Scooting between volcanoes and relaxing in a watering hole

Up at 630 after an awesome night of sleep. Finally! We were going to risk breakfast at these restaurants so we rented a two person scooter to tour the island for $40. We headed to Maderas Volcano first but the roads weren't paved and our vehicle wasn't ready to off-road. Then we came across a nice hotel and restaurant, where Jill and Todd probably stayed, and we ate breakfast. We had two egg sandwiches w/ cheese and they put garlic butter on them. Pretty damn good. Andy broke a metal piece of the bike because he thought (says) it was part of the pedestal so he leaned it against a wall. When we came out after breakfast someone had stood the bike on the real pedestal. Great it's not too broken, we might get away w/ it. Back on the scooter to tour the larger island. Up to Altagracia and down and around to Moyogalpa which is the main city. We took our more cash and came across a pizza place. Yes please! We filled up w/ pizza and real papaya shakes since this would be the only real food until we leave the island. It was delish.

Andy drove us around until this point and I took over. This was my first time driving a scooter so of course I drove it off the road. Not much. I was turning it around and hit the gas instead of the brakes. No damage was done except to my ego. I might have cracked the dashboard but I don't think that was me. I drove us to Ojo de Agua, the natural spring swimming hole. It was beautiful. Fresh refreshing water, small fishes swimming around, and large plants growing everywhere. We had a coconut for $1 to compare to the ones in Belize. The water had an interesting tang to it and the meat was yum.  There was a rope swim so we had to try it out. Andy of course did a back flip and I did the old fashioned cannonball. Not everyone else had such luck. One girl pulled her arm out of her socket and another didn't make it to the water- she fell on her feet then ass. It was time to get out of there before blood spills.

Not sure how we drove around most of the day but we were back at our hotel, Hospedaje Buena Vista, by 330. I was going to relax on the beach but close to sunset there are millions of tiny bugs swarming around the sun. Fine I'll just take a cold shower.  Andy Tom and I went to dinner at the one and only good restaurant, plus the power was out and the hotel had it's own generator. The Dutch gals stayed because they are on a budget although it costs the same as last night's dinner. For some reason I'm needing to carbo overload because I had to go for the lasagna  this place can't get it wrong right? It was good, and so were the two drinks of Flor de Cauco rum straight up. We really enjoyed our dinner and cocktails. So much that Tom asked our waiter for a small bottle of rum to go. Of course the guy said, and the cost wasn't on the bill. When we went to pay Tom was trying to figure out how much to give the guy for the rum and the waiter got flustered and said just give me $8. Totally legit.

Back to the hotel and the power is still out. No worries, we have rum. We didn't have any glasses so Andy cut open two coconuts and we mixed the coconut water w/ the rum and it was goooood. The moon was out in full force, lighting up everything. We kicked back and sipped our drinks and chatted. Time for bed, up at 440am to catch the first ferry.