Winding up our DR visit

We just stopped in here at the shopping mall on our way back from a small produce market. We are going to try a few new fruits later today before heading to the ferry. Dad has his weight in Dominican candies and sweets as well as some flatbread made from yuca, manioc root. I´m expecting them to ask him for his business license since it looks like he has inventory for a store. One impresive item is a 40lb block of a treat made from cashew fruit and a honey like sugar product. A big candy bar, he calls it. I´m sure we will manage to take a dip or two in the pool before then, it is such a quick way to cool off. We will be quite a few degrees cooler up at Dad´s at Machabuca. He seems to have a fairly constant breeze and by being over a thousand feet above sea level it is cooler. Though still using a cane, I am getting around much better. My leg is still sore and my foot and ankle baloon out after a day of walking, but it goes down during the night. At the pharmacy you can purchase pills cut from one of those sealed packs and each time I have gotten a stronger Ibuprophen, the 800mg are really big.
We are looking forward to our last lunch with the family today. Both daughters and their families as well as the son all join our hosts for lunch and we may even see the grandmother again today. It is a very big, fun, friendly, family affair. You can see Jose and Argentina light up to have their children and grandchildren around them.
What an incredible experience this has been! To be imersed in the local life. Just this morning we talked about how different from being stuck in a hotel room inbetween our sojourns out and about.
Arlee and Shaun will never forget their stay out in Romana at Casa del Campo. I think they have had a wonderful experience that will long outlast the mosquito bites they take back as memories, of which they have quite a few!
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Catch you later,
Sharle