Thursday, April 8, 2010

Hola Cuba 2010!

Here are the Cuba pictures (a select few anyways!) . It took over an hour to upload all of them because some of them were taken with my dSLR and the files are mammoth! Enjoy!


Noooooooo....don't leave me behind!

Now THIS is how you enjoy your Rum Punch!
My friend Vicki at our first a la carte dinner. The steakhouse. I couldn't eat anything...damn braces!
Me at the steakhouse. We were really trying to do our best with no hair products and no makeup!
The beach! I'm pretty sure this was one of the +35 days!

This was the main pool...so refreshing. But by the third day there the temerature was matching the ocean so it was like a warm bath!

Lounging by the pool. This is only day 2...look at our tans!
I need to find out what this flower is called. When I was trying to take a picture of it, a resort employee came out to me and said, "careful, look" he shook the branch and 3 wasps came flying out from one flower! So then I just HAD to try and get a picture of one!
Hibiscus? This was in someone's yard in the town of Varadero.
The flowers matched my top!
Classic yellow taxi...a little different from the ones I saw in New York!
So many old cars in Cuba, was happy to find this one by the ocean!
This poor puppy looked so hot and hungry. I woke him up from his nap to get this picture. Probably wasn't a great idea to be crawling around the sidewalk in Varadero...oh well the photo turned out really good!
We stopped at Al Capone's house outside Varadero on the way home. Vicki picked up this coconut drink, it wasn't ripe and made me want to throw up

So instead of the rank coconut juice, we got this bartender to put a Miami Vice inside! Delish

Enjoying a slice of personally made pizza! I love pizza!
This is Hector the pizza chef, he always was happy to see us and made us whatever we wanted. Such a friendly guy!

This is the start of the day where is was a little cloudy and a little windy. We tried every drink on the menu...hilarity and heartbreak followed.
This means trouble Drunk.
Drunk
Drunk, yet surprisingly coordinated

At the Cuban a la carte. This was NOT the lobster I'm used to. Can you tell by the look on my face?

Here we go! Jeep Safari!
Swimming in the freshwater cave, you can see my feet! That's nearly 6 feet down! The water was so clear and refreshing!
Cuban lunch on the ranch, amazing!
Us with our crew Shelley and Cody from Nova Scotia. Cody was a great driver!
Dolphins!

He wasn't the best kisser....
Our favourites, Forbes and Alexis (pronounced al-e-see) resort staff. They were so much fun and taught us dance lessons etc. We had lunch with Forbes and another fellow Ivan and learned so much about Cuba and being young in Cuba. We also taught them a lot about Canada and traveling! We were so sad to be leaving all the awesome people!
About 10 minutes before we said goodbye to our sunglasses in the Caribbean :(
Dancing at the show in the theatre. Literally minutes before we had to get on the bus to leave! We had to get one more dance in!