Day 4
Woke up to rain. Nice warm summer rain though (although it's actually winter in Dominican Republic). Went for breakfast. Afterwards, still raining so what do we do? We jump into the pool for a swim. Water was warm and so nice. Sean called the tour rep to arrange a meeting to collect tickets. We went back to change clothes before lunch, and watched some TV too.
Lunch was great as always and next to us sat Richard Gere (OK not the real one). After lunch we sat by the pool again, watching the world go by, and the rain continue to pour down. Met Kristen from Coco-tours in the hotel lobby at 3.00, after some initial confusion in identifying one another. We'd already decided on which tours, and reserved dates in advance by email, so we received a 10% disount. We paid for all the tours and chatted a bit. She's from Norway originally but has lived in the Dominican Republic for 11 years. She commented on the rain today and mentioned that she'd never seen a winter like it since she'd been on the island. Even though it's been raining all day the temperature is still a respectable 25degrees C.
We had a snack in the snack bar, spent some time lazing at the Hotel Mambo bar (although Karolina is still alchohol free at this point), then went for our tennis booking at 5pm. Tennis was interesting, the rain poured down, and we aren't any Björn Borgs. 
The balls were so waterlogged they didn't bounce at all well. We noticed that the court opposite was empty, obviously someone had sense and didn't bother turning up for their booking. We laughed so much, then came even worse rain, it was hard and heavy, so we stood under the shelter on a bench kissing - really romantic. When it calmed down and we'd had enough exercise we returned the raquets and balls to the reception, and bought a necklace in the shape of a turtle for Karolina. We then headed back to the room, where we watched the pool tournament on the TV.
Went for dinner, where we met Tavares again who was back from his short break. Afterwards, we watched the entertainment and had a few drinks. It was great. The two tallest men did a parody of Dirty Dancing, and there was some more dancing and a devil/angel sketch which put a smile on everyones face. We danced alone on stage before anyone else - romantic! We went to bed quite early because we had an early start for the trip in the morning.
