We went to Dominican Republic for our honeymoon. Kind of a random place to end up I suppose, but it was beautiful! It wasn’t the smoothest vacation weve had and I will explain.
Beginning with a 7 hour drive to Las Vegas, since that is where we flew out of. Arriving at the airport and not being able to get our tickets. I had fraud on my card two months prior and the card I originally bought the tickets with no longer existed. Long story short.. we had to buy new tickets. Now before we left we put 1500 bucks in our checking account thinking that would be more than enough to handle us while we are gone and like 1000 dollars cash. With another ticket purchase we were down to 500 bucks in our account. The said the refund should take about 5 business days with memorial holiday. We barely make our flight, have a layover in florida from about 11pm to 4am. Flew out and arrive in the D.R. about 8am.
Once we arrive to our place we check in, everything goes fine ($250.00 for the week because of a family time share) and then they say that will be 1800 dollars. (side note: I called multiple times prior ensuring that this was not an all inclusive resort. All three times they said no it was optional. Our plan was to buy groceries and eat out.) It was not an option. Normally we would just pay it, however we were a little short with the earlier mishap of purchasing new airfare. So me and Jordan tried to figure out some sort of plan; couldn’t transfer from savings because it was a weekend. Credit card limit only had a thousand, cash was for our excursions, etc. The hotel employee started calling around to see if there were any openings around that we could go to instead. They found another place but it wasn’t available til Monday (it was Saturday) if we stayed at our current place for two nights it would make it so we couldn’t even afford the second place.
Jordan decided to call his dad. Their wedding gift to us was going to be new couches.. instead we had to have them cover this because to say the least, we were in a pickle. Took forever to get a hold of him because no one answers an out of area number and our cell phones didn’t work.
After being in their lobby for about 4 hours we finally got checked in. Everything after that was honestly INCREDIBLE. We stayed in punta cana for 6 days and then 2 days in the capital.
Us in the capital of Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
Visiting some of the historical sites in the capital
Flaming Gorge with Jessie and Garrett
Took Ryan, Alex, Jake, and Kim to the Famous Preston Rodeo
Went hiking
Went to the South Jordan Derby
We went out to California to visit my mom and little brother
We had our annual Halloween Party
Jordan, Andy, and Justin did a great job!
