Santo Domingo Album 1
Photos from my faculty development trip to the Dominican Republic and La Universidad Dominicana O y M in May 2005.

   

View from our hotel in Santo Domingo, looking southeast
View from the hotel, looking southwest, Caribbean is just 200 ft away
Diego Columbus' building, son of Christopher, first Viceroyal
Remains of original city wall, protected Santo Domingo in the 1500's
Restaurants now beside the Viceroyal's building
Statue of Christopher Columbus in Santo Domigo
Wesley and Crisobal Colon
No way for a rubio like me to not stick out here!
Ruins of a magnificant monastery from the early 1500s
Shelly outside the Presidential Palace
The Presidential Palace (home) of current President, built by Trujillo
At lunch with Prof Bolívar Troscoso, the Director of the Tourism pr...
Entertainment at lunch, dancing / meringue
Dancing on a bottle!
Our beautiful dancers!
In "La Meso de la Cava," a restaurant situated in a cave
Wesley and Shelly in the Cave
Shelly ready for our evening outing, Sat May 14th
Wesley with Prof Antonio Shulterbrandt and his wife
Prof Shulterbrandt, Wesley and Shelly
Eating with friends at El Meso de la Cava
Our dinner party Saturday night
Yanik Sanchez (who works for O y M in a simliar capacity to Wesley)
Our table at the restaurant
Dominican Surfers
Big waves!
Shelly and Yanik at Boca Chica
Wesley and Shelly at Boca Chica, the restaurant where we ate
Shell decorations at the entrance to the restaurant
Shell decorations close-up
Shelly enjoys a Pina Colada
Cover of the menu at our restaurant in Boca Chica
Yanik with "un limonada" (looks just like a Pina Colada though!)
What a view by our table at Boca Chica!
Wesley explaining something in Spanish to Yanik
Girls enjoying swimming by the restaurant at Boca Chica