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May 17 Anna and Aaron's Wedding in Punta CanaWe went to Punta Cana to celebrate our friend's Mike and Carol's son's wedding to Anna. Johnson and I had a good time there.
My luggage did not make it down from Toronto for a few days. That was somewhat uncomfortable but Sunwing paid me US$90 for two days of waiting but we blew it at the casino right away.
The hotel, Bavaro Princess, is quite nice in many ways. The rooms are all suites with eight units per building. The grounds are top notch with beautiful gardens. There are peacocks, flamingoes, geese, ducks, chickens wandering all over the place.
There are a number of Princess hotels near to each other and one can use their facilities as well.
The beach is 5 star as well except that there are a lot of people there. You can go for very long walks on very fine sand.
The food was not as good as Dominican standards were thought to be. It was 4 star. However, there was a fire there recently and four restaurants burnt down so maybe there are some issues.
The wedding was attended by about 24 people. Unfortunately it rained all that day so the ceremony could not take place by the gazebo near the Sea. Instead it was performed near the lobby in a special covered area. There was a dinner at the Chopin restaurant and there was also another wedding party at the same time. The group had some Belluz people from Thunder Bay; they had 38 people there but were somewhat loud.
The weather was typically humid and hot but the rain did cool things off a bit. Johnson and I did not go on any excursions but liked to go take pictures everywhere, play ping pong, fumble at tennis, gamble, swim and walk the beach.
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