Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

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  • Travel Days

    Anyone who has done any amount of traveling knows that the days where you actually do the traveling suck. Because COVID complicates just about everything, we needed to be at… Read more

  • Santo Domingo

    Because we had to rearrange all of our flights, twice, we were no longer able to fly out of Punta Cana. The cheapest option we could find to get back… Read more

  • Bye Bye Bavaro

    Thankfully we all quickly recovered from our run-in with COVID. It knocked us out of commission for a couple of days. Everyone experienced something slightly different: I had a fever… Read more

  • On a positive note…

    Late last week we realized we only had a few days left in the tropics and decided that wasn’t enough for us. We did some quick research and decided to… Read more

  • Cirque de Soleil

    On the drive from the airport to our villa on the first day we passed these huge black and white striped circus tents. At first I assumed it was a… Read more

  • Visitors

    Mom and Jim arrived mid-week and have been soaking up as much sun as possible while they are here. We have quickly oriented them on the lay of the land,… Read more

  • Halfway

    Monday evening marked the halfway point of our trip. So far we have spent two weeks just being. There’s no agenda here, no plan to the day. Nothing to do.… Read more

  • I wear my sunglasses…all the time

    This has been a fairly laid back week. Jacob managed to get an infection in his eye and now spends his days wearing his sunglasses in the dark bedroom. He… Read more

  • Bravo Bavaro

    Saturday we bought a pass to the Iberostar Bavaro Suites resort. The villa we are staying in is inside the Iberostar complex. This means that we can opt-in to the… Read more

  • Lazy Days

    The kids are exhausted. Turns out swimming three plus hours a day will wear you out. To avoid spending the whole day listening to them whinge and whine we spent… Read more