New Crib

After two and a half months in the very mediocre Marriot Hotel, we finally moved into our new place about 2 weeks ago. It's pretty nice: 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, balcony, decent-sized kitchen, distant view of the ocean, fully furnished, centrally located. The American people sure are a generous lot! We moved in on a Tuesday and all of our stuff from DC and NY was delivered over the next 2 days. Some of our things had been in storage for the last year. It had been separated from us for so long that we had completely forgotten about some of it.

The hardest part of living in the hotel for so long was not having a kitchen. It gets really tiresome eating in restaurants or hotel room service for every single meal. I still have my Dominican Plate of the Day everyday for lunch, but we've been cooking otherwise. We discovered this really tricked out farmer's market about a 15min drive from our place. For about 15 bucks US, you can get 3 full bags worth of incredibly fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables. We've even stumbled upon a few odd-looking fruits we've never seen before and aren't even available in the US (some of which for good reason). Taking advanatage of how cheap and fresh everything is, we've been making fresh fruit and veggie juice nearly every morning.

Overall, we have a pretty good set up here... and plenty of room for visitors.

Below are a few scenes from our new pad.