopping. oh, and good kite surfing. but obviously i'm just there for the food :) anyways, we got to cabarete later in the day because of all the traveling. and you better believe we marched our butts straight to mojitos for dinner. mojitos is one of the many restaurants right on the water. it has the best fresh fruit juice, granisado (frozen fruit juice), sandwiches, fries, and of course yummy mojitos (sin alcohol! that means no alcohol.). alllll for supa cheap!

[ohhhh just me, lookin like a silly in public.]

of course right after i finished my dinner, this little old man kept walking around to all the tables with this little boat made out of leaves and who knows what. and he comes over to me because i made eye contact with me and keeps trying to barter with me and get me to buy it for 50 pesos, which is about $1. and of course he's literally the skinniest man in the world and my belly is all full of food. how could i not buy it, just to give him the money?? it was pretty funny after though because i realized the boat smelled like ish and was covered in bugs and i'm like ohhh what have i gotten myself into?! and i swear that man kept hunting me down all weekend trying to get me to buy his little creations. you give a mouse a cookie! i kept asking people if they liked it and wanted it and they kept smiling and saying "esta bien" haha like nahhh, you keep it. i finally gave it to our taxi driver and said "feliz cumpleanos!" haha. 

and after our scream fest because of how nice our place was that we were staying at, we went to bed. and woke up to this:

[meesh the leper]

[we rented the townhouse we stayed at from some guy on vacation. it was the cutest little beach community! it was mostly older americans and canadians, so it was really quiet and relaxing.]

[complete with a huge kitchen that we all talked about baking all of our american cravings in but never actually did]

another one of our cabarete favorites is fresh fresh. basically we use any excuse in the book to eat here. they do everything right! smoothies, french toast, eggs and toast, burritos, sandwiches, PEANUT BUTTER BROWNIES...everything. you can't go wrong. and there's air conditioning, which is literally a game changer out here (how sad is that). it actually almost sucks going there because you are forced to decide between so many wonderful things. or you do what i do and basically get five of everything every time. they actually kind of hate us here haha. and now i'm going to spam you with pictures and commentary.

[here we have macie chowing down on some french toast, rightfully so.]

[and here we have the holy frijoly burrito, which is a mexican delight. i've gotten it too many times to admit.]

[and here we have me with my literal favorite thing in the DR. judge me, i don't care i don't care i don't care.]

[back at the townhouse! we got macie, courtney, mary, katie, karsen, me, kaylee, and jelina.]

[we gained a lot of weight that weekend. oh, and got flash tattoos! and went hogwild with henna tattoos.]

[debbie, an old lady at our pool, recommended that we eat at lazy dog, which is one of the restaurants on the beach. really yummy flatbread pizza! also we swore we saw a celebrity there and forced jelina to go talk to him like three different times. and got a discount from the owner who happened to be with this "celebrity".]

[more fresh fresh the next day. i just love it so much here! i want to pack it in my suitcase and bring it home.]

 [scrambled eggs and toast and tea, all for 150 pesos, which is a little less than 4 bucks. you can't beat that! also we are all obsessed with this flaxseed bread. no, i'm not going to apologize for my fresh fresh ramblings.]

ummm and last but not least, we ate at another restaurant on the beach (can't remember what it's called) on our last night, while it was having a happy hour two for one deal. turns out we decided to run crazy with that deal and ordered SO much food. like somehow i talked myself into getting two pizzas because one of them was free, but at the same time i was still sharing TWO appetizers with karsen. i don't even know, things got crazy real fast and we were all dying laughing with how much food we had ordered. and our waiter was judging us hardcore and we were dying laughing at everything. people probably thought we were drunk! it was too good though.

basically, i love cabarete. i love these girls. i love food. 

th-th-th-th-that's all folks!