Dominican Republic day 2

Today is the one day that Colin was looking forward to this trip.  I, on the other hand, am not as thrilled.  We started preparing last night and hopefully do not get sea sick.  Our boat for the morning . . .

. . . and we are off to the deep blue ocean.  Chi-Chi, Lucky, and Eli would hopefully find us some big fish and avoid any big waves!

Hiring a guide for a private fishing charter is out of my budget so we joined a group shared fishing group.  I have never been deep sea fishing and really had no idea how it worked.  I sort of thought we would get a point, stop the boat, and cast a line.  Well, I was wrong.  Instead once we got a certain distance from shore, we threw out the lines and the boat just drove around for 3 hours.  I think it is called trolley fishing?  Colin was a bit disappointed.  Let it be known that I caught the first fish of the trip!  

 

Oh you can imagine how that set with the boy.  At this point, we both became a bit competitive.  I just hoped that Colin would catch a fish because if not it would be a less than fun rest of the day/trip.  Thankfully, as our boat was headed back to land,  Colin's reel had a bite!  The guide grabbed this waist thing to help him reel in the "big one".  The reel was bending as he reeled for several minutes. 

He had to work long and hard to get this one on the boat!  It was a nice Mahi-Mahi that weighed about 15 pounds.  

As you can see I might have had the first catch but it was much smaller than the last catch of the day!

I really did have a great time being on the boat and neither of us were sick so that made it much more enjoyable too.  We headed back to shore and could not wait to jump in the pool and take a nice long nap.

Last night the hostess Ciara at Noodle & Thread was super nice.  She chatted with us again and talked about being a Hyatt Globalist.  She offered to make us a dinner reservation for tonight so we took her up on the offer to go to Waves.  It is located on the Zilara side so knew it would be a nice dinner with no kids.  It seems that there are more bars at these two resorts than restaurants so the wait can be a little long but not bad if you plan.  Waves is a steak house so Colin was thrilled.  My filet was great but the real standout was the sauce on those baked potatoes . . . I was wanting more!  I don't know what it was but it was like a sour cream meets hollandaise sauce that was super yummy.

The portions are small which I like but since we had time Colin wanted to try another restaurant so we went for Brando's which was French Tahitian cuisine.  I had Colin at onion soup and he liked the fact that he was carded to enter the restaurant since it was 18+.  The menu looked really good as did the food at the tables around us but a lot of things had foie gras . . . that just isn't my thing.  I decided to just have dessert there while Colin ordered a full meal!  In fact all the desserts sounded good so when asked for my order, I said I would like one of each . . . there were five!  And he brought one of each and we shared.  I thought the décor was really nice and loved the chandeliers . . .

We enjoyed the cooler weather and headed back to the room as it had been a long day . . . at least it was fun!