Wow! Did I have a good time two weeks ago in the Dominican. Met a local guy, who worked at the hotel I stayed at, although, that wasn't the intention of my vacation. Suffice to say he speaks about 50 words of english, and I speak about 50 words of Spanish. That alone made the vacation that much more interesting. I won't go into the dirty details on this public forum, but it was certainly enough for me want to go back for more. Hehe! Good thing I have a few more vacation days left this year. Already planning a 4-dayer in the next few weeks. Anyway, we exchanged phone numbers, and holy smacks you think communicating with 50 known words is hard enough? Try doing it over the phone. We have just, in the past day figured out how to advise of each others' e-mail addresses and are now communicating via "Computadora" using the translation application. I write in english and convert to spanish before sending and he visa versa. It's not as nice as talking on the phone, but at least we can have a conversation. All-in-all, this relationship has the liklehood of going nowhere due to distance, however it will be fun for a few months or so for both of us. The opportunity to leave the snow befhind every 6-8 weeks is reason enough to continue the fun.