January 2022--Dominican Republic With our kids

                                      Trip to the Dominican Republic-- Jan. 3- Jan. 8th

 On January 3, 2022 Jed and I, along with our kids and their spouses went on a trip to the Dominican Republic.  We had all saved up for about 3 years to go on a trip to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary!

Day 1, Jan. 3, 2022

We flew to the Dominican Republic

                                                         

    

                                                      First on the agenda, visiting the beach!

                                                  The resort we stayed in was pretty awesome!

Dominican Republic

Day 2, January 4th

We just stayed around the resort and played on the beach, etc

And then that evening when it was time to go out to eat, us girls had a

surprise for the boys.  We had brought matching shirts for them to wear,

 without them knowing they would be matching the others.

We gave them to them to wear that night.  

We suggested they would look nice in a polo shirt.  

When they arrived at the restaurant, one by one, they looked

around and realized they matched the other men in our group.

They pretended to be unimpressed and maybe even a little mad

but we knew they were amused :).  

Dominican Republic

Day 3, January 5th

On day 3 we traveled to Santa Domingo.

It was a gorgeous town with a wealth of history.  

And when we were through exploring the town,

we were able to visit the LDS temple.

It was beautiful!!!

And then we got to "enjoy" a very long bus ride back to out resort.

It was a good day!!!

Dominican Republic, Day 4, Jan. 6th

On Day 4 we went on a little boat trip

To San Raphael Del Yuma

It was so much fun!!!

If you notice we are missing a few of the family, 

it's because Deco & Kristi were kind of sick this day :(

And, Jeremy and Heather opted out of this trip!!

When we got back everyone took it easy on the beach!!

Dominican Republic, Day 5, Jan. 7th

Resort in Punta Cana

This was the day that we just hung out at the resort and the beach

We wanted to get a picture of all of us together and Kristi arranged for a photographer to come 

and take the pictures for us on the beach.  Some how (?) we all ended up with matching 

shirts and there we were all on the beach all "matchy matchy" again.  So fun!

And then we decided to continue our day matching and

went to the restaurant in our awesome, matching shirts!

Day 6,  (Jan. 8th) was our day to fly home.

Boy, we had had fun and love our family.

We all had to have a COVID test before we 

could get on the plane.

We all passed and no one had to be 

left in the Dominican!!

 But we did have to leave Kristi and Jeremy behind.

Their flight had been cancelled.  

They had to stay and extra night and

 part of the next day.  They weren't too

sad about having an extra day added to their vacation!

We all arrive home safe and found

that the kids were all doing fine!!