Saturday walk and a new Parque

We like to walk down along the coast to Colonial San Juan, it is probably six or seven miles round trip, so it is for Saturdays.  This week we saw a new park along the sea, it previouly was fenced off but it is now opened up.  There are exercise stations and a beach area, very cool for here, most of the coast is not suitable for recreation here in Santo Domingo.  Now when visitors come they can walk to the beach and get some sun and water.  Or a work  out if they want.



Not a bad spot to have about six blocks away.

I will include this picture of a memorial to the Mirabel sisters, the Butterflies, who spurred the country to overthrough the dictator Trujillo in the mid 60's.  You can look it up as the hisorty of the Dominican Republic is interesting and lots happened not so long ago. 

In the colonial zone there was a demonstration of local buggies, they were being painted and fixed up.  We haven't had the buggy tour around the colonial zone yet, but we will one day.  We passed by a shop that Meg should own. We ran into some missionary friends down there and ended up buying fabric for a suit for me, unfortunately the tailor was not in, so we will have to go back again. My suit is old but it wasn't my idea to switch.  We had a good lunch at a restaurant closer to our Casa, la Dulcerie.  We had fun there, many young people on their phones and chatting, well-to-do and stylish.



Meg wouldn't even have to change the style of clothes.

Our friends, the Atkinsons, live above the Almacen del Obispo, the Bishop's storehouse.  Elder Atkinson does Humanitarian projects and has had the service time of the CCM Elders going into filling these kitchen kits, for people displaced by disasters.  They were cleaned out by flooding here in Santo Domingo in the early fall.