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The Pros and Cons of a Beach Vacation

7/15/2013

 
Cons
  • Mosquitos
  • Sand fleas
  • Thighs, calves, ankles, toes polka-dotted with mosquito and sand flea bites
  • Itchy skin slathered in chemical cocktail of 50+ SPF, bug spray and calamine lotion
  • Strange kids jumping loudly into pools over and over and over again
  • Appendages slammed between adjustable lounge chair parts
  • Air conditioner that sounds like diesel engine
  • Sweltering heat when you turn off air conditioner that sounds like diesel engine
  • Suspicious salad eaten at beach hut
  • Nausea
  • Cost of local doctor to treat nausea
  • Being forced to subsist on piña coladas (also add to Pros) 
  • Forgetting chemical cocktail after third piña colada 
  • Sunburn
  • Inadvertent salt/sand exfoliation of sunburn
Pros 
Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic
Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic
Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic
Pros outweigh cons every time.
Or, rather, discomfort fades and beauty remains. 



nicole
7/31/2013 02:37:01 pm

Great photos, I am a little smitten with the guard chicken...


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